Anger: Why We Need to Feel It, How to Cope, and How to Use It

Giselle Flores Alvarado
6 min readJul 18, 2020
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

One of the things I heard very often, was that no one could ever picture me angry. As if anger just didn’t belong in my body and there was no way that my sweet demeanor could ever change into something other than “nice”. For a very long time I took it almost like a compliment. Like I was better, more in control, and that’s why an negative emotion like anger didn’t fit with who I was…

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Giselle Flores Alvarado

I’m a Brown student pursing a BA in literary arts and on my way to an MFA in creative writing. I write and read about love, identity, and womanhood.