Special Edition: Overwhelmed by the News? Here’s What to Do
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
3.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
If you’re feeling especially overwhelmed by the news lately, you’re not alone. From executive orders, to economic uncertainty, to wars and tragedies in the headlines, the constant flow of information can be hard to handle. Today, we’re hearing advice from a psychologist and award-winning author about how to stay grounded in the midst of it all.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, April 19th. If you're feeling especially overwhelmed by the news lately, |
| 0:04.7 | you're not alone. From a flurry of executive orders to economic uncertainty to wars and |
| 0:09.5 | tragedies in the headlines, the constant flow of information can be hard to handle and sometimes |
| 0:14.3 | hard to turn off. So today we're talking with psychologist and author Tanya Israel about |
| 0:18.8 | how to stay grounded in the midst of it all. Israel is a |
| 0:21.3 | professor of counseling psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an award-winning author of |
| 0:26.2 | Beyond Your Bubble, How to Connect Across the Political Divide, and her latest book, Facing the Fracture, |
| 0:31.4 | How to Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation. While news fatigue is not new, |
| 0:36.5 | she's sharing insights today into why the news |
| 0:38.5 | might feel especially stressful right now, what most people get wrong about those with different |
| 0:43.1 | political opinions, and how to gain back a feeling of control and calm despite nonstop news |
| 0:48.2 | notifications. Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy special Edition Saturday when we sit down with a different |
| 0:55.6 | expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 0:59.0 | Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes where we provide |
| 1:03.0 | all the day's news in 10 minutes. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 1:05.9 | It's now time for today's special edition Saturday. |
| 1:11.3 | Tanya Israel, thank you so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy. |
| 1:14.5 | I am delighted to be back with you. |
| 1:16.8 | First, can you just give us a brief idea of what you're seeing and hearing from people right now about overwhelm from the news? |
| 1:24.3 | I'm hearing a couple of different things related to the news specifically. Some of it is, |
| 1:29.5 | I am so distressed that I am not even paying attention to it or I'm trying not to, but it keeps |
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