Reviews
Rageheart smacks negative thoughts to the curb, explodes energy and sets the caged beast free. What will it do for you?
Rageheart has given me a few EASY tools to use throughout the day to get from a DEFCON 5 to a 4… or a 3… without having to meditate for an hour.
Jack Campbell
Elevated Consulting LTD
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
I just finished the Rage on Annihilation and my life has been forever changed in the best way possible.
Not the easiest, not the least painful, but the best for my life.
It is so obvious now that all the “stuff” I’ve been feeling for decades and decades is anger. Just like you I was proud of my lack of anger.
I’ve convinced myself that my anger is hurt, or sadness, or something else acceptable.
As a kid I was sent to my room and not allowed out until I could turn my anger into happiness. Even if I displayed anything close to anger I was sent to my room. Obviously I spent a lot of time in my room until I was old enough to learn how to shove that energy down and put on a smile.
After working with the Rage today and energy is coming up I’m realizing it’s just anger. And when I’m able to acknowledge it truthfully as anger … this tremendous peace comes over me. So deeply profound I have no words for it.
This new ability to reprocess energy just might be the best thing to truly let me live a peaceful life. A life I had given up hope on having.
Such a profound realization and wouldn’t have happened without you and Rageheart.
As always I stand in awe of the work.
Maria
Doctor of Audiology
What more can there be said other than it works!?! It’s absolutely brilliant that many of the techniques and practices are designed to work with your eyes wide open when you are in the trenches dealing with the stress and anxieties of modern life.
Who knew that by focusing on your body and sensation it would help me get out of my head and process accumulated tension in my body? It’s so simple and obvious, yet genius! Now I understand what people mean when they say BE YOURSELF!
David Ducatenzeiler
Product Manager
I just became a baby beast … working the program.
I woke up this morning with zero plans.
Sat down at the computer to create a new blog article.
Next thing I know I’m in a great conversation with ChatGPT. One thing leads to another and darn if I didn’t just create a new novel business that has never been created on the face of the Earth. What? Yes.
In half a day I created the entire business structure, business plan, and business name. Also in that same half a day I created the framework an entirely new online course to complement the business.
My life for the past two years has been in nervous system over function and burnout. Suicidal? Yes, I’ve had those thoughts.
Only by doing your Rageheart Academy has my nervous system calmed down enough to allow functioning at a level not known for decades.
I cannot thank you enough for you, for what you have been through in life, and your intellect to create a program for me to get my life back on track.
I stand in awe of what can happen if we just listen to our bodies.
Maria
Doctor of Audiology
The exercises really help me to sleep.
Nick G
Subscriber
Rageheart was an excellent course. The overall flow of the lessons was well structured. It first started with the basics, then progressed to more advanced practices while supporting those practices with the fundamental skills learned in the beginning, and then it finally returned to some of the basic practices again albeit with additional complexity to promote further growth.
I think the constant emphasis on reinforcing the most basic principles of orienting, grounding, and awareness of bodily sensations throughout the course was extremely helpful. I started finding myself reiterating these reminders to myself to feel the ground and orient to my surroundings as I went about my day, and then it started to become embodied unconsciously.
Additionally, the wide variety of different exercises allowed me to see not only what clicked with my system but also what didn’t work for me.
Another thing I found helpful was the guidance to toggle between periods of engagement with the techniques and then corresponding periods of relaxation and awareness. This was useful in helping me to discern what effects the practices had on my system.
I came into Rageheart with knowledge of some basic nervous system practices, but the techniques I’ve learned throughout this course have strengthened my bodily awareness and have provided me with methods to help myself restructure my biology in a way that assists in promoting my healing and overall wellness.
David Newman
Engineer
I have to share that your answers are of a very high level and also that when we met, it felt to me as if you have at least 5 years of experience with one-on-one work.
I also really like your work style. The way you teach the material in a funny, light, fun, creative and simple way.
Israel D
Rageheart Client
Benefits include…
Feeling better, more grounded, and in control.
Not letting stress, anxiety, or challenging emotions run my experience.
Getting back to myself and feeling “good”.
Not stuck as often feeling shitty.
Putting into practice identifying how I feel, experiencing the feeling, working with the feeling, and ultimately state change.
