By Kerri Miller, MPR News
Are you wringing your hands over the political polarization we’re experiencing in this country? Are you egging it on among your kindred spirits?
Family therapist Bill Doherty has been on MPR News with Kerri Miller before to talk about his work with Braver Angels, but most of those conversations have been focused on de-polarizing encounters and interactions with your political opposites.
He spoke with Miller about depolarizing within your own political circles.
The more I was able to productively disagree with people, the more I realized that I didn’t need them to agree with me in order for me to be okay. I found strength and peace in myself that left me feeling more empowered, even when the world felt scary and out of control.
The civic philosophies of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. echo in the work of Braver Angels.
If in the midst of this tragedy, the people of Los Angeles, and all America for that matter, are given cause to remember how precious we are to one another, then something will have been gained in this.
