How To Take Care Of Yourself This Election Season

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It's Election Day, but instead of the latest politics news, we're giving you some therapy. Sam shares listener questions around mental health issues with psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb. In addition to her clinical practice, Gottlieb is the New York Times best-selling author behind Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed. She and Sam discuss burnout, white guilt, and when the right time is to reach out to a therapist. Gottlieb also co-hosts the podcast Dear Therapists and writes the weekly advice column 'Dear Therapist' for The Atlantic.

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0:00.0	Well, this has been a heartier for many people, but...
0:02.8	On Main Story tonight concerns the 2020 elect.
0:06.5	2020.
0:08.0	The staggering and rising death.
0:10.0	2020.
0:11.6	There's a lot of anger in the country.
0:13.9	Everything that's been going on in the country over the past few months has been a very difficult
0:18.0	stretch for so many people.
0:23.1	Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute.
0:26.1	So this year, this election season, this everything, it has been a lot.
0:32.0	In fact, a lot of you might be hearing this on Election Day, which for many reasons
0:36.8	seems particularly stressful.
0:39.0	Knowing all that and knowing that we all could use a bit of help dealing with everything.
0:43.4	This episode, we are giving you a therapy session.
0:46.4	I think that a lot of people are starting to say, wait a minute, I really need to focus on my
0:51.2	emotional health in a serious way.
0:53.6	And I think it's also a time where people are saying, wait a minute, I can feel my feelings
0:58.9	and it's not going to kill me.
1:00.1	That is Psychotherapist Laurie Gottlieb.
1:02.4	She is the author of the best-selling book, maybe you should talk to someone.
1:06.3	On top of that, Laurie is a podcast host and columnist and she is still seeing clients.
1:11.3	So for this episode, we asked all of you to send in questions that you wanted us to ask Laurie.
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