Becoming familiar – and ok with – my emotions.
Releasing pent up – or current – frustration, stress, anxiety, etc.
Badass tools to mobilize energy and emotions.
Jon
Copywriter
I’ve been loving the rages!
Not only do they help me to release survivor stress I’ve built up over the years, I also find myself drawing on them when I work with my clients.
Today’s rage 46 has surprised me, finally the penny dropped.
I realised that as a child meal times were very stressful for me and I do have digestive issues now as an adult!
It felt really good to begin to connect the brain stem with the gut and interweaving it with thoughts/sensations of love and safety.
Thank you!
I am wondering if I’d be able to put a link to Rageheart on our website in our Resources for our clients.
We are a private practice that helps people deal with addictions as well as other mental health issues.
I can’t predict how many people will commit to the Rageheart programme but I thought I’d try as it is so good.
Petra C
Addiction Therapist
…harder than I expected, but once I got used to it… it silenced my mind like never before.
Logan Hobson
Copywriter
I have completed my rage 5 or the beginner stage and I have to say, it’s a great programme helping me learn how to be in my body. I just did the pendulum and I experienced interesting sensations. Thank you for your work.
Helena
Construction
This morning I randomly woke up with a knot of stress in my chest that quickly snared my mind and dragged me into low key spiraling.
After a little bit of time I collected myself and dipped into my regulating Rageheart “toolkit”. I started orienting, using multitasking awareness, and then pendulated between those resources and the sensation of the knot in my chest.
After a little bit of time I started yawning uncontrollably as tears rolled down my face. Now? Sensation is gone and I’m peacefully moving on with my day.
Jon
Copywriter
I’ve been doing the somatic work for quite some time, but John’s particular way of presenting the information and approaching the process resonates well with me. He just really gets it.
He provides personal examples which help to connect the work to real life scenarios, but he doesn’t impose his experience on the overall process, allowing me to use the tools provided to work through the particulars of my situation.
He is also quite attuned to minor subtleties in the process, and he doesn’t promote a one-size-fits-all approach – he emphasizes the importance of tuning in to your own felt sense and using that to determine what is most needed in the moment.
David Newman
Engineer
This works 10x better than meditation for me.
If you’re like me and into the self-help and mindfulness worlds, you’ve probably tried a lot of things to find productivity, inner peace, clarity, or escape from your trauma.
I’ve tried breathwork, transcendental meditation (yes, I learned it from a Master here in Tokyo), and so much more, but nothing really did much. Like I’d feel at ease for a few minutes, and then the same stress or lack of focus would come back if I wasn’t spending half my day doing some kind of mindfulness exercise.
That was until I heard the idea of ‘survival stress’, why it matters more than anything else you might have been told, and how to get rid of it. This is a whole ‘nother take on how to deal with your feelings without suppressing them or trying to push them away like so many meditations do.
Rageheart has really changed my outlook on self-help, mindfulness, and life in general. I highly recommend anyone to sign up and see if anything that John Wood has to say resonates with the way you’ve been feeling or feel has been lacking from what you’ve been trying.
I was one of the first people to join in last year, and can’t recommend it enough.
Logan Hobson
Copywriter
Rageheart Rocks! I love listening to the Rageheart podcast. John Wood is brilliant in the way he presents and teaches about nervous system healing. John adds a level of fun creativity unsurpassed by any other podcast.
Also, I was ‘dead’ and now I am ‘alive’ since joining Rageheart Academy and signing up for the Daily Growl.
Feeling safe in my body now has changed my life in so many ways because of Rageheart!
I highly recommend all of John Woods creativity.
Gayla
Nurse
Just had an Ayahuasca level release that felt like a seizure doing a rage there, holy fuck 😂
it’s mad, I’ve always felt so much emotion just bubbling under the surface but never had a true release like that before
felt… productive
“oh shit this stuff actually works”
Made me very motivated to dive in even more
It’s kinda fun right, getting the “hit” of it haha
Jack Campbell
Elevated Consulting
If you think Rageheart will solve your life’s problems and challenges, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.
Rageheart does ABSOLUTELY nothing to solve your problems and challenges.
