The Political Aide's Survival Guide: How to Use DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness to Navigate a Toxic Political Environment and Distress Tolerance for Election-Cycle Stress
How to Use DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness to Navigate a Toxic Political Environment and Distress Tolerance for Election-Cycle Stress
Political work has a peculiar way of making ordinary Tuesday afternoons feel historically important. A routine call can become a press problem. A draft memo can become the sentence everyone argues about.
A five-minute delay can derail a motorcade, anger a donor, irritate a principal, or produce forty frantic messages in a group chat. The work rewards speed, memory, discretion, judgment, and a tolerance for ambiguity that would make many sensible people walk toward a quieter profession.
That intensity can be exhilarating. It can also distort your sense of what is normal.
What You Will Discover Inside The Political Aide's Survival Guide
In The Political Aide's Survival Guide, Corin Fischer writes a practical guide you can use this week. You will find scenes you recognize, steps you can try today, and language that does not insult the problem.
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Arena: The Unique World of Political Work: How this shows up at work, and what to change in the next meeting rather than in theory.
The allure and the intensity: What the allure and the intensity looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
Chapter 2: Why This Book? Bridging Psychology and Politics: What why This Book? Bridging Psychology and Politics looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
The need for specialized coping: What the need for specialized coping looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
Chapter 3: DBT's Foundation: Core Mindfulness for Political Aides: Concrete scripts and skills you can use in the next hard conversation.
What mindfulness is and isn't: What what mindfulness is and isn't looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
