Your Guide To Coping With the Crushing Election Grief You Feel Right Now

Well, here we are again.

Anyone who lived through the 2016 election knows this feeling. It’s alllll too familiar. If you’re like me, you hoped (and on your most optimistic days, maybe dared to believe) you wouldn’t feel it again. Instead, like a recurring nightmare, it’s back and worse than you remember. All of it: Trump; the terror of what the next four years might bring; the crushing grief as we mourn a future and a president we’ll never know.

Election grief, I’m here to tell you, is very much a thing.