Hello, my friends. We are living through some very interesting times. And I think it is only

natural that when we are activated, when we are afraid, when we are worried, when we are concerned,

when we are confused, when we are overwhelmed, all of those things, we become a lot more rigid in our thinking.

And this is a tendency that people all over the political spectrum can have. And one of the things

that I have been doing a lot of coaching on with myself and others has been how to relate to people

who aren't sharing our opinions about what's going on.

And it's sort of easy if you're very far apart from someone in their opinions of current events

to kind of fantasize that if the person, if your parents, if your spouse, if your sibling,

if your friends, if your boss, if your sibling, if your friends, if your boss,

whatever had the same political opinions you do, then it would all be so much easier.

And like, decision making would be easier.

And you would feel closer and more connected to them.

And you wouldn't be angry at that.

Right.

That it would obviously be so great if they were just more similar to you.

But what I have found in my own life and what I am able to coach about so well because of it is that even when someone is very close to the same page as you, if you are activated and

you are not coaching yourself, you can be as upset about a small difference as about a big one. And I experienced this recently with

my husband where even though my husband has very similar political stances as I do, we share a lot

most 98% of the same values and opinions about sort of big picture political questions.

We have most of the same opinions about current events.

Like, we're very aligned.

I still was absolutely furious because I had the belief that in, you know, a place that we did have a disagreement

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