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Overcoming despair with creative self-questioning
Creative alternatives to despair using your imagination
Creative alternatives to despair with imagination
You can listen to this essay as audio here on my Sunday Soother podcast
Happy Sunday, Soothers. If you found yourself exhausted in the past week, alternately joyful and numb, elated and down, in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election, know that I’m right there with you. From Sunday to Wednesday, I was basically a husk of a human, staring at walls, wondering how this corporeal form can possibly contain and process so many emotions at once. It can and it did, of course, but it was a very physical experience and just know if you’re still tired or feeling any sort of way, it’s completely normal after a massively emotional event like the one the U.S. just collectively went through. Simply continue to rest.
Anyways, as I was reflecting on the past week and what I could even possibly write today that would be meaningful or resonant after such a moment in time, I kept coming back to the question that had looped in my mind for months: “What if Trump wins again?”
And how completely, utterly, totally useless and in fact self-harmful that line of questioning had been.
