Do you sometimes fluctuate between depression and delusion? Are you trying to think positively but keep encountering setbacks? Do you have lots of internal conflicts about how to address problems? Well, dump the blues, rein in the everything-is-going-to-be-okay syndrome and try a different approach. Why and how to do it? Tune in to Lighting the Way, and share your thoughts as well. While you're here, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilize around. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

When it’s okay to assassinate people from one political party but not another, when it’s considered normal to charge people with crimes for protesting peacefully but genocide is condoned, when our government bombs other nations without provocation, we have entered a world that is upside-down from what many of us thought was normal for our nation. Is this a sudden change? Or were we like this before, but didn’t know it? Tune in for this and more on today’s Lighting the Way.

While you're here, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilize around. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.

Life is full of disappointments, and we use many strategies to deal with them -- from blaming ourselves to blaming others, to rationalizing. and more. Let's look at seven of our strategies. What are the upsides and downsides of each? Let's talk about them, learn, laugh, and support one another.

While you're here, take a look at our New Declaration of Independence, which lays out a positive vision to mobilizearound. Sign and spread the Declaration. Let’s mobilize. Here's the link: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/newdeclaration⁠⁠. Also, check out what you can do to co-create a better future. Go to ⁠⁠https://thestream.info/nextsteps⁠⁠. Participate in our online conversation on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Let’s mobilize. Write to Beth with any of your ideas as well at ⁠⁠⁠beth@thestream.info⁠⁠⁠. For tons of free content, go to ⁠⁠⁠https://HealingArtsNetwork.org⁠⁠⁠.