My therapy taught me this one thing about anger

I spent most of my twenties convinced that anger was bad and I needed to get rid of it. Therapy taught me: anger is information. It tells you a boundary has been crossed. It tells you something matters to you. It's not a flaw — it's a signal. The problem isn't the anger. It's what we do with it: suppress it, explode it, or turn it inward. Now when I notice anger, I try to ask: what is this protecting? What does it need? Usually it needs to be heard, not extinguished. This took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out. Writing it down anyway.