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  • I’m literally too exhausted to write from a very long day in Dunkirk so thought this was an apt question. One of the blogs (now book chapter) I wrote when I was sick was “Patriarchy makes me tired”. It was a cathartic rant mostly around division of labour in my collectives but it struck a chord with so many people. From feeling perpetually taken for granted to being used for sex and social capital in the anarchist movement. You can find it here: https://solidarityapothecary.org/overcoming-burnout-part-6-patriarchy-makes-me-tired/ What patriarchal bullshit exhausts you? How does it contribute to burnout? #overcomingburnout #burnout #collectivecare #care #chronicillness #health #recovery #patriarchy #sexism #heteronormativity #feminism
  • Apologies! I’m getting so little time on my phone as out in the field with Herbalists without Borders in Calais. For folks who completed your pre-order, they are at the printers and I should get them on the 23rd December and will post them out to you! 🤝🎁 Okay so today’s question is what situations that you’ve faced a hundred times before now feel harder? I ask this because when I was rapidly burning out hard, everything I had done a million times before just felt increasingly impossible. Whether that was coping with prison visits or things as simple as emails. My capacity to cope with stress spiralled out of control and I just couldn’t do it anymore. Is there anything in your life right now that feels the same? #overcomingburnout #burnout #collectivecare #care #chronicillness #health #recovery
  • A bit late today because of an incredibly hectic day in Calais and Dunkirk! This one is a big one.... what shattered dreams do you carry with your organising work? It was weird thinking about today’s post because a close friend got in touch with some more evidence of state-capitalist cooperation in the wave of repression against the campaign which was the backbone of my life many years ago and it reminded me once again of that shattered dream. The dream of closing that lab down which is still torturing animals all these years later. Shattered dreams can accumulate, the grief can go unprocessed and this was a major aspect of my burnout. What did you not achieve that you wanted to? Which memories haunt you of animals left in cages or friends stuck in prison? What project simply failed to become what you dreamt it would be? Which revolutionary dreams have you let go of which break your heart? #overcomingburnout #burnout #collectivecare #care #chronicillness #health #recovery #shattereddream #grief #loss #change #resistance #repression
  • Tomorrow is your last chance to get on this merch order! I don’t have the cash flow (sadly!) to bulk buy things without orders in advance so if you want a Herbalism = Mutual Aid hoodie, tee or vest top please order now! All money generated is spent on posting books to prisoners 👌🖤💚⛓🌱 Thanks so much in advance! You can get them on the store page of solidarityapothecary.org #radicalherbalism #mutualaid #merch
  • Packing up to go to Calais tomorrow and appreciating all the supplies we have been donated this month. Nikki, Jo and Migella from the Plant Medicine School in Ireland made a ton of oils that we can use for future chest rubs, as well as tea tree, vitamin C and more! Lucy from the @myo clinic has kindly donated some Myrrh Tincture and Melissa from Devon organised a chest rub workshop and posted us 32 tubs! 😍❤️🖤 This is the model we are trying to build with grassroots and autonomous groups doing medicine making work in their communities to share skills while supplying the front lines in Northern France and elsewhere 👊❤️🖤 Also a massive thank you again to everyone who donated to the crowdfunder to keep us going 😭❤️🖤 #herbalistswithoutborders #noborders #refugeeswelcome #calais #mutualaid #solidarity #herbalmedicine #radicalherbalism
  • After talking about performative self care practices yesterday, today’s question is more about what actually works for you? What tools work for you and what different types of healing practices are congruent with your politics? I live not too far from Glastonbury in the south west of England and the whole town is awash with people of every stripe offering every kind of therapy under the sun. But when I got sick, I found it really hard to find practitioners who aligned with my values and politics (let alone that I could afford). Part of my fourth blog (now book chapter) involved setting my own criteria for my healing strategies these were: • Holistic, not reductionist • Ecological • Placed in social-political context. Awareness of bigger patterns of oppression/ecosystem health/societal structures etc. Congruent with my politics. • Non culturally-appropriating • Strong evidence base and actually effective • Ideally DIY/Empowering/Horizontal – I want healing to be an empowering experience that connects me to my body, not disassociates me with it, or leaves me feeling powerless, guilty, anxious or body-hating. I want to work with practitioners as allies, and challenge the power-over dynamic of reductionist/capitalist healthcare • Accessible – I can financially and energetically afford whatever the support is. This was a big list and maybe in hindsight unachievable in my small Somerset town but these criteria were incredibly helpful for me in navigating a maze of options. When you’re burnt out and in chronic pain you are seriously vulnerable to practitioners so this was an attempt to safeguard myself and my needs before trying to access the support I so desperately needed at the time. Likewise, it was just about finding practitioners, it was about trying to find healing modalities that worked for me beyond herbalism. #overcomingburnout #burnout #collectivecare #care #chronicillness #health #recovery
  • How was your weekend folks? An interesting question today is how are you performing self care to others? I ask this because our culture spews out a ton of stuff that is pitched as a good ‘self-care’ activity, from having baths to going to the gym. ‘Wellness’ is commodified and atomised and normally comes with some kind of price tag. Likewise, because burnout is placed as a highly individual-being-responsible-for-themselves kind of thing, we are often asked how we are doing that. Yes we might be smashing it in a campaign but are we also eating our greens and all that other shit? And if we get sick, we are to blame right because we didn’t do all the stuff we are meant to do?! Sigh. Friends used to comment that I’d come back from prison visits and just immediately get on my computer and do some kind of organising work. One day I got defensive and said, you know what, this actually helps me. I go in there and I feel powerless, I feel so much rage in my chest and all I want to do when I come out is build this abolitionist movement so leave me the alone. I was shocked at my reaction but it was a big learning experience that I was actually very clear about what I needed in that moment. It was a reminder that struggle is self care. That sometimes the best way to take care of ourselves is to fight back and feel empowered by that. This doesn’t minimise the importance of taking care of our bodies (with mutual aid) but it does ask of us to be brutally honest about our needs and desires, which I think is pretty revolutionary 👌🖤❤️ #overcomingburnout #burnout #collectivecare #care #chronicillness #health #recovery #organise
  • ‪Tomorrow morning I will be posting a box of the Prisoner’s Herbal books to Haven Distribution - an amazing books to prisoners project who actually sent me a book inside in 2009! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought a book or some merchandise recently, this is exactly what the money goes on. 💞🤝🖤‬ ‪About Haven: Haven Distribution is a grassroots charity that has been‬ ‪distributing free books to prisoners in the UK since 2001. They purchase books for folks doing courses in prison, provide dictionaries for people whose English is not a first language and provide large print dictionaries and books on improving reading and writing skills to people with dyslexia. Haven also provides prisoners a free catalogue of donated books from publishers, and books that are bought cheaply from remainder bookshops. These books range from Social Sciences such as Philosophy and Criminology, to Black Interest and political science, plus some fiction and graphic novels. They are currently running a Christmas appeal to help get books for 100 young people imprisoned in HMP Polmont YOI as well as dads in HMP Oakwood and HMP Whitemoor to give to their children.‬ ‪Check them out at: https://www.havendistribution.org.uk‬ #prisonersherbal #prisonersolidarity #abolition #prisonersupport #herbalism #radicalherblism #solidarity #bookstoprisoners #mutualaid

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