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Dadward takes a break (Patreon)

Published:
2023-08-10 23:00:32
Imported:
2026-06

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Kary Forth

Take your time. We want you to be better more than we want your podcasts.

Chris Brewer

Hope you feel better soon. Enjoy your time off.

Stephanie Broertjes

We have a whole back catalog to listen to! I hope your healing continues and the vacation goes well! Sending love <3

Aminah

Love you!!

Kari McCollum

Take the much needed time to heal emotionally and physically! Sending good vibes to you pod dad✨

Audrey

Take all the time you need 🌸 we’ll all still be here whenever you’re ready :)

Kyle Harper

Take as long of a break as you need. We will still be here!

Jakin Yang

All of us ologites support you DadWard

MaKayla Morris

I finally have time to catch up on all the backlog! 😂

Alex Glow

Take all the time! Touch all the grass! We’ll be here whenever you are ready to come back. 💜

Elta Sparks

Love you dadward. Please take a break more often than every 6 years haha. Feel better 🖤

Izalina Bittencourt

Rest up!! We will be here when you get back, so happy to hear you’re taking care of yourself❤️❤️

Kimberly Butts

YOU have to come first! Take good care, sweet sweet soul. 💙

Katie McCreary

Proud of you for taking care of yourself! Sending healing and relaxing thoughts your way

Beth Weese

You could take every summer off and we would be here when you return. Enjoy your break!

Jordan

Please please take care of yourself, Dadward! Your health is more important than our entertainment and we'll be ready to welcome you back once you're feeling better!

Keith Miller

Considering you’re my favorite internet dad, please do TAKE A BREAK! And then a vacation: Svalbard is super chill this time of year.

Marisa

You bring us so much Joy, but you can’t do your best if you don’t take care of yourself. Take the time, we support you 💕

Joy Johnson

Please listen to your body and to your doctor. I am quite familiar with being ill, exhausted, and lung stuff REAL REST Will do you a ton of good --And we will be here waiting for you to recover. Good luck and God bless.

Sacrificial

We love you. Take all the time you need. You got this

Dave Cannon

I've never wanted to give anyone more hugs and more money. But I hate being touched and have no money. Take your time. I lost my dad in 2018 I can't lose another.

Ry_ofthetiger

Go take care of our Dadward! We’ll be here when you get back (and we’ll be listening to old episodes and encores while you’re resting). ❤️‍🔥

Heather Clarke

I am glad you are taking the time to take care of yourself. In this day and age, we forget to be our own advocates and do what is best for us. Looking forward to hearing from you when you are better and well rested.

Bob Carleton

YOU deserve it. Vacation like a boss. We won't let anything happen to the place while you're gone 😉

Katie King

We will miss you, but I am excited to hear the guest intros for the encores! Thanks for modelling good self care pod-dad! Lots of love and I hope you get some rest!

Emma Catherine Beeler

Thank you for listening to your body, doctor, and friends. We all love what you do here but nothing is more important than your health. Take care and enjoy the break!

Lauren Dwight

Have an AMAZING vacation!!! Take all the time you need. You are a spectacular human and we only want the best for you.

Sarah

Enjoy every second of your well earned and overdue vacation. We’ll be here when you’re back!

Megan Lynch

Take care of yourself first. Always. We'll be here when you feel ready to return. I hope you have a great time and that you get to re-prime your well of health and creativity.

Gertlebob

We love you dad! Have a great holiday and we look forward to seeing you when you are well rested and feeling better. Take all the time you need 🥰

Anne Overly

Like you said, we all want you to take care of yourself- you deserve that rest and ESPECIALLY that vacation! We'll all be here when you get back ❤️

mary de voe

PLEASE take care of yourself! Nobody does what you do as wonderfully as you so of course we'll be here when you are healthy again. (Also, you didn't ask but I care so just throwing this out: Lungs are the organ of sadness. Feels take time. You do you. Sending love!

Rachel Bailis

Take all the time you need! Enjoy your vacation, you deserve it!

Monica Olvera

Dadward, this show literally saved my life during the pandemic. I love the show and the community , and have deep appreciation and gratitude to you. I wish you tranquility and peace. Please take all the time you need to rest. 💖

Britt Kline

I Hope you take more frequent-than-every-6-years breaks from now on! YOU deserve it, too! We love you so much and totally support you. Selfcare, is actually necessary to survival, Podpop, you can do it! Rest, heal, enjoy. And - UPDATES?! Yay! I’m very excited about that piece, thank you 🥰✨💖✨

Emory Blair

Take care of yourself like you take care of everyone else! You deserve good things and kindness without having to exchange your well-being for them. We'll be here when you're ready and in the mean time will revel in all of the wonderful content you have already poured your heart and soul into!

Natalie Campbell

Have a peaceful and relaxing vacation! 💜💜

Maria Kumro

Dadward, you deserve it too! Take a break, sit on the beach, and get healthy. If anyone tries to complain, I will personally scold them individually. We'll still be right here when you get back, no matter how long you take ❤️

JKH

You have not disappointed me! I'm glad to hear you're taking cake of yourself. Try to enjoy this time.

FondoDondo35

Heal up!!! - I'm new to Patreon but so in love with the work you do and how accessible work is. You are a bright star in my day, like so many others I am so appreciative for what you do.

Renee Wanger

I'm honestly kind of excited to get a chance to catch up on the backlog of episodes :) enjoy the break!

Dave

Every craftsperson knows that if you want to make great things, you have to take care of your tools. This includes the tools that are permanently attached to your brain. We just enjoyed our first leisure travel after a truly hellish year and it is amazing how much good it did for us. Enjoy your trip and feel better!

Becks Woodruff

Yes! Take a break! Take as much time as you need to relax and heal, and know that we all love you and want you treat yourself exactly the way you always encourage us to treat ourselves. 💛💛💛

Between Dumplings

2009?! I'd say you're due. You are also grieving (hello lungs) and you've been going nonstop! I'm grateful you are modeling good responsible adulting. And now I have time to catch up, having discovered this wonderful world very lately.

J

Time to catch up on my episodes! Hope your break is as healing and restful as it is needed and deserved. You are so loved! We will be here when you get back!

cash.ruska

Absolutely love this for you and am EXTREMELY proud of ya for making this call, Dadward!

Shannon Kirk

I only discovered the wonder that is you and this show about a year ago, so I have SO many no-doubt amazing episodes to listen to. (Since then, my friend and I have gotten into fights over who would get to try first to be your bestie if you ever moved to Vancouver Island. It's still in discussion.) You get well. And have some relaxy fun. And build, I don't know, sand castles or whatever when your hand gets sore from journaling. ❤️

Skylar P.

By all means, take the time you need. I'm taking a vacation next week before school starts up again (I'm a teacher), and this is a good reminder to shut my anxious work brain off then, too.

Christopher McCue

Get better and take what time you need - your health is more important than anything.

Lauren Hurlburt

Take care of yourself Dadward! We will all be here waiting for you when you come back. Can't take care of others if you don't take care of yourself! Be safe, feel better and have fun!

Kelly King

It's so sweet of you to take the time out to update us. Self care is so important! Please take all the time you need. Sending you all the good vibes! ❤

Don Elliot

Jeezum, don’t apologize for taking care of yourself! Everything will be fine and we’ll be glad to hear you when you get back. A break every 6 years….? Heck, go crazy and take a break every 3 years instead.

Clayton Harding

You deserve a vacation, and not just one. You should take 1 or 2 a year.

Karen Derzic

We love you Ally and will always take encode episodes if it means that you are taking care of yourself or your amazing family. We will see you when you are rested.

Nolan Childerhose

Thanks for everything you do, Dadward! Take all the time you need (plus more.)

phinn markson

for realz. YOU gotta take care of you. If there is no you then there is no OLOGIES. Then what???? I do not want to go back to a pre ologies life.

Melissa Wise

Lady, we all love you so much and want you to be healthy and happy. Take a week or a year, your supporters will always be here for you. To the haters who don't recognize the importance of self-care, you don't need them in your life anyway. P.s. Jarrett's aside this morning was so lovely, I laughed and cried all in the space of just those few minutes

Kelley Cato

We love you to bits. Enjoy your break. We'll be here when you get back. 💜

Annabelle

You deserve a real break, I hope it’s relaxing!

Tonya Connell

take care of you- that is most important - take as long as you need.

Brie

take care of yourself, we love u

Celeste

Alie - you're an awesome person. You give and give. You don't owe us or anyone anything. Please fill up your cup! You would want the same for us. I want you and ologies to be around for the long term, no matter how often, so rest up and enjoy!

Chaz Moore

I’m so happy to hear you’re taking time to heal and a real vacation!! I hope you get better soon and we’ll be here whenever you’re ready to come back 🫶

Brenden O'Donnell

I appreciate you modeling the kind of self care and healthfulness that you teach in the podcast. Please take care and enjoy yourself and we will enjoy the encore episodes!

Lindsay Harrigan

We love you, we support you, we want you to be healthy. Enjoy that time off!

