Another essential part of the recovery process is anger—in fact, it almost always comes before and ushers in the grief so desperately needed to complete the cycle of trauma. Something cannot be mourned unless its existence has been acknowledged, and for many people, their anger signals that acknowledgement. Most people recovering from Evangelicalism wonder what to do with their anger when it starts to arise, and many are often too afraid to engage it and exhaust themselves trying to avoid or disconnect from it. This is because many of them have been previously taught that the acceptable
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