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It’s all coming from a good place: your compassionate heart, your desire to make real change, your capacity for connection. You are not the problem here.
In fact, all the underlying factors that fuel the rage cycle can be redirected to fuel sustainable communal change. It just takes a few adjustments (some of which you’ve probably implemented in other areas of your life!):
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1. You are allowed to rest, even when shit is really, really bad. Like, every day. Even every hour you can find a few moments to disconnect and reset.
2. You need two big reminders as often as possible. One: You cannot fix everything. Two: everything cannot be fixed right now.
3. Meaningful connection is essential. Talk to a friend. Laugh together. Make a plan about a small way to help each other, your community, or someone who’s struggling.
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1. You are allowed to rest, even when shit is really, really bad. Like, every day. Even every hour you can find a few moments to disconnect and reset.
2. You need two big reminders as often as possible. One: You cannot fix everything. Two: everything cannot be fixed right now.
3. Meaningful connection is essential. Talk to a friend. Laugh together. Make a plan about a small way to help each other, your community, or someone who’s struggling.
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4. Find your superpower and hone it. Activism involves many different roles, and trying to do everything is not efficient or effective. The stuff that’s easy and magical for you is needed in the movement.
5. Allow for integration of urgent activist work without abandoning your core mission. Maybe that means something as simple as cooking a meal for a friend who’s on the ground, while your primary role is behind the scenes.
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4. Find your superpower and hone it. Activism involves many different roles, and trying to do everything is not efficient or effective. The stuff that’s easy and magical for you is needed in the movement.
5. Allow for integration of urgent activist work without abandoning your core mission. Maybe that means something as simple as cooking a meal for a friend who’s on the ground, while your primary role is behind the scenes.
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I’ve got a lot more to share, but I want to keep today’s message simple. Forward this to a friend who needs to hear it. Take a breather. Give yourself permission to not have it all figured out right now, to be confused and overwhelmed. The exhaustion doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re ready to break out of this cycle and put down some deeper roots.
I love you, and I’m proud of you.
Nat
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I’ve got a lot more to share, but I want to keep today’s message simple. Forward this to a friend who needs to hear it. Take a breather. Give yourself permission to not have it all figured out right now, to be confused and overwhelmed. The exhaustion doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re ready to break out of this cycle and put down some deeper roots.
I love you, and I’m proud of you.
Nat
8/9
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#uspol #uspolitics #activism #activist #sustainableactivism #rage #trump #ice #justiceforrenee #news
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4. Find your superpower and hone it. Activism involves many different roles, and trying to do everything is not efficient or effective. The stuff that’s easy and magical for you is needed in the movement.
5. Allow for integration of urgent activist work without abandoning your core mission. Maybe that means something as simple as cooking a meal for a friend who’s on the ground, while your primary role is behind the scenes.
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What every US citizen can do NOW:
get an ever growing mass of concerned to contact their reps, write/phone/email/scream outside their offices, with #impeachment demand, or, we #primary you with someone who will; find those candidates https://www.citizensimpeachment.com/
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative#do #Democracy
Dear US Congressmember:
As your constituent, I am demanding:
Get together with your fellow representatives and Impeach President Trump, asap. ... -
I’ve got a lot more to share, but I want to keep today’s message simple. Forward this to a friend who needs to hear it. Take a breather. Give yourself permission to not have it all figured out right now, to be confused and overwhelmed. The exhaustion doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re ready to break out of this cycle and put down some deeper roots.
I love you, and I’m proud of you.
Nat
8/9
@nat Thank you, I really needed this one today.
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@nat Thank you, I really needed this one today.
@RodentRachel **hugs** I'm glad it helped! Take care of yourself.
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@RodentRachel **hugs** I'm glad it helped! Take care of yourself.
@nat 🫂❤️
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I’ve got a lot more to share, but I want to keep today’s message simple. Forward this to a friend who needs to hear it. Take a breather. Give yourself permission to not have it all figured out right now, to be confused and overwhelmed. The exhaustion doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re ready to break out of this cycle and put down some deeper roots.
I love you, and I’m proud of you.
Nat
8/9
@nat I was the person who needed to hear that. Thank you.
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My latest newsletter:
The rage cycle sucks.
Here's how to break free.https://buttondown.com/impureleftist/archive/the-rage-cycle-sucks/
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#writing #writersofmastodon #newsletter #activism #PoliticalActivism #politics #uspolitics #ice
@nat If I may:
6. Maintain your rolling ToDo list and use rage to push you through the backlog. -
@nat If I may:
6. Maintain your rolling ToDo list and use rage to push you through the backlog.@8petros yesss it can be so helpful!!
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I’ve got a lot more to share, but I want to keep today’s message simple. Forward this to a friend who needs to hear it. Take a breather. Give yourself permission to not have it all figured out right now, to be confused and overwhelmed. The exhaustion doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re ready to break out of this cycle and put down some deeper roots.
I love you, and I’m proud of you.
Nat
8/9
@nat I know this, and I say this, but I needed it from outside my own head today, thank you.
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What every US citizen can do NOW:
get an ever growing mass of concerned to contact their reps, write/phone/email/scream outside their offices, with #impeachment demand, or, we #primary you with someone who will; find those candidates https://www.citizensimpeachment.com/
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative#do #Democracy
Dear US Congressmember:
As your constituent, I am demanding:
Get together with your fellow representatives and Impeach President Trump, asap. ...@libramoon @nat read the room
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