Rebecca Wolf

We all deserve joy and kindness in this fleshy existence and sometimes the kindest people don’t reserve enough for themselves. Please take care and fill up 💕

Laura McLean

We will all be here waiting for you. Take as much time as you need. Please do. We love you and only want you to be well. Proud of you. ❤️

Caitlyn Cook

Love you, Dadward! Go have a fantastic, restorative, beautiful vacation. We'll be here to welcome you back when your mind and body are ready to be back, whenever that is. Don't rush it. Be kind to yourself. <3

Amazingkait

Someone reminded me recently that I told them, "Self-care is sexy". Sometimes I surprise myself with how smart I am. And recently I've been saying, "No unspoken expectations", which has lowered my anxiety to nearly nil. ...and while I'm spouting platitudes to the stranger who's gotten me through the last couple years and kept me feelings connected while the world feels so far away from me, I'll offer you the one I live by, "with Wonder, not Worry". We'll wonder about your adventure and what delights you'll have to share when you get back, please focus on wondering what's next instead of worrying about what you feel beholden to! You're the best.

Kevin Parichan

We're not going anywheres. Have a great vacation.

Cate Muenker

Fully support your need for self-care! As a mom, business owner, and wife of someone with mental health issues, I get that it’s hard to justify it and feel worthy, but you need it it so you can recover and relax and get up your energy to return and be your best pod-dad-self! See you on the flip-side! 🤙 😎🧘‍♀️🗺️😍

Nina Giacobbe

Have the most wonderful, relaxing, peaceful, joyous, and sleep-filled vacation. You deserve it!!!!

Abby Grieb

Get well soon!!!! Enjoy your vacay we will wait patiently for your return! 💕

Dean Deters

Please take the time you need. We’ll wait for you when you are healthy.

Blue Poems

Hi Dad. I love going back to listen to old episodes again so I’m looking forward to the new intros. I was heartbroken listening to the minisode this morning because it really sucks that you feel like you’re gonna lose everything you built if you take a vacation (not caring for your parents or squeezing an episode out of a trip). I’m grateful to the people who sat you down to force you to take a break. You deserve to rest. We’ll be waiting patiently and anyone who’s mean to you for taking care of yourself will be kicked in the shin.

Secnarf

GO! Get strong 💪

Wendy Fick

OMG Alie, please take care of yourself. We will still be here when you get back. I hope you are able to fully enjoy your vacation.❤️

Carissa Dev

Enjoy your vacation pod dad! We will be here when you’re ready and in good health. Thanks for the reminder that it’s okay and necessary to take a break 💚💚💚

Adam McInnes

Take a break!! Enjoy your vacation, have a wonderful time doing as little as possible and resting as much as possible. We will be here when you get back, no matter how long it takes.

Jessica Schlarbaum

Even poddads need a break! Relax and recover! We’ll all be patiently awaiting your healthy return when YOU’RE ready. ❤️

Mowana Lomaomvaya

We’ll be here when you come back☺️ Heal well!

Kasey Crouse

Go get sleep, breathe, reacquaint yourself with you time! We will still be here when you get back and are well! Hugs and love

Tomás Dodds

Take all the time you need to get healthy!

Lydia Lambe

You deserve a break! We will all be here when you come back. I hope you have a relaxing a healing vacation. ❤️

Dawn Dolobowsky

Yes!!! Enjoy your vacation and your time off. Rest. Get better. All those things.

John Stetler

Yay vacation for poddad! Hope you feel better soon!! We all love you!!

Kathryn Brignac

Rest up and enjoy your vacation! Hope you get to fully unplug from technology and just relax.

Cas

feel better soon! you totally deserve some time to kick back and relax!

Sarah

Enjoy that vacation Dadward, you deserve it soooo much!!! We'll all be here waiting for you and wishing you the best, and hey, I love relistening to old episodes anyway! It's no biggie!

Adam Drake

We are all sending you healing, caring vibes. Definitely take time for you. I hope you feel better and can actually rest and recharge. Good for you! 💪💪

Elizabeth A Halliday-Reynolds

You so deserve to rest and restore. Deserve is the wrong word... because it makes one think they have to drive "the self" to the ground in order to take a break. Taking care is fundamental and I hope you decide that you HAVE to take a real break more than once every 7 years! Future you will thank you. Your Journal prompts once you plop yourself on the sand, under your shade umbrella are... " How can I arrange my life that I take time off every "day, week, month, year" .... What does "time off" really mean for my body? What do I get to experience when I get to rest. What do I get to be when I show up in balance? How do I really unplug (looks different for everyone) and What do I get to say "no" to in order to protect this "timeoffness" I really need. PS This stranger adores you and I am seeing you well and thriving.

Fi Cameron

You could never disappoint your fans, we love you and we love Ologies. Most of all we love when you show yourself love. So happy that you’re taking a proper break and looking after yourself ❤️

Emersonsrd

Look after yourself, we'll all be here when you get back. Whenever that may be.

Heather Wallace

Yay, Vacations! No to every 6 years, yes to every 6 months! Hugs, Pod Dad.

Max G

I was honestly worried about you that new episodes were coming out so soon. I’m so glad you’re doing what you need for your health ❤️ Have a wonderful time and be safe in this surge. We got you Dad.

Deacon Raid

Feel better! When you come back, I know a mosquito-ologist and a geographic information system technologist who would be thrilled to be guests, but you can’t do the show unless you are well

Adam T. Berns

The only way you'd disappoint us is if you continued along your current trajectory to the detriment of both your physical and mental health. Like they tell you during the airplane safety spiel: put your mask on BEFORE helping others with theirs. You can't continue to bring us the awesome content that you do unless you're healthy, so follow your doctors' and PodMom's orders and do what you need to do to get healthy and recentered so that we can all enjoy Ologies for years to come! 🫶🖤

Julia Hutton

Dadward, you are hands down the best thing that's ever happened in this wild world. Thank you for taking care of yourself and being a so real with us. I was crying during that video because I wish so many people I love could take a moment, take a break, and reset. It is so good for our bodies, minds, and souls to slow down and rest. But of course, this is easier said than done! I'm sure I'm not alone when I say: You are an inspiration! You radiate love and curiosity. Your passion is contagious. You have helped so many of us nerds feel validated and loved, just by being you. I hope you have a fantastic vacation. What a magical surprise that we will have some re-releases of updated shows? I was honestly just going to enjoy the excuse to listen to the bryology episode on repeat... which I will definitely do anyway because that sounds delicious for my ears. Love from your biggest fan, Julia Schock

Honeybee

I hope you enjoy your time off and get back to good health! Your health (mental and physical) is so much more important than new content.

Christa Avampato

Dearest Alie! I know a tiny bit about needing to take a break to take care of health issues. YOU, as a human, not as a podcast host, actor, science communicaror, and all the wonderful titles you have, but as a human being need and deserve a rest any and every time you feel you need or want one. You do not need to earn your rest. You can just have it because you want and need it. No flower blooms all year. Not a single one. So why do we demand that of ourselves? Go, rest, play, smile, sleep, have fun. Do anything you want to do with this time. And whenever you feel ready, really ready, to come back, we'll all be here welcoming you with open arms and hearts. Okay? Okay. Love you!

Kaitlin Comet

It’s okay!!! Don’t worry about us!!! Don’t feel guilty!!! You deserve the break and space. We all want Ologies to last forever so you have to take care of yourself first. We will be here when you return from your journey and we will be ready to hear all about your reset ❤️

Archie George

Glad you are taking care of yourself! So glad you have PodMom and friends to take care of you!

Marina Li

Nothing is more important than your health!! DO NOT worry about us - take your time to really rest. Sending you all the love <3

Peter West

Take care. I, for one, will still be here whenever you are ready to get going again. Take a month, a year... or more if that's what it takes. We all want a healthy pod dad.

TJ Mckenna

What an absolute queen, you deserve this break!! Bless yourself with a vacation after blessing our ears for YEARS!! We love you and want you to recover, we’ll be here when you get back! 🩵

Jessica McCall

Alie/Dad Ward. Take a break, go on vacation, relax. We love you and Ologies and no one is going anywhere. We won’t move an inch. We promise. Hugs.

Brandi Harbaugh

YOU DESERVE TO PUT YOURSELF FIRST! Please take care of yourself. You can do this and please enjoy your vacation. Take time to do some things you want to do and enjoy the beauty around you. We love you and we will always be here for you Dadward. ❤️

Hannah

We're glad you're doing this for yourself, that's a hard but needed decision. We will be here when you get back. :) Enjoy the beach, Dadward!

Christina Samela

We love you for taking a break and honoring your own needs ❤️ A lesson that might resonate with you from a past teacher of mine is - do it at 70% if you want to do it forever. You can keep going at 70% SO much longer than you can at a hundred. It's worth it and you're worth it ❤️

Carol Ruda

We’ll all be there for you when you’re ready to return. Take care and be well.

Crystal Wilson

Take a break Dad! We will be here happily awaiting your healthy return!! ❤️🧬❤️

Angie Matthewson

Honestly, I’ve been thinking you need a break!! I’m so glad you’re taking it!!! Rest, relax, reset! 💕💕💕

Caroline Lambert

I've only listened to this podcast for a couple of years. A few weeks ago I downloaded a whole bunch of the early podcasts, and have been frustrated that I haven't had time to listen to them. So I am really looking forward to listening to some of those older podcasts as they show up in my podcast stream. And I'm sure that, like with movies that I've watched repeatedly, even if it's a podcast that I've heard already, I'll pay attention to different things and still learn something new. To be honest, there's so much information in each podcast that it's hard to absorb it all, so a repeat is just fine. I had a university professor once who said that we would retain about 20% of what we learned in each lecture, so he would repeat everything 5 times. Bottom line - repetition is not bad. Take whatever time you need, we'll still be here. Take care.

