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040: Uncovering Techniques (Part 2) — The Interpersonal Downward Arrow

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

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The Feeling Good Podcast - Episode 5

Next time we'll talk about the What If technique, which is for people with anxiety disorders to get at the core. We're going to do a whole series on interpersonal conflicts and how to turn them around. And I want to remind our listeners that we very much welcome their comments on the show notes.

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Welcome to On the Issues
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with Michelle Goodwin at Ms. Magazine, a show where we report with Ballet, you know, we tell it just like it is. On this show, we center your concerns about rebuilding our nation and advancing the promise of equality. So join me as we tackle the most compelling issues of our times. And our show history matters, you know this. So we examine the past and think about the future. In this episode, we're unpacking something that's become increasingly and distressingly mainstream. And that's political violence in the wake of the Trump years in office. This type of political violence, we know very well and we have covered it on this show where we have interviewed election officials who've been in their jobs for decades and who have expressed a level of threat, a level of physical attacks that they had never seen before, absolutely unprecedented. And most of the election officials, those people who help at the polling places are women, those in fact who help not just only at the polling places, but in the schematics behind that. Most folks are women, over 85, 86% of them are. And whether they are Republican, Democrat, independent, they have seen threats against their lives. But it's not just them. We've also seen the threats of violence against women who are elected officials, state representatives, state senators, members of Congress. Since 2020, we've seen it an unprecedented spike in threats of political violence. This we know from the Brennan Center that a third of poll workers surveyed said that they felt unsafe and 79% wanted government provided security. And the trend has only continued since January 6th and the plot to overthrow the United States government. It hasn't the only plot, the plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. And there's been so much more. These ideas that this was only fringe have now awakened into a reality where we know this is now mainstream. And in the face of these very real and very dangerous threats, credible threats, we want to explore how can we support women? Who are elected officials? Women who are doing the work of preserving our democracy? Who work as election officials? And we're concerned about them, not just about those who are running for office and their candidacies, but it's also while they are tenured and in office. Helping us to impact these issues is an elected official whose experience threats of violence herself. Representative Leslie Harrod has been on our show before, so pleased to have her back. She is a Colorado state representative. She was elected in 2016 after having received more votes, the highest number of votes of any candidate running in a contested election. She is the first LGBTQ African American in the general assembly in Colorado. And she's had such an incredible record as an elected official. Since 2016, she's helped pass over 150 bills addressing criminal justice reform, mental health addiction, homelessness amongst youth, business and the arts and civil rights protections. I couldn't be more pleased than to have Representative Harrod back with us. Representative Harrod, it is such a pleasure to be back with you again.

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