Social Justice Activists, Environmental Fatigue, and the Restorative Practices of Doing “The Work That Reconnects”

This chapter looks at a group, Woman’s Way Red Lodge (WWRL), who provides a healing space for activists suffering from environmental fatigue due to the intersectional social justice issues. It explores WWRL and learn about the practice of magick, Hoop communities, and alternative symbolics, and discusses burnout, environmental fatigue, and social dramas. WWRL strives to create a power-from-within model versus a power-over structure. The purpose of WWRL is as follows: Responding to an urgent call to restore balance, we build community and connection in safe and healing spaces for discovering, growing and sustaining the joyful warrior within each of us. WWRL as a non-profit embraces alternative ways of knowing that attempt to enliven the senses. The practices of self-care in order to do the important environmental social justice work that this moment demands are not typical and not mainstream.