Felix Lasselle

We wouldn't have Ologies with YOU, you are the most important one. Enjoy your vacation, let the brain and body reset. We'll all be here for you when you get back, whenever that may be. I can confirm that doing nothing for a little bit is wonderfully healing. Take care of yourself PodDad 😊♥️

Greg Walloch

I adore you. I'm so glad you're taking a vacation. If you guys need anything please let me know. 💜

Peter J Roe

You’re awesome and you deserve a break. Hope you enjoy your time off and come back refreshed. Take care of yourself 🧡

Patrick Flanagan

The entire television industry is built on playing re-runs all summer... you and your little team deserve time off! We'll be here! Enjoy your vacation!

Another Middle Aged Guy Podcast

Life is short. Take care of you! Thank you for all you do and this is a great message and example to put out as well to live self care and not just say it! We will be here when you get back!

okayest mom

we will miss you, but GET YOURSELF BETTER! ❤️ you deserve the break and we will be here when you return eager to hear about your vacation 🩷🩷🩷 xoxo

poppy

I love reading all the supportive messages from everyone. Please take care of yourself! We all deserve rest and shouldn't have to wait until a major life event or health scare to take a break. We're here for ya however long you need.

Sarah Khanlian

Like everyone else here, I’m 100% in favor of you taking a real, restful, restorative BREAK!! And, like many others, I aim to take advantage of this opportunity to get caught up on my Ologies listening (even though I end up listening to the encores all the way through 🤣)!

Christina Shuy

Dad Ward, take the break. get better. relax. refresh. we as a community will still be here. Take care of you first. 💖❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶💝

Donald Hodges

The Podcast is one thing but You are another and we care about you. We won't go away.

Erin Unson

So happy to hear you’re taking time for yourself! We’ll miss you but will look forward eagerly to your return when you’re healthy and ready keep kicking ass and cutting bangs! Much love! Thanks for being a best friend for the past few years 🖤 (black heart in honor of your goth self)

Fred Wax

You are worth the wait! Please enjoy your time off, rest, and get better! And please don't wait 6 years for your next vacation! Summer reruns are a thing for a reason! Thank you for this amazing podcast!

Michelle Paer

We absolutely adore you!! Will be here when you get back. Take your time DadWard, you deserve it!!

Johanna Burr

Yes, please take a break Alie!! We think you're the cat's pajamas and totally support you. Don't worry, and enjoy the beach!

Jonathan Pannor

Dearheart, you have helped this queer, aging, disabled papa through sometimes very lonely years of living with 2 f-ing rough disabling conditions, at times literally my nerdy, funny fascinating community building life-line who supports my swearing habit (OK, 2 fucking rough disabling conditions!). Its great to hear you're doing the loving thing. Please care for yourself and let loved ones do so, as well. I'll be here as a listenner as long as it takes and of course support other choices and butterfly morphs if- as they come(in my heart and via Patreon). You have helped me so much!💜You've been my ally and I am yours!

Cat Galdun

Oh DadWard You remind me of my own dear dad, who never takes a break and owns his own business. He works so so hard but I remind him that it’s necessary for his health to get some R and R. Pls do so now and at regular intervals in the future! everything will be fine.

Sophie Byrne

You deserve a relaxing, refreshing break 🩷 please take care of yourself, feel better and remember that we love you!

Lee Ann McAvoy

Thank you for modeling healthy behavior! As a relatively new member of the community I welcome the opportunity to play a little catch-up. We’ll still be here when you get back! Enjoy your reboot!

Picklepot

I haven’t had a vacation since 2011, my mom passed in 2020, & now my dad is ill too. I feel your pain and know if you can take a break, DO IT!!! I will try to take your advice of 15 minutes a day for myself. Be well!

Julia Sweet

Please please please take care of you. And yes, for setting a good example to all of us to put our health, physical and mental, as a priority. 🫶🏻

Diane Heise

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. It is so true. Take care and we will all be there waiting for our dad ward.

Serena Palmer

Love this show and love that you’re taking care of yourself! We’ll be here when you get back. 🩷

Shannon Feltus

Alie!!! Everyone wants you healthy and happy ❤️💕❤️💕

Michelle Lee

I'm so glad you are taking this time off, and appreciate you modeling this type of self-care. Hope this time is restful and healing and you can enjoy the vacation. We all deserve to care for ourselves!!!

Stephanie Trout Berman

Alie....Please don't worry about any of us....we will always be here for you, however long you need! You are setting such a good example for those of us who also need a break! Thank you! Please take good care!

Rich Pasenow

You need healthy lungs to deliver nuggets of knowledge to our hungry brains, so please take all the time you need and I hope you have an excellent pulmonologist!

Emma Giles

You deserve it and are so loved, I'm grateful for you and all those close friends that have your back. Enjoy your vacation, read too many books, and meditate!

Dr. Micro

Alie, Long-time listener, first-time commenter here: I am a microbiology professor and MAJOR science nerd, and I have to tell you how much I love your voice in my ear telling me ALL THE SCIENCE THINGS!!! I learn something new every week. Your show is the best, and I adore you, but you can't dip out of an empty bucket, so please, take a break, take a vacation, heal, and come back refreshed. Sending you blessings and best wishes

John Worster

Please take a break to get yourself healthy.A sick Alie isn't a happy Alie Most people take a vacation, why not you? Take some time, and enjoy yourself. I'm not going anywhere. Relax on the beach and work on that book you've been going to write.

Donoiw

Damnit Dad Ward, if you don't get some rest and feel better....so help me I will turn this Podcast around 😠.__________ Honestly, it's hard to do a podcast without your lungs and if you don't rest they're gonna fall out. I'm legit going to be very disappointed if I hear you at work and not healthy. Yeah, you heard me. Not mad, jusy disappointed. Get well. I don't care how long it takes (most of us are neurodivergent don't really notice the passage of time very well anyway.)

Michele N.

We love your show, but please please please take care of you first! We will all be here when you return. We'll be enjoying listening to your encore episodes and some of our past favorites. Enjoy the beach and journaling! We love you 💕

Kathryn Knopinski

I hope you have a really great vacation and am proud of you for taking this time even when it’s uncomfortable. I would also like to add that it would be entirely reasonable to take 4-8 weeks off from the show *every* year to recharge. There are many more ologies and pacing is important!

Christina Craft

Take a break. Take care of you. We’ll all be here waiting for a healthier Alie xoxo

Forrest Stotts

My dear, my dude, my dad, my dfriend. Take time, rest, recover. We all love you, support you, and want only the best of and for you :) I’m so proud of you for taking this time to heal, it’s so important and SO DIFFICULT to make yourself do!! It’s time to get reacquainted with your self, which is terrifying sometimes, but never regretful. Always have love for you from Portland, and miss Camp Ologies so much!!

Wandering Wyatt

Take care of yourself! Will miss you but have an amazing vacation.

Misses Fishes

Are you kidding us?! Take all the time you need! Was just thinking of you this morning hoping you were super busy healing. This just makes us support you harder than ever! Jeepers...as if...bask in that sun, roll in that sand, swim in that water, and come back strong to tell us more of all your insights! ❣️

Nicole C

Take time heal and relax. We will all be right here when you get back. ♡

ScienceInTheArt

Even when you do what you love, you have to take a break. It’s NORMAL to do so at LEAST ANNUALLY, not every 6 or 14 YEARS, Dad Ward. My suggestion, is to plan around supporting healthy work habits like you are working for yourself, AND start bringing in a protégé to take off some of the demand so you don’t feel pressured to be on 150% of the time. Hell, if Rachel Maddow can swing Monday nights only, you can too. Dial back. Don’t die. Please.

RhondaWantsAllTheDogs

Dad, you have given us a plethora of wonderful material. All we care about is you getting healthy and feeling GOOD!

Queen Jean

Love you, love the show, and support you in taking whatever time you need to be healthy, happy, and grounded. Do it! We'll be here.

ScienceInTheArt

Btw, I’m dozens of episodes behind anyway. Don’t be offended, but I wouldn’t notice if you were gone for a few months. REST. COME BACK BETTER.

Emma Scott

This house will not collapse! We’ll hold down the fort until you return, and we are not going anywhere!!

DreamTree CaliGirl

Agreed! This needs to be part of the radical self-care plan EVERY year!

She Purple

I work in game development, and I always tell my teams that they won’t make fun games if they don’t have fun themselves. Same applies to you! You’ll be amazed at the connections your brain will be able to make when you actually let it rest and have space to do so. Go get healthy!

Cassie Kenton

Ditto what everyone else is saying. We're all sending good vibes your way✨

Peter Jardine

Alie! Hope you get back to the best you super soon. I recently had intensely bad anxiety, got some help, am taking care of myself and I feel better than I have in years, possibly decades. Whatever it is that you need to do, I hope it works out for you and you can find the courage to do the tough stuff and keep going. I love listening to your podcast on my commute and can't wait to see your return!

DreamTree CaliGirl

Talk a break and then take a longer break and then when you think you *should* come back, take a longer break. Seriously. We'll all be here when you come back. Your health is your wealth. None of this matters if you are not healthy. And really, like someone else said, you need to take a REAL break every year. When I started my own business 10 years ago, the FIRST thing on the business plan was my health because I knew without it, nothing else matters. We've got your back.

Tamara Oliver

Thank you for taking care of you, for you!

