I am so moved by what you are saying ECM. Your raw vulnerability to express where you are with the regime, how difficult it is to keep up, and how the trauma impacts you and all of us daily. My gawd the fatigue alone. I have been following your newsletter for years because of your keen insights and superb writing skills. Of course it has been erratic, look at what all you are doing. I for one am going no where and will continue to subscribe knowing you will write when you can and/or have the will. We must continue to take action wherever and however we can . All movement forward is a push back on fascism . Thank you for this honest, gut wrenching piece. I stand with you!!!
Please just show up when you can. I prefer to read your commentary and watch your video because, as you just stated, you did the difficult work of actually reading the horror stories and watching the horrible videos and listening to the disgusting and disgraceful rambles of certain deranged people, so that I don't have to. But who will protect you? Do what you need to do to take care of yourself and your family and I will be here.
ECM, you're not alone in your feelings. Know we are here to support you. These same types of questions came up at a meeting Saturday. We all shared what was in our hearts. HOPE that we are making a change was the overall outcome. Please take care of yourself. We understand and appreciate all you and your team do daily!!! Blessings!
Thank you for your honest expression of being overwhelmed. So many of us rely on you, that has to be both fulfilling and daunting. In the 9 months or so that I’ve been listening to you I have learned so much, and you have empowered me to take steps to move the needle in this dystopian world we find ourselves in. Your perspective has saved me more than once, and I can’t get that from anywhere else, but you’ve also given me so many other outlets to get my information and I hope that your frustration can be assuaged in knowing how much you’re helping.
Take care of yourself and your family, nothing else is more important. tRump can’t have that.
I was pleasantly surprised you were in my inbox this morning. You do enough. I like your long form writing. I can wait for content. This should not be a chore or a thing on the to do list. I’m here and staying.
You have been my main source since ?? 2018?? I share you as a resource all the time. Didn't realize I wasn't a paid member here so just signed up.
Anyway, as for your state, we hear you. Nervous system work is my wheelhouse, but lately overwhelm as been present consistently.
What can your listeners do to support you? Do you have a request? That would help financially, but seems like there is a component of how to address a nervous system that is not able to access parasympathetic.
Thanks for asking. Believe it or not, my operations director is also a hypnotherapist trained in parasympathetic nervous system regulation. We have a lot of skills in our toolkit here.
I am glad you were able to release some of this burden, Elizabeth. You know your core followers WILL NEVER leave you, nor pull their paid subscriptions. Hell.....I'm going to up mine and hope a lot of others will do the same. You always encapsulate perfectly how difficult this work, and fight are, and you are the reason many of us are even able to get out of bed some days. Please know you are doing everything you can possibly do, and that is so much more than enough!!
I don't need you to be regular. I have Heather Cox Richardson (who is not raising young kids) for regular. I need you to be you, which nobody else can be. But you can't be either if you don't get some rest. I'm staying.
You said exactly what I have been feeling. Too much content is flooding my inbox, and I delete most of it. I really appreciate your thoughtful and vulnerable message about where you are and what you need to do. I am in!
I’m with you every step of the way. Please trust your intuition and rest/re-engage/renew whenever you need to. Remember “chronos” vs. “kairos” (clock time vs. “timing”). Trust your own sense of timing. We’ll still be here, covering each other’s long notes like choirs know how to do “choral breathing” to sustain the music over the long stretches.
After reading all the comments so far, I'll just say ditto to them, and I am not going anywhere. I receive a lot of notifications for new posts from many Substack writers too and there just isn't time to read them.
Yours never get passed over. xo to you and your family.
Thank you for your raw honesty, this is all so much more than any of us could have been prepared to handle. I can only imagine the added weight that you and others have, to be there to “talk people off the ledge” constantly. I hope that you have the support from friends and family in your home life to have someone who does the same for you.
Your work is important, and the light is on here for you. Whether you can write once a week or once a month or once a quarter. I try to remember that we are all doing the best we can in the moment that we are in.
I will not leave you, either. You provide me with information that I can't get from anyone else, namely, the legal perspective on all this craziness going on. I have been following you since Facebook days and you are like a friend. You are real. I trust you. I feel like if I saw you on the street I could just walk up and give you a hug and say hi (don't worry, I wouldn't - ha ha). I must admit that I don't really utilize most of what you have to offer, other than your daily podcasts. If I may make a suggestion, I think maybe you should give some real thought to what you do best, what makes you unique from the other podcasters out there and narrow your focus. Maybe take a poll of your followers and see which of your programs matter most to them. I'm sure the reason you have branched out and are doing so many things has been to increase your revenue sources but maybe there are other ways than writing? Just thinking out loud. Clearly something has to give, and we all want you and your kids to be OK. You are loved and appreciated.
I will not leave you! Firm believer here that if you don’t take care of yourself first, you can’t take care of anything else.
