Thank you for joining us for episode 493 of Live Happy Now.

It's Election Day, and that means most of us have a pretty good idea of how we'd like things to go.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined again by Dr. Lauren Cook, who created our overcoming

election stress email series and has provided some great insights throughout this election cycle

to help us manage our anxiety. She's back to talk about how to cope with the results of this

election, whether or not it goes how you'd like, and tell us how we can use the outcome to build

lasting resilience

and connections. Let's have a listen. Lauren, welcome back to Live Happy Now. Always good to be back.

I feel like we're friends now, Paula. I know. Well, we've been on this journey, this election

journey together, and it's crazy to look back at how quickly this is all past.

The day is here. It has finally come. It is. And it's crazy. Yes. So on the day this comes out,

it's election day. We're a few days before that that we're recording this. But what this means is as

we talk and as our listeners hear it,

we don't know the outcome, they don't know the outcome. So first of all, what should people

be doing on Election Day besides voting to keep their anxiety up bay? Everybody, please go vote.

And I would say this is often advice I give to folks, do something where you're using your hands today.

And by that, I don't mean scrolling on your phone.

So maybe you do a little bit of painting.

You play some tennis.

If you live by a river, you do a little canoeing.

Do something active today because a lot of us, we just sit and we wait till

you know, 5 p.m., whatever the time zone we may be in and we're just waiting, waiting,

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