Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach,

Tara, Lowenthal.

Hello, my chickens.

How are we doing?

Are we doing okay?

The US presidential House, some Senate elections are coming up very soon, along with various

other state races.

And I've noticed in every meeting I've been in this week, whoever I'm meeting with, is

very stressed out about the elections, including people like my Facebook funnel consultant,

who's a Canadian who lives in Canada, which he doesn't live here or vote here.

And so many people are cycling between anxiety and optimism or hope and despair.

I think there's a lot of election kind of residual trauma from 2016.

And people are really sort of terrified of potential outcomes and afraid to be hopeful or

embracing the optimism because they think that's going to jinx it or set them up to feel

worse down the line.

So I wanted to record this bonus episode to revisit some of what I teach about anxiety

and calm and hope and despair and how we deal with it when the world is not doing what

we wanted to or were worried that it won't do what we wanted to.

So depending on when you're listening to this, there are a few different scenarios that

could be playing out.

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