Brynn Balcom

We love you, we love that you’re taking care of yourself. We will be here when you return! 💕💕💕

Dorrie Coffman

You deserve a break. So at the risk of making it sound like I’m making things about me, I have a point, I promise… When I was pregnant with my son I ended up being admitted to the hospital with severe preeclampsia at 32.5 weeks gestation. My son was happy as a clam and just fine in there. I however was not ok, but I kept insisting on letting him “cook” longer because his vitals were good and I’d be “fine” (I wouldn’t have). It took my husband looking at me dead in the face and saying “he’s ok NOW, but he won’t be ok if you’re not”. That finally penetrated my thinking. He is now a happy healthy 5 year old. So, my point is, the podcast is doing ok. More than ok, it’s doing great, but it won’t be ok if you’re not. Listen to your doctor, our Pod-Mom and everyone who cares about you, take the break and enjoy a real vacation. Relax, recover, reset, and don’t feel guilty for taking care of yourself. We all understand. Your pod-fam loves you and wants you to be ok.

Adam Bruski

Thank you for this great podcast. We'll be here when you're ready. Get better!

Catharine Eastman

THANK YOU for taking care of yourself! You deserve it. <3

Amber McIntyre

Big love, Alie! Rest up and take care of YOU!

Mallory Nettleton

Thank you for taking the time to lead by example, and giving yourself a WELL DESERVED break! Enjoy, take your time, and we'll be right here when you're ready🩷

Allie Paul

Thank you for taking care of yourself. It's not easy to step back and do something for yourself, but it's so important. You deserve to be healthy and happy! We love you so much and we're not going anywhere!

Dorrie Coffman

Side note: Preeclampsia is super weird, my blood pressure dropped immediately to normal once the placenta was out. Like instantly, it was bazaar. I’m really grateful to the anesthesiologist who distracted me with how my vitals changed after my c-section when they were whisking my son off to the NICU. Weird shit that happens to bodies while pregnant might make an interesting (and potentially lifesaving for someone) episode 😄

Dana Jolley Ramirez

Remember: self care isn't selfish! Take care of yourself, rest, relax, and heal. Take as long as you need. We will be here when you get back ❤️

Micah Weir

Take care of yourself!!! Take this as ANOTHER DOCTOR’s order! Relax and heal. ❤️

Margaret Onuska

You know we love you. We'll be here waiting for when you're healed up. Vacations are mandatory at least once a year. We're not going anywhere.

V.E. Griffith

We demand, insist, and require that you care for yourself and your family before making yourself sick with a freakin' podcast. I have a podcast myself, and it's important ... but it's not worth being in the hospital over. We'll be here when you get back.

Kelly Moran

We love you, pops! I still can’t believe the cool lady I loved binge-watching on Unique Sweets as a depressed teen is the same person who lights up my whole brain with the wonders of the universe on a regular basis. Please take twice as much time as you think you need, we aren’t going anywhere!

Mara Schoner

Take a break!!! Oy vey! Now I will have a chance to catch up. Also please try the Dr Tierras Cherry Bark Syrup. I should be getting a cut of profits at this point because everyone who I have recommended it to has it always and forever in stock for lung issues.

Bob Keeney

You gotta take care of yourself *first* before you ever need to worry about us. Rest. Recharge. Get healthy. We'll be here when you get back.

Lydia Trom

Yes! It is brave to treat yourself well. This is great news. Rest, draw, read, whatever. I will re-listen to old ones and continue reading the articles that you have turned me on to! Be well!

RegularGuy

After hearing she had not taken a vacation for 14 years (longer really), I was fully onboard with this vacation and everything she said until near the end... "might mean every six years or so taking a bit of a break to reset." I'm sorry, but that is NOT acceptable! Every six years! Nope! I will not allow that. You need to take a vacation AT LEAST EVERY YEAR. FOR AT LEAST A WEEK! Every six years will NOT cut it!

Kyle

Sending good vibes! 🙌

Rebecca Beneroff

I'm so sorry you're still feeling sick but yes! Take a break! You so so so deserve it <3

Rachel Court

Good on you for taking care of yourself!! Enjoy, relax, reflect and recharge. xxx

Emily Maggert

Yes!!! Take good care of yourself and get much needed rest and recover! You deserve all the good things and beauty the world has to offer you!

Preston

We love you! Feel better!

Lau

Enjoy the break and the vacay! Get better 🌻

Alyssa Elliott

Go take the BEST break ever and then scout yourself a badass pulmonologist who can explain for us all what your little lungies went through….

Rebecca Power

Absolutely take as long as you need Dad! Christ on a bicycle, rest yourself! I hope you have such a good break and heal. But AS LONG AS YOU NEED. If you get to the end of it and realise you still need more time - take it! You've only got one life, and we'll be here when you get back x

choirqueer

THANK YOU for taking a break! Enjoy journaling on the beach and whatever else you end up doing but mostly I hope you do a lot of NOTHING and enjoy THAT. We love you, we're here for you, and if there's anything we your adoring fans can do to support you, please let us know!

Lizzy Martinez

I'll be here when you're ready to come back!! In the meantime, I'll be relistening to my faves as I get ready for work in the morning or while running errands. If curious, faves include Metropolitan Tombology, Cosmology, Somnology, Maritime Archeology, Scotohylology, Oneirology, Gemology, Areology, Cucurbitology, Urology, Dec 2022 Bonus Episode... And a lot more LOL I'm an Ologite all day every day!

Cole Dietrich

So glad you are taking time off to recover! Have the best time and do zero work.

Shannon Naugle

You know we’ll all be here when you return! Take a vacation! Get some rest!

JENN 'Benthopelagic squirrel' ALVAREZ

OMG OMG OMG, DADWARD, 1) you're allowed to take a break, you don't have to qualify the reason. 2. We love you and need you to be mostly in one piece.😝 3. I hope you're able to recharge and heal during this time ❤️ 4. We're not going anywhere #ologite

Bethany Collins

We love you Alie! Feel better, rest up, and have a great vacation!

Hands.to.yourself

I second your friends and Jared!!!! Great time to revisit some favs 😀 we love you Alie, and hope with all our hearts that you feel better! Looking forward to your return, but only when you're ready ❤️

CARLOS L DE LA ROSA

I’m so pleased you are following such good advice and taking care of your health, mental, physical, family, soul, and what have you. It’s needed and you earned it a million times.

Mattea Orr

Of course all we really want is for you to take care of yourself! Take all the rest and time you need to heal and recharge. I just got my husband to start listening--it's only his second podcast he's ever listened to, and he's already a huge fan. We'll spread the word while you rest!

RJ Doidge

Having just gotten back from sitting on a beach, can confirm it is amazing. Sending you hugs and all the love I can DadWard!

Hands.to.yourself

I second this but also you're the only other person in a long time I've seen/heard use "christ on a bicycle"

Andrew Schumacher

Ologies is great, but Alie Ward is more important. Be good to yourself. We’ll wait.

Megan Pursell

You haven’t taken a vacation since 2009!! 🙀. Please take a month or six weeks! 👍 We’ll be there for you when you get back. ❤️❤️ And take a vacation every year, at least 2 weeks! 👍🥰. Get well and take care.

CARLOS L DE LA ROSA

And, this will give me time to catch up and listen to ALL your past shows, which are amazing and lovely. I dream of some day to be one of your guests and share with you and your followers the wonders of my ologies. Heal, love, and know we love you tons.

Lauren Varner

Fully agree! Alie, I really encourage you to take a consistent break every year. Lots of podcasts take a summer break (or around the holidays, or whenever ding dang works for you) and it’s not weird or disappointing at all! We are all subscribed and will just be super stoked when the next episode pops up again when you’re ready. You clearly derive so much joy from your work, but I bet you can use some of that interest and passionate energy to research and plan the adventures you want to have with Jarrett. There must be lots of places you’d like to see and soak up in this fleeting life. Do it without guilt. Stoked for the return of new episodes, but we can totally wait! Anyone who has even a speck of attitude about it can get a life or make their own podcast. Feel better and enjoy taking a break ❤️

Jennifer Hauf

You're such a treasure, Alie! So glad you're prioritizing yourself. Rest is so important. Please get as much of it as you can, Dad <3

Casscadia

We will all be here when you're rested & healthy and ready to come back full strength. Please take all the time you need. We love your show, but want nothing but the best for you. Have a wonderful rest, heal well, & enjoy your vacation.

Jennifer Huseman

So glad you are taking the time off to care for yourself. Enjoy the beach and we will be here when you get back! ❤❤❤🏖🏖🏖

Melissa Kane

Dadward! We ❤️you! No worries, okay? We’ll be here when you return!

Vera Axelrod

We love you Alie! Thank you for setting a good example and taking the time you need. We’ll be here when you get back! If the future of Oologies is a different schedule like 3 months on, 3 months off, we’d still love it! You don’t need to do a new episode every time!

Vita Trincali

We’re not going anywhere! You do what you need to do and if you don’t know what that is then ask dadward or your doctors or your therapist. I’m sure they will have lots of recommendations.

Kevin Wilson

Dadward! You deserve the time off!! Will we miss ya, absolutely! but do we need you to feel better, even more so! We most certainly won't be disappointed with you in the slightest. Enjoy your vacay, and break!! <3

Aileen Lands

You need a break more than every 6 or whatever years! Just finished the Eudemonology episode and according to Laurie you NEED vacations! I’ve been listening for about a year (since my daughter was born and suddenly I had all this time while I was sitting there with a baby attached to my boob) and I’m obsessed. Still catching up on old episodes but honestly there are so many I would listen to again, just to find another tasty morsel of information! Rest, recover and unplug!

