Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

So how is everything going, guys? Seriously.

I, let's wait, we have over 100 people.

I have to say, it's not been the absolute best of weeks for me because, well, I don't want to,

the thing is, these podcasts now go out and people watch them in all times and places in the future.

So I don't want to say anything that will date this too much. So just whenever you're

watching this, just imagine or consider that maybe something has happened in the governance of your

country that has left you very, very shocked, horrified and desolate. Let's just say something like that happens. You may have any

political lean you want at some point. Something political is going to happen or something

legislative is going to happen that is going to make you feel terrible. So we're going to talk about

that today because, well, because I have very strong feelings about it.

And I know a lot of you probably do too.

When you go out on social media, there is tremendous sadness and tremendous fear and tremendous anger about what has just happened politically in the United States.

And I definitely am coming down on the

side of people who are not thrilled with this change. There, how's that? So I was sitting

around with my family in despair yesterday. Because despair, you know, when something really

volatile happens and it feels really bad, you get to despair

for a while. We'll talk about that in a moment. Let's just say that something has impacted you

badly. We were sitting around. Everybody was getting very morose. And I said, aha, but we have to

apply to this, the techniques of Wayfinder life coach

training, which sounds really stupid, but actually it has some good things in it. And one of those

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