To catalogue here as well~ I will share what I write on the FFF International page in case FB shuts down.

🔗https://www.facebook.com/share/18NtaMEXox/

‘Studies on other social movements suggest that activist burnout is a major threat to the sustainability of activist or social movement organizations, eventually playing a role in the effectiveness of a movement.’

You can not pour from an empty cup.

‘Activism is “not just a job”. Rather, she notes, it is usually a vocation intimately linked to an individual’s identity and social network.’

‘Activists often want to “keep going”…’

Full stop! —We do NOT want you to self-destruct into fatigue, burnout or other health implications.

Remember the “Penguin Huddle”?? 🐧

We MUST be a TEAM and we must take turns for one another. Holding space for one another.

Allowing room to be and breathe.

‘Case studies identified several stressors in activist activity, which seem to apply to different fields within activism. They can be categorized as interpersonal, organizational, and structural. The first category, interpersonal stressors (also “within-movement” stressors), refers to relational conflicts between activists’

‘Activists may be stressed due to disrespectful or violent behavior within the movement, fueled, for example, by political conviction and the idea that there is only one right form of activism’— we have also seen other factors of exclusivity within our own movement.

We must be self aware and accountable for how we treat others and ourselves.

You must connect your own safety hook before you help others and before consistently diving in to rescue others, perhaps find out the root of why the rescue must occur.

Take a step back and know that we are one.

Age, gender, religion + …those are just the extras that make you who you are, it shouldn’t define you as a means to push you or others out or diminish your voices or others.

Be authentically you. Breathe. Heal.

Heal for you, for the Earth, for future generations, and for others as to not push unwanton projections unto your colleagues, friends, allies, the environment and yourself!

Yes, you. Your being. How you speak to yourself. Do you build yourself up? Or do you break yourself apart? For you or for others? Or do you find yourself doing it to others?

Our existence is contingent upon a strong community, and a community’s strength is, in turn, dependent on its unity.

Without unity, the fight for a better, thriving future is harder. Why make it harder?

Collaborate- be that ‘penguin huddle’ because sometimes, you have to take a step back to heal and for growth to continue. Don’t do it alone, you aren’t alone. Everyone is welcome and everyone IS needed.

🔗 Study Link in comments.

What are you looking forward to this week?
What makes you, YOU?
What words of encouragement do you have for others?

Leave them below in the comments.

🔗https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12130585/

We can either heal and grow together or become stagnant and crumble like the bourgeoisie wants of us.

Heal, so we can continue to outnumber them. They want us unhealthy and divided.

Do not feel shame or guilt by going against the grain of what the status quo wants and instead, heal and be and give the capacity you have to give, not what others expect of you.

We have to be a team so we can have that penguin huddle.

Know when you need to take that step back. You aren’t giving up and you aren’t alone. Embrace self preservation.

Don’t let someone else judge you for your form of activism or for taking time to heal.

#StressKills