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Rage Is Clarity: The Day My Therapist Slammed Her Coffee Down

May 19, 2025

One therapist, one chair, one XXL iced coffee: she said my problem was rage. In the face of my mother’s chaos and my own denial, the Zen Master Sybil didn’t ask me to feel my feelings — she demanded I wake up. This is the story of how I started to.

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