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Mollie I.'s avatar

I love the reminder to prioritize sleep over any other plans. When I was healing from burnout, it was the most important thing I did. Now that I live in my post-burnout recovery, whenever I start feeling those burnout feelings, sleep is often the solution, even if I have all these other plans. Thank you!

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Paige's avatar

Digesting our dreams is SUCH an interesting habit to add!

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Melissa's avatar

Thank you for all that you do! I love the both of you. I listen to your podcast Feminist Survival Project. Love it. Stronger than the fire!!!

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Emily Nagoski's avatar

🔥🔥🔥

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Dr Vicki Connop's avatar

Beautiful simple advice. Perfect 👌

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Michelle Dowd's avatar

yes

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Michelle Dowd's avatar

I love these practice ideas. I've been obsessively thinking (and writing) about practices all week.

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Rebecca E's avatar

Yes, yes, and F*CK YES to all of the above. Thanks for sharing!

And I hope y'all get some restorative times...

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Debra Taylor's avatar

I love the novelty of these recommendations. Thanks for sharing

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Art, Joy and Disability's avatar

Wonderful suggestions. I have a new word for what I do, I cannot help but do because of my pain: interception. 🙏

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Truth, Justice, and Dopamine's avatar

My dreams are always like…I have arms full of sick kittens and no carrier, I’m trying to cross the street to get them to the vet, but one climbs out of my arms, I run through traffic to pick it up and another one jumps out, and repeat 😅 or babies, or puppies, I think at one point there were baby snakes or lizards or something 😅 teacher/compulsive caregiver dreams are the BEST 🥴

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Richa Vadini Singh's avatar

Love the suggestion to work with dreams. It isn’t talked about just enough. I’ve been working with my dreams, on and off, for several years, and it’s more rewarding than any “rational” approach to self-healing.

One of my two Substack newsletters is dedicated to dream work, where I hope to document my experiments with dreams over the years.

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Federico Soto del Alba's avatar

Easy on the first one: wake up…

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Michelle Dowd's avatar

Practices have the power to shape who we are and who we aspire to become.

https://substack.com/profile/152985-michelle-dowd/note/c-82413606

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