I’m excited to share a new private podcast!

This is an audio recording of the Overcoming Burnout book – with accompanying journal questions! Sign up to access a link to the show: https://solidarityapothecary.org/product/overcoming-burnout-podcast/

About the book:

Organising with others for human, animal and earth liberation can be one of the most empowering experiences alive. Yet frontline resistance comes with risks to our physical and emotional health that can lead many people to burn out and abandon social movements altogether.

This book is about overcoming burnout, linking the author’s journey of recovery with wider systemic forces such as classism, sexism and power dynamics in groups, poverty, chronic illness and ableism, as well as grief and trauma from prison and state repression. It is a call for models of mutual aid and collective care. Simultaneously deeply personal and acutely political, for anyone involved in grassroots organising, it is a must read.

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Welcome to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast with your host, Nicole Rose from the

Solidarity Apothecary.

This is your place for all things plants and

liberation.

Let's get started.

Hello.

Welcome back to the Frontline Herbalism

Podcast.

I just wanted to share a standalone

announcement.

So I have made another podcast which is a kind

of recording of the Overcoming Burnout book.

So, yeah, if you don't know this book, it was published in 2019.

It was kind of basically a. Yeah, kind of bringing together of a bunch of blogs I wrote

while I was like really chronically unwell in 2016 and 2017.

And yeah, it kind of went viral around the Internet and around the world.

And I got loads of people writing to me who'd been involved in different sort of social

struggles, just saying, like, how much their words had affected them and how similar they

felt.

And then I got approached by the anarchist publishers Active Distribution, who wanted to

publish it in a book which happened finally in 2019.

And yeah, it's been kind of ticking away as sales on my website and as physical copies,

but I wanted to record the audio version of it so that it is more accessible to folks and

more people can listen to it.

So, yeah, I've recorded all the chapters and I've also added some kind of journal questions

to help people reflect on where they're at in terms of their organizing and their burnout.

So you can get it on my website.

I'll put a link in the show notes.

It's basically in the source store.

Um, you have to put your email in to receive

the link, but you don't have to sign up to the newsletter if that makes sense.

You can just tick.

No, but if you'd like to join the newsletter,

then that's where I'm sharing a lot of my kind of writings and different things that are

happening, different calls for solidarity and stuff.

So, yeah, please check it out.

And if you didn't know what the book's about,

I'm going to read the kind of back cover blurb.

So it says organizing with others for human, animal and earth liberation can be one of the

most empowering experiences alive.

Yes. Yeah. Frontline resistance comes with risks to our physical and emotional health

that can lead many people to burn out and abandon social movements together.

This book is about overcoming burnout, linking the author's journey of recovery with wider

systemic forces such as classism, sexism, power dynamics and groups, poverty, chronic

illness and ableism, as well as grief and trauma from prison and state repression.

It is a call for models of mutual aid and collective care simultaneously.

Deeply personal and acutely political for anyone involved in grassroots organizing.

It is a must read.

Okay, so please go and check it out.

I'll put the link in the show notes.

I'd love to hear what you think.

I hope it is a useful offering to our communities right now.

Okay, take care.

Thanks so much for listening to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast.

You can find the transcript, the links, all the resources from the

show@solidarityapothecary.org podcast.