10% Happier with Dan Harris · 2025-05-16 · 13 min · 2,149 words

If You're Freaking Out About Politics | Bonus Episode with Dan

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It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, everybody. How are we doing? The regular listeners of this podcast know that we've been experimenting with our Friday episodes lately.

Sometimes we drop a guided meditation from me or one of my friends. Sometimes we give you little snippets of our community Q<unk>A sessions that we do over on Substack, danharris.com. Sometimes we do a behind-the-scenes episode with producers from our team. Anyway, We're experimenting.

Today we're trying something completely new and different. I'm gonna read to you a short essay that I wrote over on Substack with some ideas about how to work with your mind in this fraught political moment. Full disclosure, I wrote this back in mid-March, but things are still pretty fucking crazy. So the advice here is both relevant and evergreen. Regardless of who you voted for or what your particular political

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