157. Election Emotions (2020 Politics & Beyond)
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Are you feeling anxious and worried about the upcoming US presidential election? Our brains are wired to fixate on anything in the future that they perceive as a potential “threat,” but you don’t have to let your fear consume you. In this episode, I’ll teach you how to wrangle your brain when you are spinning out about the election (or any other future-focused event you’re stressed about).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello my chickens, How are we doing? Are we doing okay? The U.S. Presidential |
| 0:39.8 | House, some Senate elections are coming up very soon, along with various other state races. |
| 0:46.2 | And I've noticed in every meeting I've been in this week, whoever I'm meeting with, is very |
| 0:51.6 | stressed out about the elections, including people like my Facebook Funnel |
| 0:56.0 | consultant who's a Canadian who lives in Canada, she doesn't live here or vote here. |
| 1:01.6 | And so many people are cycling between anxiety |
| 1:05.5 | and optimism or hope and despair. |
| 1:07.8 | I think there's a lot of election kind of residual trauma |
| 1:11.3 | from 2016, and people are really sort of terrified of |
| 1:15.7 | potential outcomes and afraid to be hopeful or embracing the optimism because |
| 1:20.0 | they think that's gonna jinx it or set them up to feel worse down the line. |
| 1:24.0 | So I wanted to record this bonus episode to revisit some of what I teach about |
| 1:30.0 | anxiety and calm and hope and despair and how we deal with it when the world is not |
| 1:37.5 | doing what we want it to or we're worried that it won't do what we want it to. |
| 1:41.7 | So depending on when you're listening to this, there are a few different |
| 1:45.4 | scenarios that could be playing out. I mean, let's be real, 2020 has taught us anything. It's that we are terrible |
| 1:52.3 | of predicting the future. |
| 1:53.2 | So there are probably 600 million scenarios that could be playing out. |
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