Welcome to Therapists Unsensored, a podcast where therapists freely speak their minds about real life matters. Welcome back to Therapist Unsensored.

This episode is number 14 and we have a very important and exciting announcement which is that we started in the beginning of September of 2016 and we have just hit our 10,000th download.

So thank you so much for your support and for sharing and for listening.

It means a lot that we imagine as for speaking that there's actually somebody out there.

And we're in 51 countries and 49 states. for speaking that there's actually somebody out there.

And we're in 51 countries and 49 states.

So we often asked to hear from you

and to certainly give us feedback.

And I imagine we might get a couple of letters from today's episode because it is about

big feelings after the election and how to deal with those at family events.

Without further ado, let's roll it. Welcome back to Therapist Unsensored. I'm Sue Marriott and I'm here with my co-hosts.

Patty Aolwell and I'm Anne Kelly. And you guys, this is a tough one, is it not?

It's been a heck of a week. It has been. I think we're all feeling a little heavy and moved and open for discussion but a little pensive.

Right, probably like most people right now.

We are sick to death of talking about the election and yet also we keep

almost like a loose tooth you know you keep touching it to make sure it's still

there. I heard it I heard the use of social media describe like a hairball in the drain you know like it's disgusting but you kind of have to keep poking at it and try to get it

like we can't quite not get off of social media, maybe, but in other words, we're saturated, yet we're not

finished processing it, so we have to talk about it.

Right. And I think it's, we've decided as a team that it's a really important topic to talk about,

especially right now, right before the holidays, because a lot of us are heading

home and there's going to be disparate views all around the table.

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