Season 6, Episode 18: Jenny McGrath and Rebecca W. Walston and Danielle - this current moment in 2026

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of processing intense emotions in the context of overwhelming societal issues in January 2026.

This Current Moment in January 2026: I think something I'm sitting with is the impossibility and the necessity of trying to metabolize what's going on in our bodies. Yeah, and it feels like this double bind where I feel like we need to do it. We need to feel rage and grief and fear and everything else that we feel, and I don't think our nervous systems have evolved to deal with this level of overwhelm and existential threat that we're experiencing, but I do believe our bodies, Yeah, need space to try to do that.

People in this episode

Host: Danielle

Guests: Jenny McGrath, Rebecca W. Walston

Topics covered

• emotional processing
• existential threat
• nervous system
• rage
• grief
• overwhelm

Keywords

• emotional health
• existential crisis
• nervous system
• rage
• grief
• overwhelm
• processing emotions

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