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Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.

And I'm Kirsten Oates.

Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.

Welcome, everyone to Season 10 of Turning to the Mystics,

where we've been turning to T.S. Eliot and his poetry in four quartets.

Today is part two of our listener questions.

I'm here with Jim, and we have a lot of questions

to get through so let's dive in. The first question is from Brian. In the first stanza of the dry

salvages, Teaseliad begins by describing the river, sullen and tamed, intractable, patient to some degree. When you read out the line,

the river is within us. In session three, I could not help but think of my anger as the strong brown

God. I am someone who struggles with anger, and similar to a river, I can see the ways in which it

causes destruction and devastation to the

people around me, usually the people that I love the most. When things are going my way and I have

some semblance of control over my life, my anger is forgotten, but never goes away. It is simply

waiting, watching and waiting. When I start to lose control is when my anger rises and starts to come to life.

Do you have any guidance from your years as practicing clinical psychology on how I might learn to deal with my anger?

Yes, this is similar to the previous thing about anger, but you're adding a nuance to it, here I think, too.

First of all, here's my thought.

I'm going to speak as a therapist.

See, it's one thing to be quick to anger.

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