I was anticipating a challenging situation yesterday involving political discourse at local event in my town. Some of the comments I had read online were very upsetting to me. I was concerned how I would respond – and if I even wanted to do affect labeling.
I shared this with Jim and Zahra on the Coffee Hour yesterday. I thought it would help to start with affect labeling myself: I was sad, disappointed, frightened and disgusted by some of the things I had been reading. I thought looking inward would help me to better interact with people and charged political comments at the event. I didn't hear any charged/upsetting political comments😊. But I was able to do affect labeling with people talking about other situations in their lives. I left feeling relieved and glad I attended the event.