Think A Second Time

So after my previous spectacularly anxiety ridden post regarding my overwhelming feelings about how dangerous Donald J. Trump is, not to mention the number of serious problems I have had about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, I found myself spinning my wheels. I have been falling into the proverbial quicksand of the 2016 US Election, the more I try to make sense of something so removed from what fits with any reality I have ever known, the more I seem to sink into the muck. I need to take a step back, catch my breath, and then try to find a newer more objective and less frightening way to consume all the information coming from south of the border.

As he has done many times before, Myles Dyer, a UK based Social Justice activist, vlogger, and all around smart guy in the room, came to my rescue with his latest YouTube video. This week Myles speaks about some very helpful ways you can tweak your internal dialogue to not only process all the information coming in, but to flip the script and feel empowerment as opposed to helplessness. In this video, called Unhelpful Thinking Habits, Dyer gives us 12 concrete examples of just how we can use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to pull ourselves back from the abyss and discover the nuance of the conversation, as well as the likelihood that we (myself included) are blowing things out of proportion.

Please check out all of the videos Myles Dyer has created over his 10+ years as a vlogger on his YouTube Channel, his latest in particular have been instrumental in my ability to consume the deluge of information flowing in while putting it all into a Social Justice and Progressive framework.