Clinton: I relied on prayer, yoga and 'my fair share of Chardonnay' after 'devastating' 2016 loss
Source: CNN
New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she was devastated and drained after her loss to Donald Trump in 2016, but regained her strength by relying on a mix of prayer, yoga and "my fair share of Chardonnay."
Clinton, speaking at an event focused on her faith at New York's Riverside Church, said she did not think she was going to lose heading into Election Day and was entirely thrown by the defeat. To get through it, Clinton said, she turned inward, relying on her "internal resources" and the support of her family and friends.
"I relied on several tools, one of which was prayer, and I was lifted up and blessed by a lot of people who sent me prayers, sent me spiritual readings," she said. "I also had the support of my family. ... My friends rallied around and were so supportive. I did some yoga. Tried alternative nostril breathing."
And, in a light moment, Clinton added, "Yes, I had my fair share of Chardonnay."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/hillary-clinton-book-event/index.html
Below is the Youtube video. She looks great, and she did a great job tonight.
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Time for tai chi, too. 
to others instead of preaching like an evangelical hypocrite. Being a Christian is quite different than claiming God was on her side. I've never heard any real Christians say such a thing.
Trump winning the so-called Christian vote is because there is a segment of Christianity today that preaches hate instead of love.
You should call Sec. Clinton and voice your concerns about her prayers. Let her know she's doing it all wrong. Maybe tell her your irrelevant Nazi anecdote as well. 
Or you can rationalize not doing it with a really creative excuse.
Five'll get you ten it's the latter.
I don't care what religion you are, and certainly not whether you are religious or not.
But keep it to your god damn self! It has no business in the public sphere. And certainly not in any political sphere. That's the game that the GOP and their religious right minions have been playing for fucking decades.
So you see, they've kind of spoiled it all for Hillary's professed religiosity.
That's why I take such a strong stand against such pronouncements. They are first, useless. And they give comfort to those who use their religiosity to divide us.
That is why I maintain that the public square must remain secular. In a better world that might not be so.
My best to you.
just as insufferable and intolerant as their evangelical counterparts. 
First, people need to Google "establishment clause" just to make sure folks understand where I stand.
Then, Google "Christian privilege". There you will find "insufferable".
Non-believers, if anything, are the bottom of the barrel. I know. I am a lifelong atheist. I don't mind believers at all, as long as they keep it to their fucking selves. Nobody can credibly call that insufferable. Not when so many of the vast majority Christians are simultaneously screaming persecution. That is what I call the definition of insufferable.
Thank you for your responses.
My best to you.
mention of prayer from a person of faith just seems a bit silly to me. There may be a good reason "Non-believers....are the bottom of the barrel".
And my best to you as well.
See what you did?
That is what I am stating. It is what I would call being insufferable. No personal offense intended.
I am attempting to open people's minds. The default mode in humanity should not be to witness for their religion, or their "faith".
This especially in politics. And make no mistake about it, Hillary Clinton is a politician. To say otherwise is delusion. I stand by my statement that Religion and politics are a toxic mix. I truly wish that it wasn't so.
As always,
I became a Democrat in 2008 just so I could vote for Hillary.
After many years as an independent I finally realized that I will never in my life, ever, vote for a Republican, at least not for president. So why remain independent? I really really wanted to vote for Hillary in the primary, and I joined the Democratic Party. I have no regrets!
Personally it's just disappointing to me that someone as intelligent has Hillary Clinton still relies upon religion in any sense. I wouldn't call it a character flaw or anything, but it's disappointing that it's a thing.
Harvard professor Herbert Benson performed a "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)" in 2006.[39] The STEP, commonly called the "Templeton Foundation prayer study" or "Great Prayer Experiment", used 1,802 coronary artery bypass surgery patients at six hospitals. Using double-blind protocols, patients were randomized into three groups, individual prayer receptiveness was not measured. The members of the experimental and control Groups 1 and 2 were informed they might or might not receive prayers, and only Group 1 received prayers. Group 3, which served as a test for possible psychosomatic effects, was informed they would receive prayers and subsequently did. Unlike some other studies, STEP attempted to standardize the prayer method. Only first names and last initial for patients were provided and no photographs were supplied. The congregations of three Christian churches who prayed for the patients "were allowed to pray in their own manner, but they were instructed to include the following phrase in their prayers: "for a successful surgery with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications".[40] Some participants complained that this mechanical way they were told to pray as part of the experiment was unusual for them. Complications of surgery occurred in 52 percent of those who received prayer (Group 1), 51 percent of those who did not receive it (Group 2), and 59 percent of patients who knew they would receive prayers (Group 3). There were no statistically significant differences in major complications or thirty-day mortality. In The God Delusion, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote, "It seems more probable that those patients who knew they were being prayed for suffered additional stress in consequence: performance anxiety', as the experimenters put it. Dr Charles Bethea, one of the researchers, said, "It may have made them uncertain, wondering am I so sick they had to call in their prayer team?'"[41] Study co-author Jeffery Dusek stated that: "Each study builds on others, and STEP advanced the design beyond what had been previously done. The findings, however, could well be due to the study limitations."[42] Team leader Benson stated that STEP was not the last word on the effects of intercessory prayer and that questions raised by the study will require additional answers
Atheists are often told 'i'll pray for you' (I've gotten it probably hundreds of times in my life, sometimes with the same tone someone from the south might say 'bless your heart') in a somewhat weaponized social context. So we tend to have a somewhat negative view of the concept. (A tendency, not a universality. Not all of us.)
When someone tells me they're praying, for themselves or others, especially around these recent disasters, like the fires and hurricanes this is the image that comes to my mind:
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That negative connotation will of course bleed over into any usage of the term 'prayer'.
It's sure to be shared all around Facebook too.
Yoga and Chardonnay. Yum. Knew I liked her. 
