Post Election Coping

A message during for those feeling overwhelmed, sad, angry, grieving and/or hopeless right now:

Allow yourself space to feel your feelings and honor them as they are valid and need to be felt.

AND….then we can look at how to cope and feel better, after we have slowed down and honored our big feelings.

While it can be easy to get sucked into anxiety about the future, the future is yet undetermined and how we talk about the future and our abilities to navigate it matter, so let’s look at some ways to improve our sense of empowerment and capacity to deal with whatever the future holds.

This might be remembering how we’ve coped in similar circumstances in the past and the reality that we survived and are still here.

This might be looking to history and how people have dealt with and overcome similar challenges and how they have positively impacted the world.

Look to people in your community that are doing the work you are passionate about and get involved, because taking action is empowering.

Look into philosophy, spirituality, and/or religion to find ways that others have made sense of their struggles and made meaning and found purpose in similar situations.

Connect to your community, because it is within community that we are strongest, and we have the most power to effect change.

Many of the ideas were drawn from a presentation by Dr. Jillian Tucker on Interweaves for Processing Global Crisis.