War and national crisis
3 episodes of The Truth Hurts on this topic, each with its notes, key points and the questions it answers.
Episode 42 · January 18, 2024
War, Justice, and Why Unity Comes First
You declare war on the extra pound, on the glass of Coke, on the neighbor who gets on your nerves, and you find that it only gets stronger. That's no accident. The way Gili sees it, the moment you define something as an enemy you're in a battle with it, and you get exactly what you focused on: another war. Even the declared war on drugs and alcohol has only grown, with billions of dollars poured into it, because even negative attention feeds the very thing it's fighting. The question that stays with you is where you're still choosing to resist at home instead of letting go.
Episode 29 · October 19, 2023
Those Who Believe Aren't Afraid When It Matters Most
You're allowed to be angry at God, and it still counts as talking to Him
If in the last few months you've been angry at God and quietly asked where He was, and then felt uncomfortable with the question itself, you aren't alone. Gili says that anger and complaints toward the Creator are also a kind of conversation with Him, not a betrayal of Him. She doesn't let herself off either: the baseless hatred and the division that came before the war touched her too. From there she moves to what can still be done, three things together rather than one tool on its own, and toward the end, how to tell when what you're dealing with has already become post-traumatic stress.
Episode 28 · October 12, 2023
Facing a State of War
You check the news over and over, as though that will give you control over what's happening, and then you feel worse, not better. There's also the quiet guilt: how are you allowed to laugh, to rest, to open Netflix, when things outside are not okay? The way Gili sees it, the division among us is more dangerous than anything else right now, and unity is the strongest weapon we have against it. And it starts with small things: how many times a day you let yourself check the news, and who you turn to when it's hard.