Matthew Thompson

I actually like the encore episodes! I just started listening a year or so ago. It's great to have someone hand me old gems. Get well. Go relax.

Ariana Rose

I know this might sound CRAZY, but you could take vacations like... EVERY year... And then you'd be taking even better care of your health, which would lead to creating even better content b/c you are happy and healthy, which will for sure benefit us Ologies lovers who want to keep listening for as long as you keep making... Just sayin'... OK, burbye back atcha! 😘

Anne Bergamesca

Take as long as you need plus more, Alie. I will be here whenever you return, blissfully listening to Sparklebuttology, my nomination for your #1 podcast of all time. Go re-listen, friends!

Sharon

Alie…Be your best self! You’ve been through a lot - take some downtime and recharge! When you’re at your best, your shows will be too. I have a secret for you - you are successful! Your podcast is successful! You have touched a lot of lives! Taking a few weeks off won’t make that go away. We will be here, cheering you on and waiting for some good stories when you return. Go have fun!

Sarah Chaney

You go do that vacation girl and don’t you dare record a podcast about it! Don’t! We can wait, take as much time as you need!

Daniel J McDonald

We're not going anywhere. Take care of yourself.

Merryn Lush

Dad! You should not feel even a little bit bad about taking a break. As a relatively fresh baby listener I can say that encores are great because they save me from deep scrolling through the catalogue of episodes to find ones I haven’t heard yet and they’re always solid ones. And it’s always cute when they’re older ones and you hear what the show was like in the beginning - Love them! Take care of yourself, Ologites will never leave you and are always rooting for you and your health. Have fun and get some peace and rest. Thank you for bringing this podcast to life and building this community

Jessica Rudd

Heck yeah, you need to take care of yourself!! Hope you feel better soon and enjoy the vacation. And please take vacations more often than every six years, seriously. Having time to rest and recharge is a necessity. PS - I love the encores and revisiting old episodes in general. There are a few (like quantum ontology, cosmology, SQUIDS, wasps, etc.) that I have listened to at least ten times each because they are just that good, funny, and informative.

Nathan Ramin

Hey Alie - take care of yourself - you deserve it. I’m a middle school teacher and let me just say - you’re a middle school teacher for the world. It’s a tough and joyful gig. You’ve helped so many of us through hard times. You deserve to help yourself through a hard time. Hit that beach!

Emily Yoshida

Don’t you worry about a thing, Dadward. The ologites will always have your back and yes we’re thrilled you are taking some time to take care of yourself. Next step: convincing you once every six years or so is not enough haha. Have fun and feel better!

Susan

Take as long as you need. We'll be here when you get back.

Raphael Santore

You are an amazing individual. Please take the time your need for yourself and your family. We are not going anywhere.

Polly Robarts

Enjoy your break, Alie. All of us exhaust-os just watched that and thought…oh, maybe I can take a rest too. Also, the encores are always a fun way to sample the back catalogue. Such a sweet extra touch to have former guests intro them.

Robin Kuehn

Yes, take a vacation! And while on vacation, pencil in your next break in *6 months*, and another vacation next year too. We want you and Ologies around for a long time, and for that to happen you have to be good to yourself now.

Erin R.

Everyone needs a break (sometimes, a breakdown) to keep our physical and mental health intact. I hope you get better soon and have a nice relaxing vacation so you can come back stronger 💪. P.S. Ologies is my favorite podcast. Whether it's a fresh episode or an encore, I still look forward to listening.

Robin Kuehn

What's more, the time of year when you lose someone so important to you is likely to be a time of stress and sadness going forward, so maybe plan a break at that time every year?

Mark Rovner

FUCKING TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF - EVERYONE WILL BE HERE WHEN U GET BACK.

NiceWarmBooks

Take all the time you need. We will be here and I am stoked about the add-ons to the encores. Rest and relax as hard as you work! That’s your job now.

Mark Rovner

P.s, love the shit out of you.

Ceri Tully

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu. Be gentle with yourself. You deserve it.

Rachel Marino

DadWard, if I may direct you back to 3:26 of your own video "you deserve it, you deserve it, you. deserve. it." We will always be here whenever you are ready and healthy! We love you okpurbye

Judy

We love you! Go take care of you. We’ll all be here when you get back. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Alice Rubin

We need Dadward to be healthy! All the other podcasters take breaks, so you get on too. Enjoy your vacay! We'll all be here when you get back, ok?So you just take care of yourself and DO NOT WORRY about this.

Amy Vigallon

Señora DadWard! Im not good at the mushy stuff so here’s some heartfelt tough love. Think of it this way, if you dont make time for your wellness you will be forced to make time for your illness. Like you always say, “cut the bangs, text your crush”, your body is saying rest up and take the vacation 😘

Michelle Fullner

So happy and relieved to hear you’re taking a break. We’re all rooting for you and aren’t going anywhere. Please take breaks so much more often than every six years. Every six months maybe?

Kep

enjoy the time off! its so important to have some time just to chill.

BigHighFive

Thank you for the explanation! Even though it wasn’t necessary. You get to be human too! Enjoy your time!

JOLIN BLOOM

We will be here when you’re well again! We’d rather have you take a vacation than for you to stay sick and have to quit the show all together. 💕

ariel.vanzandt

Don't worry dad. We aren't going anywhere <3

Alphabet

Self care! Love it!! We are patient and will happily enjoy revisiting older content while you rest. ❤️

wendy Forman

Your vacation/recovery time is not only well- deserved but absolutely necessary.

Love2Learn46

You have been such an inspiration to me, and this just reinforces it! You deserve this- we are all sending you healing love and will be here when you return, better than ever!!

Nikademus Cuellar

I'm relieved that you're taking the time you need. I hope so much that you find yourself healthy and replenished by the end of this time off.

Kathryn

Take all of the time you need! We love you Internet Dad and will never begrudge you personal healing time. Take care of yourself❤️❤️

Juliana

Rest is SO important and so hard for those of us who haven’t practiced it much. Take good care of yourself- you deserve it (we all do!) and we’ll be here when you’re ready.

Jenna Breiner

Good for you for taking the time you need! We will be here for you when you are ready. Love you dadward. Many hugs from your many internet children

Rae Press

Deep, restorative rest is so important! Disability justice and pride keeps showing me the path to slow down and do what's manageable. And to rest. I hope you are feeling much more the way you want to be after that and a proper vacation! Take good care! 💛🍓

Tom Whittaker

You've given us so much over the years...time for us to give back -- with warm, loving thoughts, Good Vibrations, and (virtual) hugs! Relax, refresh, and laugh!

Anna Doo

You Alie, DadWard, are an inspiration and a beautiful soul. The beach is amazingly capable of nourishing what ails you. Take your time…we’ll all be here adding more DadWard kiddos!

Carole Gjertson

You have listener support, we love your show and want you healthy enough to continue. Yes! Take care of yourself!

Kendall M

Alie if the roles were reversed you would want us to take the vacation, so enjoy it, heal up, and we’ll see you back here when you’re ready! ❤️

Linda Mortenson

Alie! Stop talking about how you need to take a break from talking! We love you and want you healthy and energized! 💜💜💜

Mari Strombom Johnson

We want you to take a break and take care of yourself - we'll all be here when you're healthy and come back - we promise!

Jason Lowenthal

I ain't afraid of no reruns! There are so many I haven't heard! Go rest your weary soul and we'll be here when you get back!!!

Kat Sherrell

We’ll be here when you get back! You take good care of you first💛

Steve Mose

Take care! We’ll be here

Devon Naples

THANK YOU Alie for taking a break. You’re doing this for yourself, and you more than need and deserve it, but it’s what we want too. So thank you for taking care of you, someone we all care about so much. Let the Oligites hold down the fort for a while. We’ll keep this magical flora alive. We love you!!!! 🩵

Mia Batol

Enjoy your vacation. Take care of yourself. Your dream podcast can wait and it will benefit from the new refreshed you. Hugs.

Alicia B

Oh, we love you so much! 💖💖💖 Pls take breaks more than once every six years lol. We'll be here.

KJ Watson

I've only discovered you, and am listening from the beginning - I'm still in 2019! Please look after yourself and heal (and let me catch up!)

Cori

Alie some of the podcasts I subscribe to post an encore every other week. Take a break EVERY year love 💜

Madeleine Ash

We deserve it?! YOU deserve it!! Take care of yourself Dadward, we aren’t going anywhere 💚

Michael Duncan

6 years between vacations is not good. Your health deserves more. We all understand. More vacations = better and stronger Alie. We will go no where. We will alway be here when you come back. Personally, your podcast has let out my hibernating science geekiness and allowed me to bombard my grown children with science trivia at the most embarrassing times. Thank you!! Be well

Phylicia Chandler

I’m so glad you have family, friends and doctors looking after you! And thank you for listening to them. We know how hard you work for this podcast - it shows in every episode! We love you Alie and want you healthy! Go relax and reset! Your ologies fam will be here waiting with out a doubt!

Ash Micklewright

You gorgeously incredible human-- take a break at soak it ALL up! <3 Team more vacations and breaks for Dadward!!!!

Pacheecha

You're the dad i always wanted! May you be well and heal and rest so you can recover that vivacious and curious human you are. 💖💖💖

Karen Yip

Take care of you, all of you. When both breathing and thinking come with ease then it's time to come back. We started this year listening from the beginning and are only at summer 2019 episodes - trying to catch up!

