Episode 226: How To Be Okay

2025 is a lot. Things are kinda overwhelming right now: there’s a lot of news to digest and it's coming fast, it’s hard to suss out reality from fiction, and we don’t know what we can do to help. And so…it’s hard to be okay right now.  But it sure is easy to be overwhelmed. Frightened. Angry. Trapped in a sense of powerlessness. 

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This week we are going to talk about how to be okay, whether you’re facing fascism, climate change, plastic pollution, the fast fashion crisis, or all of these at once.

• Why we doomscroll, how it's impacting our brains, and what we can do to stop it,
• How to manage the flow of accurate information into our lives,
• How to talk to people online,
• How to take care of ourselves,
• And things we can actually do to help out locally and globally.

Along the way, we'll talk about why waiting for collapse isn't helping anyone and why you should never forget the mouse in your pocket.

Things mentioned in this episode:

Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
Or read the transcript here.

5 Best Apps to Limit Social Media Time
The Brick
Input/Output (Caitlin Kunkel Substack)

Good Climate News (Alaina Wood Substack)
Robert Reich Substack
Letters From An American (Heather Cox Richardson Substack)
Indivisible.org

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