7 Ways to Stay Grounded and Keep Resisting — Even If Trump’s Iran Strike Escalates

Seven practical strategies to help you protect your stamina, resist emotional collapse, and keep showing up no matter what happens.

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Dear friends

When the stakes feel unbearably high — as they do right now, following Trump’s unilateral strike against Iran — it’s natural to fall into a pattern of speculating about what’s going to happen next. Speculation gives us the illusion of control — as if, by running through every possible scenario, we can somehow prepare for all outcomes.

But that’s an illusion. What actually happens is that we burn precious energy cycling through possibilities that may never materialise. And moving into a cycle of endless speculation creates a very real danger of our emotional and cognitive resources being gradually drained without us even realising it.

When we get endlessly caught-up in a loop of speculation, we start living in imagined futures instead of…