Mushroom Screams

Rest up Alie! You’ve made my heart so full with this podcast and the world is a brighter place because of you. When you come back, maybe you could consider adding another podcast host to the show so the full burden isn’t on you or taking set breaks to run encores? Wishing you nothing but sunshine, the yummiest of foods, and all the relaxation your heart desires!

Miren Carredano

we love you dadward! take care and get some well deserved rest!

1000thHappyHaunt

Relax. Reset. Repeat as often as necessary! We'll be here when you get back. <3

E.G. Gidner

Alie - you are a national, no, a world treasure. Truly. You have done so much good for science, and community, and comedy, and life. Please take all the time you need. Rest. Relax. Heal. Sleep. When you no longer have to rest and you longer want to rest, take another week or so. We will be here when you get back.

Denise and Scott Ologiephiles

Take a break!!! We want that for you. So glad that my husband found ologies this year. (I am a newbie and pretty much everyone I know and now my college students next week are all being introduced to you, too.) You can not disappoint us. I hope you enjoy your time off. Take care of you!!! And, pencil in an annual break! We will be here when you get back. xoxo

Kyla

Yes, rest and reset! Better to not have you for weeks (or months, or until 2024...take as long as you need!) but get to enjoy your talent for many years to come than to have you now but for not much longer.

Liz Stanton

Listen here, friend, I’ve been with you since Volcanology #1 and you have been an utter inspiration. I got a ding dang masters degree in rocks, in no small part because of this podcast. And y’know what? In your honor, tomorrow I’m going to wake up before the dawn and go gawk at some billion year old rocks as the sun rises. I might even huff some lichen or boop a lizard snoot. Please take care of yourself…because you have definitely taken care of me over the years.

Courtney Peterson

We love you Alie! Enjoy your much deserved vacation and break. We’ll be here when you get back! ♥️♥️♥️

Patricia Brewster

What? You’re not gone yet? Get the heck outta here and we’ll be here when you get back and are ready. No worries, enjoy❤️. BTW taking 2 weeks a year is nothing. You should really start think about doing that. From one type A to another.

Karen Seidler

Take care, we will anxiously be waiting for you to return!

James Nance

We love you, Alie! Stress + rest = growth. Sending you good vibes as you recover! Enjoy the vacation!

Esohn

Please rest and enjoy it! You deserve every single second of it. Come back only when you feel ready, we will be here when you return!

Alyssa Benson

Darling Alie, take time to rest and take a vacation every year!! You need it, we'll always be here when you get back and we will only be that much happier when you return healed and rested and full of vim and vigor. I know it's a bigger production, but My Favorite Murder take like, a month off every year now and they're still one of my favorites, so I promise I won't be mad that you need a break 😁 Also as someone with both chronic health conditions and mental health issues believe me when I say it's better to take the time to care for yourself than to come to a complete breaking point. Take care and we'll see you soon! 💜💜💜

Holly Snyder

So happy for you 🙂 A personal, life altering suggestion: buy the book Siddhartha, sit under your favorite tree, right at the base, and read it. Or listen to the audiobook, which I did. Then sit quietly and just breath and think under your tree, letting all your thoughts pass by like jellyfish. Which is my favorite all time ologies episode and now I have a jellyfish tattoo and they represent meditation, peace and prosperity in my mind. Ok love you bye ♥️

Charlie

This blows my mind, in the UK you get a MANDATORY 28 days holiday a year... dadward get your backside on a yearly holiday plan please!

Lindsay Howells

Alie! I am so grateful for you and all I learn from your podcast, and not just about science. You have a beautiful way of demonstrating how to show up as a whole person, to be vulnerable and learn out loud. You show us it’s okay ask questions and to not always have the answers. You show us the value of lived experience as much as learned knowledge. You demonstrate and empower us to know we can evolve in each moment to be a better version of ourselves than we were yesterday. Your authenticity is what makes the podcast so amazing. So thank you for continuing to show us how it’s done, by taking the time you need. Put on lipstick, text your crush, feel the sand between your toes, take a vacation! You do you! We love you.

Piper Warnick

Alie! I'm so glad you're going to take care of yourself! Rest and recharge so you can come back to the things you love. Having a patreon means you can do this, we're here supporting you! Much love from your podkid!

Miranda Rose

You're setting a really good example by taking a break! Your show helped me realize how important sleep and rest are! Hope you get well soon! <3

Rick Gillespie

Please take the time to rest, recover, and recuperate. We'll still be here when you're ready!

Richard

We love you Alie! Take all the time you need, until you forget ALL your passwords!

Taylor Kendall

I recommend reading at least one very trash book on the beach! Have fun, feel better!

Melissa Berger

Feel better, take as much time to heal as you need!! A couple months after my dad passed, I took a vacation for two weeks on a different continent where my phone didn’t work. Not travel, not sightseeing, not work…just rest. I stayed at my friend’s farm and sat on their porch watching the rain and their animals for a week and let myself be taken care of, and then spent another week alone in a new city just sitting on the beach and eating and reading at the hotel restaurant and occasionally paddleboarding (ignoring all the exciting things to do and see in the area). It was so different from any “vacation” I’d had before, and don’t know what would have happened to my mental health without that trip, and I am so hoping your break is just as restful. We’ll be here when you get back. Your work is meaningful and we want you to keep doing it for a long time, and sustainability means balance- and anyway, breaks are an excellent excuse to catch up on missed episodes and to listen to others again!

Gwen Kelly

Been scrolling through the comments (in any other situation a terrible idea) but it brings me joy. We all want the best for you, to rest, recover, find that center again, and really just recharge. I know you’re our Pod Dad, but these folks on here sound like a bunch of pod moms and dads lovingly telling their pod kid to take a break, gosh dernit! You deserve it, and if you find it hard to do it for yourself, then do it for us. You taking care of yourself is such an amazing gift that gives us pod kids and pod grandkids that permission, that role model that says it’s ok, even necessary to take a break, (or multiple breaks🫢)! Do it for the pod kids! Maybe come back and do an episode on the science of relaxing, chilling, and taking a break (only after you get fully rested and become an expert yourself)! p.s. If you need science to convince you to take a break, there’s a ton of research on how stress, especially chronic stress, reduces your immune system’s ability to respond to infection. For example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-022-01276-1 TLDR; stress is bad, especially chronic stress, anxiety, etc. No bueno! So don’t read that article now, go relax, rest, recover!

sarah de jesus

WE LOVE YOU!!!! Enjoy your time off!!! you so deserve it!!!💗🍄🌞🌻🕷️🦕🦋

Michael Neumann

Love you pod dad! You're not letting us down by being human! Honestly, I don't think any of us would be mad if you took a few weeks off every summer, you have like 12 jobs. Take care and don't worry about your pod kids!

Leah Anderson

Qué te recuperes pronto, Papi Pod. 💙

Rustice

We will still be here when you get back! Take care and enjoy your vacation. Plus...I still have like 300 episodes to get through 😁.

Athena Sferas

Girl you said 2009 and I,,, Have the loveliest vacation ever and I’m sure every single one of us was super happy to hear about the loving support group that you have to tell you when it’s time to take care of you. We look forward to when you’re well again!!!

Lee Wang

The pod doesn't exist without you, Alie, so while it takes a pause, it (and you!) will come back healthier. Also, as a relative newcomer to the show, it gives me a little bit of an opportunity to try to finish the backlog of old shows!

Natalie J

2009?! Go get your adorable little butt on a beach and relax!! We love you and we will be here when you’re healthy and well. Take the time you need to heal both physically and mentally. We love you and the show and we will be here when you’re recovered 💗

Cassidy Mayo

Love how you close your eyes when you truly mean something to your core. Please please please take care of you! We ❤️ you. :)

Anna

Enjoy your vacation! Please promise that you won’t do anything ”productive”. Just relax, reset, get healthy and we’ll be here when you get back. ❤️

Alexandre Catulle

Enjoy your break! We'll be there when you are ready to come back 🩵

Brooklyn Baron

We love you so much and we’ll be right here when you’re feeling ready to come back! So proud of you for taking care of yourself!! 💜

Aaron Jozsef

Alie. This is amazing, because it's my first time (enter no connotation). However... it is my first identification :) Tonight, I spent my evening watching episode 10 of Star Trek Strange New World with a glass of Cab and damn... We all need to find curiosity, endearment and vigor with our studies. Time is the commodity. The art, belief and spirit is to never wasted.

Aaron Jozsef

Another day and another time, maritime salvage is an amazing story :)

Angela Hoffman

Take care of you, and we will all be here when you come back, whenever that may be. <3

Kathy Clark

"No one can take care of you better than you." I'm glad that you're taking some time for yourself. I think we'd all rather that you take a break, heal and refresh yourself and be able to come back, vs you not being healthy enough to continue doing the things you want to do. We are so grateful that you give so much of yourself to the show we all love and have learned so much from. Rest and recover!

Rachel

Alie, please do this every year!! Annual vacation is a normal part of every job that isn't exploitative - it's nothing you need to apologize for! The podcast can take a month's break or more every year (not even encore episodes!) and we will all survive and only be more delighted to listen when you return. You deserve rest as much as anyone and you'll be setting a great example to your podkids by taking it!

Amy Charlebois

So happy to hear this Alie. Rest and heal. Much love.

Teresa Gleason

I’m so happy you are doing what’s right for your health. As a parent that’s the most difficult thing to do. Rest, heal and refill your being.

Clayton Cromley

You say "hut with rats" like it's a bad thing. Nevertheless may you take as long as you wish to reset, and feel better! Look forward to trying to catch up with your published backlog.

