reading anger, feeling anger

How close reading helps us stop intellectualizing our pain and start feeling justified anger

Here’s some searing-hot and personal truth:

About a year or so ago, my therapist told me “You’re really good at being sad. You are really, really good at melancholy. Hunkering down with a book and a candle and having a big, long cry. And that’s a beautiful thing.”

A dreaded pause.

“I just wonder how good you might be at your other feelings if you actually …