In fact, I’m still dealing problems and challenges. Misunderstanding with the wife and kids. Disappointed clients, unexpected expenses. You name it. In fact, I’m certain I’m going to face bigger problems and challenges as I go through life.
However, thanks to Rageheart, I don’t get carried away with those problems and challenges anymore. When I’ done with work, I don’t carry the anxiety and burden of deadlines and nightmare clients on my back.
I can let go the moment I leave my office.
And when I’m home I can be totally present with my family.
When I have misunderstandings with people I know, I can deal with it without getting carried away. And once the matter is over, I’m back to being as cool as a sea breeze.
I don’t carry the stress and drama with me. I don’t play the whole scene again and again in my head.
Like I said, calm and cool as a sea breeze almost instantly.
And I can do ALL that thanks to Rageheart.
SP
Copywriter
It’s better than talk therapy.
Talk therapy is often $150-200 an hour.
I think it has its place, but it’s quite limited as well.
Trauma isn’t intellectual but somatic.
If you can learn to get into the workings of the nervous system and release the stored emotional and physical energy, you won’t have to work with your thoughts anymore – they simply won’t be present in a bothersome way.
This program helps you reconnect with yourself energetically (not intellectually), and it provides tools that can be used all throughout the day, allowing you to realign your own system without someone else’s help.
For all these reasons, I feel that it’s far more useful, cost-effective, and powerful at bringing more wholeness into one’s life.
David Newman
Engineer
I’m not sure if I was meant to respond to your email, but I felt compelled to do so.
This morning, I tried the technique you described—right here in my bedroom on the first floor. Although my feet weren’t directly on the ground or Earth per se, the experience was profoundly different from my usual gratitude meditation practice, which I’ve been doing for the past four or five years.
Today felt different. My room seemed to come alive—the spinning fan, the walls, the ceiling, my bed, my diaries, my computer, my handbag—everything that surrounds me each day. I could feel my breath, my feet, and my body as an integral part of this space. As I sat with this awareness, tears rolled down my cheeks. For the first time, I realized how protected and loved I am, even by the inanimate things in my life.
Most days, I wake up feeling overwhelmed by fear, insecurity, and a deep sense of terror. It’s often difficult for me to even step out of my room in the mornings. But today, something shifted. This practice may truly change things for me.
Thank you for sharing this with me. I am deeply grateful.
P.S. The technique may seem simple, but it is anything but. To remain still, to let my eyes slowly travel over everything in my room, it is almost unbearable. There is a quiet ache in the act, yet an undeniable beauty too. It feels as if, all these years, every object, even the walls themselves, have been waiting patiently to be seen. This room, where I sit now, is the same room that held me as a child. It has changed a lot since then, other family members have lived in it.
Popi
Artist
I have spent 30 years trying every meditation technique out there and nothing has helped me like The Rageheart Academy and The Rumble has over the last five months. (not years)!!
Gayla
Nurse
Burn Your Self-Help Books… Get Rageheart Instead
The tools and exercises inside Rageheart changed my life in huge ways. I used to have PTSD and panic attacks, and struggled to find my purpose in life. I tried all the typical tools: CBT, journaling, SSRIs, yoga, meditation, vitamins, exercise, diet changes – but these things only scratched the surface.
By using the tools in Rageheart, I was able to release the fight-or-flight energy from my nervous system and finally feel safe, relaxed, and go after what I wanted in life.
Rageheart is honestly a game-changer.
In my opinion it beats all the other tools out there, because it helps you get to the root of what you’re feeling so you can release it. 10/10 most effective program I’ve found in the mental health space by far!
Emily
Massage Therapist
I feel much more present and aware. By aware, I mean more intimately connected to my body. I am more sensitive to feelings and physically embodied emotions and I am less overwhelmed because of it. Life is still busy and stressful. Still very tension inducing… but I find myself recognizing when I am tense more often, giving me more agency to tend to my bodies needs.
Sonam Zahrt-Tenzin
Developer
I’m in awe at how effective this work is!
I have done some form of orienting but never like I did in the rumble today. I came in with hip pain and by the end of the hr it was gone. I had been dealing with it for 2 weeks. No explanation. I think I realize now this is related to trauma/ stress/ gripping.
