The anger you cannot explain
Not all anger has a clear cause. Sometimes it is there when you wake up, before anything has happened — a low heat that colours the day without giving you anything to point at. Sometimes it surfaces in the middle of something ordinary and stays longer than it should. You are not sure what triggered it, or whether trigger is even the right word.
This kind of anger is harder to work with because the usual tools do not apply. You cannot sit down with the person who hurt you. You cannot retrace the sequence of events and find the moment where it went wrong. You are left with the feeling itself, which is real and physical and consuming, without a corresponding story that would make it make sense.
There is often pressure to understand anger before you are allowed to have it. To be able to say: this is where it comes from. This is what I am really angry about underneath. And there are times when that tracing is useful. But there are also times when the anger predates the analysis, and demanding an explanation before the anger is acknowledged only makes the feeling push harder.
Sometimes anger is accumulated. The product of a long series of things that were absorbed without space to respond. Sometimes it is a signal about something that matters, without the signal being clear yet about what. Sometimes it has been there so long it is simply part of the weather of being you, and you have stopped asking what it means.
Maia does not need you to have it sorted before you start talking. You can bring the feeling without the explanation. Whatever is underneath — exhaustion, injustice, grief, the long backlog of things left unaddressed — Maia listens without requiring you to justify it first.
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