Welcome to Prologs. My name is Mary, and when I get overwhelmed and start feeling behind,

I find it helpful to zoom out and remind myself that I am still in the beginning of my story.

I'm sharing all of my life's chapters, mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty,

the chaos of being in my 20s in all of life's unexpected turns.

Prologs is the best way to start your week, so join me every Monday morning for a new entry into my digital journal.

Hello, everyone. Welcome back.

Today's episode of Prologs was inspired by a moment from an episode a couple weeks ago. It was episode 25, which was my

getting vulnerable and spilling secrets episode. And in that episode, I talked about being an angry

girl. And I asked y'all, like, please somebody tell me that you're also an angry girl. And then I've

found some community here. And much to my surprise, a lot of you did

reach out and say that you're also an angry girl. So that's what this episode is going to be about.

It's going to be about anger and trauma responses and not liking your anger and trying to calm down

and managing it and handling it and all of the

above because I had an extensive conversation about being an angry girl with my therapist

yesterday and inspired me to record this. So I hope that either this episode makes you feel seen

as a fellow angry girl or if you're not an angry girl, I am going to be talking

about some lessons I've learned in therapy. And so maybe, maybe stick around. It could be fun either way.

Before I get into today's episode, I wanted to share something with you guys, something a little

bit vulnerable. I have been struggling to be unplugged lately. I've been struggling

to manage my screen time. I felt very addicted to my phone and I feel like I've been on social

media too much. I've been like scrolling the For You page again, obsessively checking my

Instagram, ignoring the Instagram time limit that I set on the app.

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