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September 2024: rest & burnout

Each month, we break down our topic into four weekly modules. Catch up on previous editions here.​

This week's module: WATCH

• ✅ READ | What is burnout and how does it relate to activism?
• ✅ WATCH | The 7 types of rest​
• 🎯 ACT | Actions you can commit to for true self- and collective-care (TODAY)
• REFLECT | Share your commitment to caring more and resting more (9/25/24)

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes for the action plan

Here's what we'll learn today Reader

I am so glad to hear your stories of taking one of the 7 types of rest. The best news for today is that our ACT module will be super duper short... because the main action is to rest!

So honestly?? Delete this email and go outside. Don't even bother reading it.

But if you do bother, you'll see a few tips and actions you can commit to for collective care and a more healed climate movement.

P.S. shoutout to Lara and Sara for joining our membership community this week! We wouldn't be able to do this work without you (like forreal)

Your bite-sized action plan Reader

✅ ACT by resting. Bye!

1. Make yourself or a friend a card with the 7 types of rest. Visual reminders go a long way towards self-care and collective-care. ​
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2. Call the Nap Ministry Hotline. You can call 1-888-LUV-NAPS (588-6277) for yourself or a friend which is a message of care recorded under a blanket.
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3. ​Get a climate coloring book for your creative rest. You've probably seen Nicole Kelner's illustrations before, and she just launched a clean energy coloring book! Mainstream self-care is all about buying stuff, so I wasn't sure if I wanted to recommend something that costs money, but this is different: you're supporting an independent creator and getting 50 pages of relaxation.
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4. Advocate for a four-day workweek if you're able to. This video shares how work is killing us and the planet. In a Microsoft Japan office trial, their offices used 23% less electricity and 59% fewer sheets of paper. An analysis from the UK shows that the country's carbon footprint could be slashed by 127 MILLION TONNES. That's a 21.3% cut to the UK's total yearly emissions!
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5. Join a community for spiritual rest. Consider joining Soapbox Project's membership community. Or maybe for you, it's a local running club. Or crochet circle. Or a mosque. As you learned in last week's Changeletter, feeling "a deep sense of belonging, love, acceptance and purpose" is key to healing burnout!

Bonus action: read Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

And sure, you can buy candles and bath bombs or whatever. (I love a good bath, and it IS part of my self-care. It's just not the whole picture.) But we need collective care more than anything. That's why most of the actions above aren't just about you. Because, as you know... we live in a society.

Or delete all your emails, go on a walk, and throw your phone in the ocean.

Wishing you so much love, rest, and rejuvenation,

Nivi