Trisha C

I'm so proud of you for taking a break and prioritizing your health. 💜

Iben Christiane Hansen

Take a break, reset and feel better - take longer than you think you need, and we’ll be here whenever you’re feeling up to it again. ❤️

Jessi

I’m so glad you’re taking a break! I hope you feel much better. We’d support you to take more breaks too!

Keely Chavez

The most valuable things, love, health, and time. You are loved and appreciated, we all want you to be healthy in body & mind, so take time. I bet most of us could listen to the entire series thus far again. Yup. Ya did that good Ward. Atta girl.

Scott Hanley

Oh Dadward , you awesome person, please trust that your mojo is strong and your podcast/show is very important to the world. Encore episodes should be well accepted. Even under normal healthy conditions. But in the light of real recovery warranted, it’s understood that we need you in top form in order to produce such high quality content. Rest, recuperate, and come back stronger. ❤️

James Bamber

Alie, I'm so happy you're taking this time to rest and recuperate - and try not to start too many extra projects while you're doing it! Take a month, take a year, the ologites will still be here when you're ready to come back.

Renee Quekel

Dear dad, please take as long as you need! You deserve it! And try not to feel guilty because it’s normal to need a break and to even take a break before you need it or feel like you deserve it! I live in the Netherlands and we get 5 weeks off per year which is even not enough, but everyone takes those 5 weeks! Other podcasts also work in seasons and take breaks in between. We will be here waiting for you! ❤️

Amanda Canning

Rest well, Dadward! We'll all be here when you get back. 💚

Emily

Thank you for taking care of you. This is totally a put your oxygen mask on first situation. We’ll be here when you’re feeling up to coming back

Helena

Seeing you take care of yourself is the opposite of disappointing! I wish you a really restorative break and the bestest vacation! 🧡

Kris

Take as long a break as your body needs! We will be here 🩷

Jaime McNear

Proud of you for doing this, you're setting a great example for your podchildren.

Ellie Snowden

You’re right we ain’t going anywhere. Rest up well Dadward ✨

Lindsay Thomas

Please take as long as you need! We will all be here when you get back. Feel better soon 🩷

Susan G

As much time as you need. Rest, recover. You are the reason we are here, and we want you to do whatever you need to look after yourself. We aren't going anywhere. <3

Claire Nurc

Yes take a break! Most of Europe is on holiday so you're totally on trend (feel better soon and enjoy doing nothing for a while, we all need that from time to time)

Noel Wharton

Yay! Yea, please take a break for self care and healing! I hope you have a lovely time

Maria Armero

We love you, Alie! Rest is necessary. I'm taking 10 days off, my first proper holiday in over a year! So, I approve of pod-dad getting away from is kids for a while. Take care of yourself. We'll be here when you're back.

Rob S

Hi Alie. Ologies was the first podcast that I ever listened to, way back in the year that you started making it. It was my favorite podcast then, and it's still my favorite podcast now. (You have helped me do SO MUCH housework over the years. I've enjoyed every. single. episode.) Though I will miss you, I hope you take all the time you need to relax, refresh, rest, heal, relax, escape, de-stress, relax, take a much-needed break, and most importantly: r e l a x. We'll still be here for you when you get back. Enjoy your time. You've earned it.

Melvyn Kuan

Make sure your life and career is sustainable! Sometimes it's a trap to get onto a never ending treadmill. Your imagination and creativity hopefully will be restored by your break!

Wynter

Take as long as you need (not as long as you *want*, as long as you actually *need*) to feel better ! We love you and we'll still be there when you get back, no matter when that happens 💗 Plus this break will leave me enough time to listen through the back catalog without feeling frustrates when new episodes come out, so it's perfect !! Bon courage et bonnes vacances ✨✨✨

Unity

Settledown you crazy!! “If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.” Please. We need you. And wait a minute…just realized you needed a ‘vacation intervention’ 🤭🫶

Catherine Kenny

Enjoy your well deserved break! Hope it rejuvenates you. Looking forward to all the Ologies in the future

Wendy Shaul

You go girl! Go SIT, DAYDREAM, SNOOZE… we’re not going anywhere! And phew… time to catch up on episodes from before I discovered you and my first and favorite, podcast.

Amelie Lu

Take all the time you need, even if that's longer than you planned or expected. We'll still be here when you get back. Taking care of yourself is so important! Listen to your body and get well <3

Silvia Triverio

There is no way in the world that you can disappoint us by taking care of yourself and going on vacation! You are exceptional and you deserve to unplug 🤗

Carolyn Rush

And this time you can stay in a hut WITHOUT rats 😁

Mandy Hobson

First of all - WE LOVE YOU. Second of all - YOU DESERVE SELF CARE. Do whatever you need to do to heal and be happy. Your health and happiness matters. I guarantee we will all be here waiting patiently whenever you are ready to get back at it. You are one of the most amazing women I’ve ever encountered (even if it is just through my podcast app). Thank you for all the important work you do for science and the world. You are an icon. Be well, be at peace, be joyful and take care. 🤗

Melanie Abbott

Take the break! ENJOY the break!! We would all rather you get well and take a well earned break than work yourself into bad health. Gives us plenty of time to back and listen to some old favourites.

Cassafrass

Alie, we are so proud of you for doing this!! We know self care and self compassion are a challenge for you (thanks for your vulnerability). This is a huge step in the right direction! I can’t wait to see you taking vacations a few times every year! We’ll be here when you come back every time. Proud of you! Go get ‘em, tiger!

Ploy Keener

Feel better, Alie! Please take as much time as you need to take care of yourself and feel better!

Judy Lawler

The only way your listeners would be disappointed is if you continued on and let your health deteriorate. Please take all the time you need to reset and get well! We’ll be here waiting patiently!

Louis

Thank you so much for taking a break! Please take as long as you need and double it (because we all know you will want to underestimate how much time you need)! I like my favorite creators happy and healthy and it is a personal relief as well, since I finally get a chance to catch up with my episode backlog!

Erin Burbidge

So excited for you to take a real break. We love you, and we will be waiting for the healthy, happy, chill AF Ally that will re-join us when she's ready! In the meantime, there's so many ologies in the back catalogue for me to savour :)

Darlene Skapura

Oh dadward, take care of yourself so that WE have the privilege of getting to have you! Ya got to put your oxygen mask on first so you can help others. Have a good time off, try to shut off the brain and just enjoy. If you want a really good read, james nesters book Breath is a good read and a remind about our health and well being.

David Byrd

Definitely take a break! I don't even know what you're worried about--of course we understand! I look forward to your return and the news that you are fully recovered and feeling even better than normal. But I can wait as as long as it takes for that to happen. Plenty of shows to re-listen to in the meantime. (To be honest, I am currently behind anyway--now maybe I can catch up. :-) ) Take care of yourself, Alie!

Heartspace Midwifery

We workaholics need more models for taking care of ourselves. You are doing us all a favor. And your body has been screaming at you to do this. Thanks for listening so you can continue your beautiful life that feeds so many souls.

Heaven Leigh Purdue

Stop it right now Alie, you take care of yourself and you take as much time as you need!

Qeets

We love you Dad!! Be so so good to yourself, the world would be yours were it in our power to give; this community isn’t “allowing” you to go frolic on a beach and journal and sleep, we’re actively and enthusiastically encourage it. The joy and healing you’ve brought so many of us by letting us appreciate the fruits of you do doing your dream job… gratitude beyond measure. Honestly. Let everyone around you take the very best care of you. We’ll miss you but we will be celebrating your restful recovery 💛💛

Michael Hollis

Love you. Let it all go, and just be in the moment while you’re away. Get rest, and get well.

Maren Prophit

So thrilled to hear you are taking the rest that your body is asking for, and that you have such an amazing community around you helping you do that! Sending all the good, restful, peaceful, healing vibes and am so so happy for you! We will miss you but it is so worth it to give this time to yourself! ❤️

Michael Leenellett

Take more time than you think that you need to rest! Relax and recharge!

Lorax 🌳

You’ve given us enough content that you could take several months off, dad. ♥️ So glad you are taking care of yourself!!

Dorit

Yes!! Take a break! Take more than one break!! We will hold this fort right here.

Megan Morgan

Take the time you need to be healthy, you need to take care of yourself!! You have worked so hard to provide us with such an amazing podcast!

erina1967

We want you back, living your dream and will miss you. But take the time to live and breathe and relax. Please do. Peace, and all good wishes!

Ninja Squirrel

Please take care of yourself! We'll be here when you get back.

Jennifer Horst

Thank you for taking care of yourself! We will enjoy the encores while you recoup and will be excited to hear how well you’re doing when you’re back. Enjoy your time off!!!

Peta Luck

Can you please make it a month? Burnout is real....and we can catch up on the back catalogue 😍

JLilz

💙💙💙

Courtney Jones

Take as long as you need. Take more consistent breaks throughout the year. We more than understand. We love you <3

Spencer Parks

I don't need to say but obviously, yes, you deserve this. GOOO DOOOO IIIIIITTTT! Treat yoself!

taylor

Take good care of yourself!!! Rest cannot be under-utilized and we hope you feel better soon. If not, take all the time you need 💜

LZ

Take ALL the time you need, then take an extra week. We don’t need updates. You need you and that’s all that matters ❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕

Snakes_N_Bakes

Take care of yourself first. We all understand and want YOU to be better

Cat Poland

You are loved! Your health is more important. Take all the time you need to heal. <3

Jessalyn Pennington

You would tell all of us to rest and heal dadward!!! I just left my job of 7+ years even tho I loved it because it was becoming so bad for my mental and physical health and part of me realizing I needed to leave was your amazing advice and insight 💜💜 Sending you light and cool vibes from vermont, rest, heal and then enjoy a real vacation! 😸

Rachel

You saw us through a pandemic, introduced your audience to amazing humans, and spoke genuinely about your life Thank you ! Be well!

