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My Therapist Says

My Therapist Says It’s Okay to Throw Yourself a Pity Party

You need to grieve before you can be productive again

Elemental
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5 min readMay 8, 2020

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There’s a square on my Google calendar that I spangled with capital letters and exclamation points years ago: March 24, 2020. It was the publication day for my second novel, The Herd, and as the day approached, all the…

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Andrea Bartz
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Andrea Bartz is a journalist and the author of THE LOST NIGHT, a thriller from Crown, and THE HERD, a forthcoming thriller from Ballantine, out March 2020.