The holiday season presents us with its own set of challenges to navigate in any normal year. However, 2020 is not a normal year. Families everywhere are feeling the pinch of a growing political divide and Covid-19. So, regardless if its over Zoom or in person, how do we navigate already complex relationships with the added stressors of the past year? Clinical social worker and therapist Stephanie Bagley discusses the importance of maintaining and setting healthy boundaries for ourselves and others.  Our families and friends are complex and nuanced, not reducible to a single set of views or actions. We are capable of having meaningful conversations with those we love but disagree with, so long as we put effort into ground rules and a plan ahead of time.

"And the dialect that I like to say to myself is that people are doing the best that they can, but also people need to do better. So two opposing things can be true at the same time. Your parents could have voted for someone that you disagree with, and they could also still be good parents." --Stephanie Bagley

Audio engineered by Blaise Douros