Political Stress

It's okay to get support for your post-election feelings.

Your emotions may be running high during this new presidential season, and you may be feeling a mix of emotions that seem hard to navigate. You may be surprised by your own feelings or even lost within your feelings. For many, this time feels like grief, loss, increased anxiety, confusion, shock, disappointment, hurt, anger, frustration or fear. It may even feel hopeless and the uncertainty too overwhelming.

Ways we can support you in this political transition:

    • Managing anxiety, grief, loss, fear

    • Job loss or insecurity

    • Personhood impacts and losses of identity rights

    • Working through hurt, anger, and lack of feeling supported by partners/friends/family/etc who don’t understand your feelings or say things like “it doesn’t apply to me”

    • Living through this experience has triggered past grief, loss, trauma emotions

    • Discuss what is safe/feels safe/can be safe and build on coping skills

    • Discuss boundaries in relationships and conversations; as well as tips for managing emotions with family/friends/coworkers who voted differently

    • Consider how you may need to recover from the election itself due to possible impacts of stress, on sleep habits, changes in relationships, increased concerns

    • Build on your sense of security, stability, emotional/mental wellness through the lens of empathy, curiosity, and kindness for self and others

If you need a safe space to process any aspect of the current political climate…

If you are feeling impacted by changes…

If you are feeling tough emotions…

If your loved ones may be impacted…

We are here to support you.

We are here to continue supporting you.

Rooted Counseling offers online Teletherapy options, including HIPAA-compliant video and phone sessions.