Calm the Fuck Down by Sarah Knight

Author:Sarah Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2018-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

I read the news today, oh boy

It did not take a master’s in guruing to discern that as of the time of this writing, people around the world are more in need than ever of calming the fuck down.

The United States of America, as mentioned, is a total shitshow. The president is an unhinged narcissist, the ruling political party is composed largely of simpering cowards, and affordable health care is nothing more than a collective hallucination—treatment for which is not covered by your insurance company.

England and the rest of the United [for now] Kingdom: not doing so hot either. Perhaps you’ve noticed? In fact, if you watch the news, or even just scroll through Twitter, it seems like every continent is seeing fascism, xenophobia, and sea levels on the rise—or icebergs, honeybees, and civil liberties on the decline.

Ugh.

I don’t know if there’s actually more war, pestilence, extreme weather, or dismaying cultural regression going on than ever before, but I do know we’re more aware of it, because technology has seen to it that humans can’t go a millisecond without finding out about the latest school shooting, terror attack, election meddling, or rendezvous between evil dictators hell-bent on destroying Western civilization.

Double UGH.

It’s a problem, and one I hope this book will help you address in some small but significant way, she writes, as women’s right to bodily autonomy hangs perpetually in the balance.

ROE V. UGHHH.

What to do? Well, because I still believe in the benefits of an informed/enraged citizenry, I’m afraid I cannot personally advocate for Total Ostrich Mode, aka “not consuming the news at all.” But a few minor bouts of ostriching in service to shit you can’t control? I’ll allow it. Go on, get that face in the pillows and that ass in the air!

As to anger, you’re entitled. Letting loose a full-throated howl while your face is in the pillows can be satisfying. You know, if the mood strikes. And if you can channel your anger into something productive, so much the better—like, after hurling every glass container in your home against a wall as though it were an old white man trying to steal your children’s future, you could take out the recycling. Smash the patriarchy, save the planet.

When you’re done—and apart from just hoping things will improve or that you can primal scream them into submission—there are other ways to counteract the feelings of helplessness you might have when being bombarded daily with the worst the media has to offer. Rather than scrolling through your newsfeeds each night before bed and giving yourself teeth-falling-out dreams, perhaps you could try one of the following calming, control-regaining techniques?

They work for me, and I’m about as despondent over crumbling democracy and devastating climate crisis as it gets!

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