By: Gabriela Yareliz
“Anger is a map,” Julia Cameron writes. She says that anger deserves to be listened to, not stuffed away or suppressed as we tend to do. Why? Because it shows us, in the most loyal way, where we have been betrayed and where we have betrayed ourselves. Anger is a loyal friend.
Anger shows us where boundaries belong; where open wounds lie.
We all go in and out of anger eras. Sometimes, it’s anger because of deep loss and lack of acceptance of reality; sometimes, it’s anger mixed with pain of betrayal; sometimes, it’s anger in the form of resistance to manipulation or evil; sometimes, it’s anger in the face of deep injustice.
It’s time to stop seeing anger as wrong or something to be disposed of. Anger is not a resting place, though. Anger calls us to a journey. When on a journey, you don’t throw out the map. The map is not the destination, it is a tool. If you don’t use it, you remain lost. Anger is a map. Don’t discard the map, but instead, use it to find your way home.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 