Welcome to Woke a F, a place for bold, authentic, and fully aligned conversations that help us live our best and most conscious lives. I want to be able to give everyone a taste of my daily show, so consider this your appetizer you want more than head over to patreon dot com, slash woke a F and subscribe. This week on woke Wednesday, I chatted with my friend, author of the book Dying of Whiteness, doctor Jonathan Metzel, about how we preserve our mental health in these perilous times.
Take a listen. The last thing that I want to, you know, ask and because we are working to expand Woke a F and expand it in terms of the conversations that we have that are not just steeped in politics and not just steeped in the bad, but also helping people to figure out ways to just live better, especially you know, during this time when you know, I feel like in some ways people feel like joy is limited, right,
and we are talking about adaptation. So I'm just thinking for folks, especially folks that are in the medical profession, who are on the front lines. They're seeing all of the horrors that we're only hearing about and I wish that we saw it because I think that our behavior would change from seeing it with our own two eyes.
Maybe maybe not, I don't know. But what advice do you impart on people or what do you do in order to keep like your spirits like you know, they may not be at one hundred percent, but in order to stay like out of the dark clouds? What advice like, what do you know your friends do family members that are like, you know, yeah, it sucks, but like I just developed this, I just started doing this, or like, you know, I just want to give people something that
they can hold onto when they feel so out of control. Well, I never knew taking payote was so shut up, I I you know, I would say that there's there's a you know, I just keep thinking back to the literatures on mood and exercise. It's not just that we're stuck with this coronavirus floating around and a crazy ass government
and all that kind of stuff. It's also that our lives are so unmoving right now, we don't move at all, and so in a way, there's all this great literature about different kinds of ways that you can increase your mood by becoming active in ways that you weren't before. There was a great video in New York Times the other day about a seven minute home workout that you can do a couple times a day to keep your
heart rate up and things like that. So I think part of the issue is how can you stay active in a way that is completely I mean in the old days, like you'd run to the sub way, right you know, meet your friends to go jogging or something like that. We have none of that stuff right now. And so part of it for me is about staying active. And so just personally, every three hours, I have a twenty minute some kind of movement break something like that, just to force myself not to be at my computer
the entire day. And it for me that has really helped, even if it's at this inside seven minute workout or doing exercise bands or p ninety x or going jogging when it's not too cold out and stuff like that. And so I think movement for me is something that I wasn't used to doing it the way like like intentional, yeah, yeah, but not only I do it the way I snack in a way right now, which is I don't do it.
It's not like a huge meal all the time. I'll do like twenty minutes of exercise every three hours or something like that, and got it to me that has actually made a huge difference, you know, and if not, then Peyote is you know, two thumbs up. But but no, But but I would say I would say that, I would say that that in a way, it's it's a different way of thinking about your body and movement and embodiment in a way that I think is super important.
And I realized that's not like a deep reflection kind of thing. But I just think that so much of like for me, I was realizing so much of my own kind of Saturday nine mood was the fact that I'm not used to or not made for, standing in front of my computer. Yep, yeah, no, I think that that's right. I tell Fok, I work out every day. I probably work out five or to six times a
week doing things that I really like. So whether it's like going power walking down at the piers by my house or you know, doing virtual boxing classes or things like that. But I do realize that movement is so important because I live in a very small apartment in Brooklyn, and if I look at my step pedometer, it can say some days like you've taken you've taken fifty steps, and I'm like, oh, so that's yeah, and I'm like
that's not going to work. So I do think it's really important, especially as we are all parked in front of our computers all day, maybe to set up every three hours, every ninety minute, you know, every ninety minutes, every two hours, something that is a reminder in your calendar, you know that goes off. That's like, huh, I've been sitting a long time. Let me do a couple of yoga poses. Let me go, you know us step outside and like take in some air, you know, with my
mask on and do those things. So that is helpful. Jonathan Metze, we always appreciate you for breaking down, you know, hard news, but you always do it with humor and light, and we appreciate that. To hear my full conversation with Jonathan, head over to patreon dot com. Slash woke f This week we witness the absolute worst that America has to offer. We watched in real time and insurrection take place at the Capitol Building and on Thursday's show, I could not
help myself. I was overcome with rage, with grief with madness at how we even got here. I am outdone and overwhelmed with a sense of grief at what we have witnessed over the last twenty four hours in America. Tragedy. Tragedy would be the genre of this American tale for those that are claiming to be naive, ignorant saying to themselves, I can't believe this is happening. Or the US Capitol Police were caught off guard. No one could have prepared
for this. Understand, dear friends, trusted listeners, that they are indeed full of a type of shit, a type of manure that is just so fucking wretched. Donald Trump tweeted weeks ago, weeks ago, that what was to transpire on January sixth would indeed be wild. Those were his words. Donald Trump, let's just even not look at the last five years, let's just look at the last few months.
Had claimed a head of an election that the election, if he did not win, it was rigged, and then his supporters would have their way with this country regardless. Donald Trump is not a person that asks for consent or that even understands what the word consent actually fucking means. Well, we would know that from the over twenty fucking alleged rape cases and sexual harassment cases. So it is of
no surprise. It should be of no shock to us, then, right that we have arrived at a place where Donald Trump has decided to have his way with America, whether we consent to it, acknowledge it or not. We have been set up. We have been led astray to believe that this constitution, that these political norms that we have allowed ourselves to believe and digest as truth or what and who defines us. But no, that is not the case. What defines us as a nation is the leadership that
we choose to represent us. So what message did we send to the world in twenty sixteen when we decided to give the power of our democracy to our reality TV show host who told us from the beginning just how racist and rancid he was. We gave up being we the people when we decided as a collective that a white supremacy should be who follows in the steps of our first African American president. What we are witnessing is the collective blowback of what happens when white supremacy
is challenged. This country is a disgrace It is a remarkable piece of trash. And I say that with pain in my heart because I knew that this day was coming. I felt it. I've known it for years. This is America. A M E R I K K K A. Folks. I hope you enjoyed this little taste of woke F. If you know me, you know that I got tons more to say, and you know, folks, I don't hold back.
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