Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations with Beth Silver and Sarah Stewart Holland of Pantsuit Politics • 071
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The last few years, almost any political conversation has just left me feeling drained. It just seems like we’re more divided than ever and you’re asking for trouble if you bring anything up, unless you’re in a room of people you already know is going to agree with you.
The more we give up our ability to have these conversations with people that have a different point of view, the more divided we become because we’re less likely to be engaged with a viewpoint that’s not our own.
Today we’re talking to Beth Silver and Sarah Stewart Holland, the authors of I Think You’re Wrong but I’m Listening. They’re two friends from college who ended up on two different sides of the political debate. They figured out how to have these discussions in a healthy way, and are here to share what they learned with us!
So after the first few minutes, a tornado wiped out Sarah’s power, but the conversation flowed so well with Beth I don’t think it takes anything away. Plus, you still get both sides with Beth as the conservative viewpoint and me as the liberal viewpoint.
And don’t worry, we’re not getting into the nitty gritty of triggering political topics. Moreso how to be able to talk about them.
Today we will learn:
- How to find your political why
- The importance of being able to hold tension
- How to handle politics on social media
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mind Love, episode 71. Today's episode is all about how to have grace-filled political |
| 0:06.9 | conversations. |
| 0:07.9 | So sometimes when we're in that dinner situation, we look around the table and we feel that it's important that we all get up from |
| 0:16.1 | that table ready to write a law together or ready to support the same candidate. |
| 0:20.9 | Like if we don't persuade everyone to be on the same |
| 0:23.4 | page, like if we don't persuade everyone to be on the same page, we've lost something. |
| 0:25.2 | And we haven't. |
| 0:26.2 | We have to be willing to say, I'm in relationship with these people. |
| 0:29.5 | That relationship has lots of dimensions that are not political. This portion of our relationship has tension in it. We are in different places and that is okay. And that is true even when you are hearing things from them that are truly abhorrent to you. |
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| 1:30.0 | Today's episode is going to be fun. |
| 1:32.0 | It's honestly the most fun I've ever had talking politics. |
| 1:36.5 | But the last few years, it just seems like almost any political conversation has just left me feeling drained. |
| 1:44.3 | It seems like we're more divided than ever, |
| 1:46.8 | and you're kind of just asking for trouble |
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