Welcome to Democracy Ish.

I'm Danielle Moody.

And we are very excited to be joined by Dr. Kirk Schneider, who is the author of several books and a person who I

think everyone will be excited to hear from today. Often on Democracy-ish, we talk about anxiety.

We talk about, you know, the end of the world and existential crises that we are all facing.

Fun stuff.

Fun stuff.

And Dr. Schneider's book, Life Enhancing Anxiety, Key to a Sane World, as well as the depolarizing of America, a guidebook for social healing, I think are tools that we

absolutely need. Wajahat, I will turn it over to you for your movie phone introduction.

Dr. Kirk Schneider is a psychologist and psychotherapist who has taken a leading role in the advancement

of existential humanistic therapy and existential integrative therapy. a psychologist and psychotherapist who has taken a leading role in the advancement of

existential humanistic therapy and existential integrative therapy. He is also the current editor

of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. In 2022, he was a candidate for the president of the

American Psychological Association and is a co-founder and current president

of the Existential Humanistic Institute. Dr. Schneider, welcome. And thank you for indulging

in my immaturity when I do that movie phone voice. But, you know, one of the...

Beautifully. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. I have to say, I'm not current editor.

I'm a former editor. Oh, former.

Yes, you know what?

Let's just make either of the former editor.

But you're an impressive person.

And, you know, we threw a lot of words out there and people are like, what, psychotherapist,

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