Transforming Fire: Women Using Anger Creatively

by Kathleen Fischer

Anger is not the opposite of love, but an intrinsic element of loving well. This book explains anger as a complex reality with physical, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual components. Women are shown how to understand anger by naming it, choosing to feel it, then integrating it with love. Instead of suppressing anger, they are shown how to transform its fire, find its creative spiritual power, and direct its energies toward life-giving ends. Drawing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809139022
• ISBN13: 9780809139026
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Transforming Fire: Women Using Anger Creatively

I have found this book to be a wonderful tool to understand my anger. I look forward to finishing the last chapther and taking the steaps in my life to walk with anger in a more healty way.

Anger as a gateway to inner self

This book should be required for every women with boundary issues, stifled rage, or even difficulty with confrontation. Teacher, therapist and theologian Kathleen Fischer looks at the various myths surrounding women and anger in Western, particularly religious, culture, and does an excellent job of deconstructing the myths, placing anger into context and suggesting methods for integrating and dealing with this inevitable facet of life. Especially helpful was her section on forgiveness, in which she both warns readers as to the dangers of forgiving too soon, and shares the painful, but liberating journey toward resolution. The anecdotes she shares, either personal, or from women who have shared them with her, are very helpful and interesting. An excellent, reassuring and healing work, and one I am very glad is on my bookshelf.

Well Worth the Wait

I had awaited with anticipation the publication of Kathleen Fischer's latest book Transforming Fire because I knew if anyone could help me deal with the anger that is so much a part of my life as a woman and as a Catholic, she would be the one. And I was not disappointed. Bringing together in one book the best and latest there is to know about anger, she deftly discards old death-dealing ways of viewing anger and offers healthy, "holy" ways to use this anger for both personal growth and social concerns. I came away with quite a few good tidbits! Best of all, it was nice to hear a few of her own personal stories--they added a richness to the text.