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Teetering on the brink

Catherine Andrews
5 min readNov 11, 2020

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The duality of life in a post-election world

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This article is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a newsletter about clarity, intention, and useful tips for creating more meaning in your life that goes out every Sunday morning. Subscribe here. I am also a coach who works with sensitive people so they can stop second-guessing, make decisions confidently and live the life they’ve always dreamed of. You can learn more about working with me here.

The duality of both

Happy Sunday, Soothers. Whew. I’m writing this at 5pm on Saturday, much later than I normally draft the Soother, because how the hell was I going to write anything without knowing the outcome of the U.S. presidential election? And we do. Thank goodness.

My brain was all over the place thinking about possible things to say here. I was driving home this afternoon from a visit to my parents’ backyard and “Crazy in Love” came on my exuberant dance playlist, the song I heard after Obama was inaugurated in 2009 as I sat in a jubilant, packed coffee shop; the song that came on as I rode in a Lyft home knowing neo-Nazi marches were happening in D.C. the next day in 2018; and now, November 2020, the day we officially voted Trump out of office, and I headed home to watch more about it, and celebrate alone, but not quite, with some friends on…

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Catherine Andrews
Catherine Andrews

Written by Catherine Andrews

Teaching awakening + healing through vulnerability + self-compassion. Finding hope in a messy world. Author of the Sunday Soother. http://catherinedandrews.com

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