Your Rage Is Real.
The anger you are feeling about the world, motherhood, burnout, injustice. It is not something to manage away. It is something to express, explore, and transform into clarity and conscious action.
Rage Is Not the Problem
Maternal rage is now recognized by clinicians as a legitimate presenting issue in the perinatal period and beyond. But rage is not limited to mothers. Parents of all genders, therapists, activists, and anyone paying attention to the state of the world are experiencing real, justified anger.
The problem is not the rage itself. The problem is that we have been taught to suppress it, manage it, medicate it away. We have been told to breathe it down, smile through it, and "stay calm." But suppressed rage does not disappear. It gets stored in our bodies, our nervous systems, our relationships.
What if we stopped trying to manage our rage and started playing with it instead? What if we created a space to express it fully, safely, and without judgment? What if clarity came not from forcing calm, but from moving through the fire?
Why Rage Rooms Fall Short
The Problem with Pure Catharsis
Rage rooms offer mechanical catharsis: you smash things, scream, and leave. Research shows this can actually reinforce anger patterns rather than transform them. Why? Because venting without integration is like opening a pressure valve briefly, then slamming it shut. The pressure remains.
As psychologist Rollo May observed, "Merely experiencing or acting out is not sufficient for cure. Experiencing is essential, but if it occurs without changing the patient's concepts, symbols, and myths, the experiencing is truncated."
Our Approach Is Different
Expression + Externalizing
Screaming in the woods, throwing paint, Lion's Breath. The body speaks what words cannot.
Witnessing and Reflection
Your art becomes a mirror. What does it reveal about your anger? What is it trying to tell you?
Nervous System Reset
Sauna, cold plunge, and Yin yoga bring your body back to baseline. This is where integration happens.
Integration and Action
Clarity plan: what does this rage tell you? How will you move forward?
The Science Behind the Modalities
Sauna and Cold Plunge
Contrast therapy (alternating heat and cold) is evidence-based for nervous system regulation and emotional resilience.
- +Sauna lowers cortisol (stress hormone) and increases endorphins
- +Cold plunge stimulates the vagus nerve for parasympathetic activation
- +Together they reset your nervous system after emotional expression
- +Improves mood, attention, and emotional regulation
Expressive Arts and Somatic Practice
Screaming, throwing paint, and art-making become meaning-making. Paired with breathwork and yoga, these embodied practices facilitate emotional release and nervous system integration.
- +Externalizes what words cannot express through the body
- +Lion's Breath (simhasana pranayama) for primal expression and release
- +Yin yoga for clarity, integration, and nervous system reset
- +Art-making as meaning-making and embodied insight
Your Retreat Home: Fox Den Wellness
Nestled in the woods of Exton, Pennsylvania, Fox Den Wellness provides the perfect container for this work. The natural setting creates safety and permission to express what cannot be expressed in everyday life.
Woodland setting for screaming and expression
Sauna barrel and cold plunge tubs for nervous system regulation
Comfortable gathering spaces for integration and snacking
Intimate groups for deep work and authentic connection
Choose Your Path
Rage and Clarity for Therapists
Expression, Integration, Forward Motion
Late March: March 27, 11:30am-2:00pm
6 intimate spots for deep clinical exploration
Evidence-based somatic interventions you can bring to your clients
Yoga therapy, nervous system regulation, embodied compassion
Integration plan plus invitation to annual mastermind
Rage Retreat for Birthing Parents and Moms
Unlearning Shame, Understanding Systems, Harnessing Rage
Late April: April 26, 3:00pm-5:30pm
A great Mother's Day gift
12 spots for collective validation and solidarity
Unlearn the shame: Your rage is righteous, not a flaw
Understand systemic roots of maternal rage and reclaim your power
Harness your rage as fuel for conscious action and boundary-setting
Meet Kanjana Hartshorne
LCSW, C-IAYT, CCFP, Reiki Master
Founder, Healing Hearts Wellness
Kanjana Hartshorne is a licensed psychotherapist, IAYT certified yoga therapist, certified compassion fatigue professional, and Reiki Master redefining what healing can look like in the therapy room. She is the founder of Healing Hearts Wellness, a holistic group practice where she and her team of somatic and yoga therapists blend traditional talk therapy with body-based approaches to mental health such as IFS, EMDR, yoga therapy, reiki, creative arts, ecotherapy, dance movement therapy, therapeutic writing, spiritual practices, and other somatic therapy.
She leads the annual Body Compassion Project Retreat, CE workshops for therapists, and individual and couples intensives that invite people to break free from rigid systems and reconnect with their body, energy, and spirit in playful, creative, and transformative ways that honor their own beliefs and ancestral practices.
Rooted in both scholarship and spirituality, Kanjana is passionate about helping people in all bodies discover a more compassionate relationship with themselves across every layer of being: physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual. She believes therapy doesn't have to stay inside the box. It can be soulful, imaginative, and even magical.
Connect with Kanjana: healingheartswellness.com
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What Therapists and Moms Are Saying
"I have attended several delightfully crafted activities, social in spirit and vibe, fun and playful, but also a cool, authentic way to meet therapists I need in my referral and collaboration network."
Karen Smith
LCSW
"Kanjana is so knowledgeable and so engaging! I thoroughly enjoyed how informative and interactive her somatic workshop training for mom rages was and look forward to more opportunities to learn from her!"
Stephanie Berlin
LPC
"She is so personable and easy to talk to and has since become not only someone I, as a fellow group practice owner, can learn from but also a genuine friend. Creating a community where therapists feel seen, can connect, can learn together, and support one another."
Jackie Vonfeldt
LMFT
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Open FormYour Rage Deserves a Home
Spots are limited. Retreats are late April at Fox Den Wellness in Exton, Pennsylvania. Whether you are a therapist deepening your practice or a parent reclaiming your fire, there is a place for you in the woods. Your anger is valid. Your rage is righteous. Let us transform it together.