I am so moved by what you are saying ECM. Your raw vulnerability to express where you are with the regime, how difficult it is to keep up, and how the trauma impacts you and all of us daily. My gawd the fatigue alone. I have been following your newsletter for years because of your keen insights and superb writing skills. Of course it has been erratic, look at what all you are doing. I for one am going no where and will continue to subscribe knowing you will write when you can and/or have the will. We must continue to take action wherever and however we can . All movement forward is a push back on fascism . Thank you for this honest, gut wrenching piece. I stand with you!!!
Please just show up when you can. I prefer to read your commentary and watch your video because, as you just stated, you did the difficult work of actually reading the horror stories and watching the horrible videos and listening to the disgusting and disgraceful rambles of certain deranged people, so that I don't have to. But who will protect you? Do what you need to do to take care of yourself and your family and I will be here.
ECM, you're not alone in your feelings. Know we are here to support you. These same types of questions came up at a meeting Saturday. We all shared what was in our hearts. HOPE that we are making a change was the overall outcome. Please take care of yourself. We understand and appreciate all you and your team do daily!!! Blessings!
Thank you for your honest expression of being overwhelmed. So many of us rely on you, that has to be both fulfilling and daunting. In the 9 months or so that I’ve been listening to you I have learned so much, and you have empowered me to take steps to move the needle in this dystopian world we find ourselves in. Your perspective has saved me more than once, and I can’t get that from anywhere else, but you’ve also given me so many other outlets to get my information and I hope that your frustration can be assuaged in knowing how much you’re helping.
Take care of yourself and your family, nothing else is more important. tRump can’t have that.
I was pleasantly surprised you were in my inbox this morning. You do enough. I like your long form writing. I can wait for content. This should not be a chore or a thing on the to do list. I’m here and staying.
You have been my main source since ?? 2018?? I share you as a resource all the time. Didn't realize I wasn't a paid member here so just signed up.
Anyway, as for your state, we hear you. Nervous system work is my wheelhouse, but lately overwhelm as been present consistently.
What can your listeners do to support you? Do you have a request? That would help financially, but seems like there is a component of how to address a nervous system that is not able to access parasympathetic.
Thanks for asking. Believe it or not, my operations director is also a hypnotherapist trained in parasympathetic nervous system regulation. We have a lot of skills in our toolkit here.
Good to hear!! Hope you can get some good hands on bodywork there in NYC…take care ECM🤗
Backing you all the way. Happy to read here whenever. I feel my small contribution is in support of everywhere you post, not just here.
I am glad you were able to release some of this burden, Elizabeth. You know your core followers WILL NEVER leave you, nor pull their paid subscriptions. Hell.....I'm going to up mine and hope a lot of others will do the same. You always encapsulate perfectly how difficult this work, and fight are, and you are the reason many of us are even able to get out of bed some days. Please know you are doing everything you can possibly do, and that is so much more than enough!!
I don't need you to be regular. I have Heather Cox Richardson (who is not raising young kids) for regular. I need you to be you, which nobody else can be. But you can't be either if you don't get some rest. I'm staying.
You said exactly what I have been feeling. Too much content is flooding my inbox, and I delete most of it. I really appreciate your thoughtful and vulnerable message about where you are and what you need to do. I am in!
I’m with you every step of the way. Please trust your intuition and rest/re-engage/renew whenever you need to. Remember “chronos” vs. “kairos” (clock time vs. “timing”). Trust your own sense of timing. We’ll still be here, covering each other’s long notes like choirs know how to do “choral breathing” to sustain the music over the long stretches.
After reading all the comments so far, I'll just say ditto to them, and I am not going anywhere. I receive a lot of notifications for new posts from many Substack writers too and there just isn't time to read them.
Yours never get passed over. xo to you and your family.
Thank you for your raw honesty, this is all so much more than any of us could have been prepared to handle. I can only imagine the added weight that you and others have, to be there to “talk people off the ledge” constantly. I hope that you have the support from friends and family in your home life to have someone who does the same for you.
Your work is important, and the light is on here for you. Whether you can write once a week or once a month or once a quarter. I try to remember that we are all doing the best we can in the moment that we are in.
I will not leave you, either. You provide me with information that I can't get from anyone else, namely, the legal perspective on all this craziness going on. I have been following you since Facebook days and you are like a friend. You are real. I trust you. I feel like if I saw you on the street I could just walk up and give you a hug and say hi (don't worry, I wouldn't - ha ha). I must admit that I don't really utilize most of what you have to offer, other than your daily podcasts. If I may make a suggestion, I think maybe you should give some real thought to what you do best, what makes you unique from the other podcasters out there and narrow your focus. Maybe take a poll of your followers and see which of your programs matter most to them. I'm sure the reason you have branched out and are doing so many things has been to increase your revenue sources but maybe there are other ways than writing? Just thinking out loud. Clearly something has to give, and we all want you and your kids to be OK. You are loved and appreciated.
Just upgraded to Paid. Take care of yourself as job one.