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How to handle guilt over not feeling grateful after surviving disaster

Everyone says I should feel grateful that we survived the tornado but mostly I just feel angry that it happened at all and then guilty for feeling angry.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Prescribed emotions deny the complexity of survival and the right to authentic feeling.

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