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Welcome home, cojourners. I'm glad you're here for another episode. I'm Dr. Tama,

psychologists, minister and sacred artists here to facilitate your journey back home to yourself.

I am so excited that you're here and I want to start this episode as we do every episode

with a reading and this one is from Cole, author Riley, from her book Black Liturgies,

prayers, poems, and meditations for staying human.

In her chapter on anger, she writes,

Benediction, awake, awake, oh, sleeper, be reminded that the world deserves so much more than apathy in the presence of injustice.

Go with anger, not as enemy, but as guardian, a sacred protector in a world of so much hatred,

reminding us we deserve to be protected.

We breathe, we feel, and we befriend our anger, as if the liberation of the world depends on it.

May it be so. Yes, yes. Thank you so much, Cole for this reminder about the

healthiness and necessity of anger regarding injustice, mistreatment, abuse, violence, I like to say it is healthy to be

outraged about outrageous things. It is healthy to be outraged about outrageous things.

And Judith Herman renowned psychiatrist who wrote the book Trauma and Recovery,

talks about the difference between constructive anger and destructive anger. So when outrageous

things happen, we can respond with an anger that mobilizes us to take action so that the

world will be better, or we can respond with destructive anger that adds to the demise,

the violence, the aggression, the destruction. And so you want to ask yourself, what do I care enough about?

Who do I care enough about that when they are mishandled, mistreated, disregarded, I have outrage about that and is my outrage of a healthy form that

inspires me, that motivates me to take corrective action so that lives will be enhanced and improved and protected.

So as we think about that on today, our topic is coping with political stress.

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