Every now and then an audiobook has a feature I didn’t know I needed. This morning I am listening to a chapter about (political) organizing with a chronic illness, and you can hear the author-narrator yawning as she gets through it. Big love from this reader who is also too tired today.
Book is Overcoming Burnout, by Nicole Rose, done as a free private podcast feed. (Nicole is a herbalist I admire, who also wrote The Prisoner’s Herbal, and Herbalism and State Violence.)
For anybody who needs support to stop spiralling these days, here is my current favourite active meditation practice for lefties. Kristianna Smith aka Mocha Einstein offers “Grieve, Ground, Imagine, Strategize”. Gently redirect that anxiety spiral into forward momentum.
I appreciate that you can do longer or shorter versions of this. I appreciate that it is oriented towards organizing and strategizing, without ignoring or bottling up the pain and grief. Organizing and strategizing are so good for mental and community health! But skipping over grief leads to bad organizing. The combo is much better.
I appreciate having a structured, somatic activity to move through a little bit of grief at a time. Keep things moving. I appreciate having directions for moving forward instead of spiraling. It is much easier to do “something else” rather than “stop”.
Not sure Kristianna would call themself a witch, but this is also some really solid time magic for any interested witches.