Maintaining Relationships Through the Election Cycle With Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We are in the midst of a tumultuous election cycle, and that can take a toll on our sleep, our mental health, and our relationships. But the good news is it doesn’t have to be like that! This week, host Paula Felps talks with psychology instructor and resiliency expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, author of Stress Wisely: How to Be Well in an Unwell World. Dr. Robyne offers tips to help us navigate potentially volatile conversations, understand the stress that we’re feeling right now, and learn how to better navigate this unusual time. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why we tend to take political discussions personally. How to stay informed without becoming overwhelmed. Setting boundaries on political discussions at work and home.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 487 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.9	We're in the midst of a tumultuous election cycle, and that can take a toll on our sleep,
0:13.1	our mental health, and our relationships.
0:15.6	But the good news is it doesn't have to be that way.
0:19.1	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with psychology instructor and resiliency expert Dr. Robin Hanley DeFoe, author of Stress Wisely, How to Be Well in an Unwell World.
0:31.3	Dr. Robin is here to talk about how we can navigate potentially volatile conversations, ease our stress about the future, and create new
0:39.3	self-soothing habits that can last a lifetime. Let's have a listen. Dr. Robin, welcome back to
0:45.1	live happy now. I'm so excited to spend time with you today. Thanks for having me. Oh, I am excited
0:51.5	to have you back on the show. You know, you really ride in that lane of managing
0:56.4	stress. And these are stressful times. It was stressful before we started getting into all the
1:02.0	election stress. And obviously, that's something Live Happy Now is really addressing over the next
1:06.7	couple of months. And I wanted to talk to you about how the stress from the election environment
1:12.7	is affecting us. And let's go from it. Yeah, the mind, body, spirit. We've got multiple ways
1:18.5	that's affecting us. Yeah, absolutely. And again, I'm just so appreciative to be able to have these
1:23.1	conversations because I think so often the experience of stress can become super isolating, right? Like our body
1:29.9	naturally will start to shut down. It's naturally going to pull away. It's naturally going to like
1:35.1	want to kind of hide. And so what I love that we're doing is we're shining a big spotlight on it
1:40.2	because we know as soon as we put it in the open, all of a sudden it loses its power to grip
1:45.9	every aspect of our life. So I just absolutely just love and hold space that we're having this
1:50.2	conversation because we need to bring it to the forefront. And you're absolutely right. It's impacting
1:55.2	us psychologically, right? There's this deep fear that's starting to set in of the unknown
2:00.6	or the uncertainty of what
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