In the Rumble, John made it easy and fun to do these exercises. Because of past trauma, I have often felt afraid to do orienting and if I do it is only for a few minutes. Having others do it with me and having a facilitator there to guide, made me feel much safer.
I now realize how much my body is speaking and craves to feel safe again.
Thank you John for your work and creating a space to heal and feel again.
Christine
Nurse
I’m still taking things slow lesson-wise, but for me, this pace is working well as it’s giving me ample time to integrate.
I wanted to share an interesting thing that I found myself doing this last week:
I’ve been practicing holding space for my emotions as they arise. Then as the emotions start to dissipate on their own (after giving them attention or expression) I close out with a following my impulse “session” (Rage 9).
I found myself pulled to the ground. Exploring that impulse further, lead me to close up inspection of the ground… dirt, rocks, bugs, grass, etc…
And it was a very grounding (pun intended), nostalgic and magical experience. It’s such a youthful, curious thing to do. I remember doing it all the time as a kid… but at some point, I just stopped doing it.
After the first time this week, I’ve been repeatedly drawn to this careful up-close inspection of little things that I normally don’t pay much attention to, and it’s been incredibly enjoyable 🙂
Just wanted to share this little, newly (re)discovered joy.
Thanks for Rageheart.
Sonam Zahrt-Tenzin
Developer
Every time I do this, I just can’t even believe how something so simple can work so well.
I had checked in with my body.
I thought I was completely relaxed.
I thought I had no tension.
I was feeling more tired than anything.
But about 45 minutes in, all of a sudden, I felt my abdomen totally relax.
I was purposely trying to release everything but it released on its own.
It created such a place of peace in my mind.
I don’t understand how it works.
It amazes me every time.
Gayla E.
Nurse
Everyone can benefit from the work, but I think this appeals to people who have tried “all the things” to feel “better” and keep hitting dead ends and running into walls.
I’ve known about the nervous system, regulation, polyvagal theory, somatics, etc. for years.
And I’ve known about how important and foundational these topics are.
But I couldn’t get myself to do more than scratch the surface of these topics.
I thought I had my own path to healing covered by biohacking, meditation, journaling, taking my supplements, being “healthy” and dialed in AF.
I thought I was addressing things at the root cause.
The root?
I was convinced that I was suffering from some mystery illness that my doctors were failing to catch and observe via exams, labs, and extensive testing.
Depending on the flavor of the week, I thought I battling lyme, or CFS, or EBV, or a generational curse that some witch had put on my Polish great-grandmother for continuously stinking up the neighborhood with never-ending batches of stinky sauerkraut.
Each new self-diagnosis brought with it a new supplement, going to a different doctor or energy worker, trying different diets, buying a new tool (e.g. – somehow I managed to stuff an infrared sauna in my tiny NYC apartment).
Truthfully, none of these tools/practices/diets/etc. made a meaningful impact on my life and I kept on hitting wall after wall, wondering when I’d finally feel good and stop feeling shitty and malaise.
I never considered that I was simply shutdown and dysregulated, and all these interventions were bandaids on bullet wounds.
Enter your email a few years ago to your copywriting list about the downsides of meditation and other practices people lean on to heal, ground, feel better, bypass lol. It made me stop and think about all these practices and routines I had, and whether they actually made a difference.
And whether I was engaged in bypassing my experience.
Whether I was actually getting to the root or chasing phantoms.
Flash forward to when you launched Rageheart – at this point I came to the realization (between my partner, other people I followed – e.g. Mastin Kipp, Gabor Mate, etc. – and your emails) that I needed to learn about my nervous system and how to regulate.
Something about you and the Rageheart brand made it feel the topic more palatable and approachable than some of the other people I followed.
I think the masculine and primal energy attracted me (I mean this in a good way because I have a balanced masculine/feminine energy and don’t vibe with over-the-top bravado and chest-thumping).
Anyway, once I got into the content and started applying the practices, I started to feel glimmers of how I wanted to feel:
A loosening of a tight band from around my chest.
More ease.
Less tension.
More flow.
Less withdrawn and malaise.
Rageheart has been a good entry point from theory to practice.
Jon
Copywriter