Lion's Roar

Angel’s Epiphany

WHEN OUR SESSION BEGINS, even through our computer screens I can see Angel’s excitement. She’s grinning, anxious to get through the therapeutic preliminaries. “I’ve had an epiphany!” she announces. The religious cast of the word gives me pause.

A month before, Angel sought me out as a therapist because she’d been raised

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