Rachel

Agreed

Catherine Wood

Take all the time you need!!! We'll be wishing you a relaxing rest and recovery!

Katrina Thietje-Weihs

Please take vacations/breaks more frequently than every 6 years. Your life is a journey and an adventure. You've been thru a lot. I wish you a gentle and thorough recovery.

Sean Lyons

Internet Father you can do no wrong, sit on that beach and inevitably watch Jarrett put his whole ass into some wacky new exercise he just learned about

Elisabeth L. Daley

Look, you are a bad employer. Bad employers are BAD!!! Your employee needs and deserves REGULAR, LENGTHY, periods of time off when they are not answering calls or emails, turning all travel into an interview opportunity, or even THINKING about work. In addition, as an employer, your employee should be entitled to sick time off, and that should take as long as is required to heal physically and mentally. Workers and their allies have fought and died to be treated better by their employers, and YOU as an employer, are disrespecting that heritage shamefully. Don't be the bad employer. In your May podcast covering the WGA picket, WGA writers talked about money issues, but they also talked about insurance and other benefits. Vacation and sick time off ARE some of these benefits. Pension is another (ahem, are you providing your employee a generous retirement package?). I didn't read all of the 700+ comments that came before this, but perhaps I am providing a different angle on the issue and I hope you will wrap your head around how badly you are behaving AS AN EMPLOYER and get your shit together and stop reading comments and go rest! And when you come back, I would love to hear an episode on labor-ology or union-ology or the collective action of workers. Most people are sorely in need of learning more about this topic. But forget that for now. Just remember its Bread AND Roses, right? So go smell some roses.

Mark Guzewski

You have more energy and stamina than anyone I know. But we all reach a limit and need to decompress from time to time. Wishing you a speedy and relaxing recovery. Get some rest, girl!

Suzen Baxter

I love encore episodes. I can’t absorb all the info the first time and it can be hard to pick which ones to relisten to next. Encores are you making that suggestion for me. :)

Gaelle Gralnek

GO! Rest, heal, reset, relax, enjoy and take care of yourself (and our PodMom) -- you need and deserve it, and we'll be here when you get back!

Kelsy Simpson

Hi Dad Ward! I'm a person whose whole personality has been my job and I have been notoriously bad about taking time off. *Guilty of working from home while having Covid* but the more that I listen to Ologies, the more I realize how many interests that I have outside of work. I would like to extend my gratitude because without Ologies, I wouldn't have taken a day off of work to see the bug exhibit at the Natural History museum, I would have been to nervous to snorkel for the first time (curiosity got the best of me), I wouldn't have gone to the Botanical gardens on my trip, etc. Really, thank you for helping to ignite my passion in life again. I hope you heal quickly and relax soon. You've taught me that I've needed it and I hope you know that you REALLY need it too. ❤️

Jeri Webb

Aw poodle!! We are all here for you, please take care of yourself. Rest, vacation, listen to some soothing music, watch the waves. You can do it. Sending so much love to our favorite podcaster in the history of the universe.

Margaret Downs

My thoughts exactly! I've listened to most of the back catalog but I still listen to the encores and by the end I'm always thinking "damn, I forgot what a banger this one was."

Sue MyShak

Yesssss!!!! Take a break! This podcast has been life changing for so many people you deserve all the time in the world Alie! More vacations, less burnout and we’ll be cheering you on the whole time!

Margaret Downs

Adding to the chorus of voices in support of taking a break! I've also used the language of "modeling a healthy work/life balance for people who look up to me" because sometimes I can't do it for myself but I can do it for someone else :p I DID have a little sob in my car yesterday at your suggestion to take this as a sign; it's been a really bonkers year and a half for me, both professionally and personally and I've been doing some re-structuring and re-prioritizing so it really hit home. I'm within a year or so of finishing my PhD and so the temptation to just live and breathe work is DEFINITELY there, but I've had some really frank conversations about the need to prioritize and I've definitely gotten better at setting boundaries around what I can and can't do. Anyway, take all the time you need, we'll hold down the fort.

Michael Diamond

Please be kind to yourself. You would want that for others.

Jennifer Lemon

EVERYone deserves a vacation EVERY year. And that's for healthy people. Take recovery time. Take vacation time. We love you and want you to be physically well and mentally well.

katie castañeda

we love you poddad and we will love the show endlessly no matter what. one thing this show has taught me is the importance of taking care of yourself and you are leading by example!!!!!! please heal, rest, and rejuvenate all you need. we love you and are so glad you are here and this community is here. <3

Casey Weaver

Ologies has gotten me through some of my hardest moments, and it's only possible to offer that to others when you are doing that for yourself. I'm so grateful for your being beyond simply what you produce, and I'm always down for a re-listen :) take good care <3

Maddie Meehan

Take a break, take care of yourself, reset, and come back healthier! No need to feel guilty about not releasing new episodes. Have an incredible vacation, and please please focus on healing --- pneumonia is no joke!! Much love PodDad!!

Haley K.

Sending healing thoughts! We will all patiently be here for you when you’re rested and healed and returned- this empire won’t fall that easily!! Enjoy your rest and then you can get back to asking prodding questions about lizard dicks and bee dances and how the fuck magnets work. <3

Rebecca Learnard

The Ologites will be here for when you come back! Take care of yourself and hope you find this time restful for your mind, body, and soul. Proud of you for taking the time to care for yourself!

Paulina Krasińska-Sroka

Let's make it an annual thing and designate August the Encore Month! 🗓️ Or August and September, so you'd get time to properly rest, go on vacation and decompress after coming back 🏖️ EMAS - Encore Months August September. Coincidentally, when I asked Google Translate if "emas" means something, it suggested Uzbek language in which it means "it's not". And I find it perfectly fitting for a name of months filled not with new episodes, but delicious encores 🩷

TheyAday

That’s a good partner and those are some good friends. Nice work listening to your body and those who care for you. I know it’s hard but we all love you and love ologies and want the best for you and everyone! And if you’re not your best, the rest won’t be either, we love you, we will be here. Rest. 🩷

Caitlin Fitz Gerald

Good! Do this. We will be here when you get back. I have had pneumonia four times, have been hospitalized with it twice. One of those times I was fully out of commission for over a month and was not 100% for close to six months. The only way to really get better is to REST. It's slow, but if you take the time, sleep as much as you need to, and REST, you will get there.

Isabelle Newman

Self care is never selfish!! So proud of you for listening to the people who love you and your body. You deserve a million vacation days and more. Take care of yourself and rest!

TolkienFan4Ever

Take all the time you need! Your health is important and vital. Get yourself well!

Rhiannon Williams

I love to see people taking care of themselves and resting when needed. Take your time, Dad. We'll be here when you're ready.

Roberta Hancock & Byron Sampson

So proud of you for listening to your family, friends and healthcare providers! Healing requires love and mindfulness - for yourself and from others. You have that in spades from all your pod kids, so drink deeply of that supportive energy and we’ll see you when you’re ready to rejoin us! 💛🌻

Leah Rose

Sending lots of love <3

Feye

Take all the time you need, heal before you start again.. We'll be waiting here for when you're healthy and properly rested. 🩷

Brittney Corrigan

Take care of yourself, Alie! You deserve this break and opportunity to have a real vacation. We will all be here when you get back, and I wish you a healing, restful, and joyful time away!

Attacusatlas

Just joining the chorus to say take care of yourself and rest up for as long as you need! Don’t check your email or anything else while you’re on the beach! Just enjoy the peace. Sending health and true relaxation your way. ❤️

Tom Boodry

Please take care of yourself and take all of the time you need. Hope this time allows you to rest and restore your body and mind. We’ll be here whenever you are ready

Camille L

Please!! Take care of yourself, this is too important. You are so deserving. We love you!! 💗

Sara Wells

We support you!! Take whatever time you need. And when you get back, consider taking more regular intermittent breaks to recharge – like multiple vacations or staycations every year. No need to stress about us. Your pod community will support you. The daily or weekly podcasts I listen to have guest hosts when the main host is on vacation. Happens all the time, so you could also consider that. But I personally don't mind waiting a little longer for the next episode if you're out. In fact, I don't really even notice how often they come out. I imagine most of us are similar. So stop worrying and take care of yourself. Much love.

Sarah Meaden

Oh Dadward, you're such an inspiration. Now you're setting goldarn good examples by taking care of yourself. I hope you get lots of snacks and rest and sunshine and good air.

Cat_Mattress

Please take what time you need, both now and ongoing in the future (and 'need' here meaning 'not getting to the point of burnout and intervention)!! Enjoy your beach, may it be calming and healing, and we will be supporting you the entire way!

Laurie Magnuson

Please rest and take care of YOU and we will be here whenever you are ready to come back, don't worry!!

Pluffy

It makes me happy that you are taking care of yourself. Take all the time that you need, and not all the time that you think you need. :p

Jean Brubeck

I'm going to join the chorus here to say, nothing is more important than your health. Take all of the time you need, rest and recover. Be well

Mary Carol Edwards

Echoing all the others to encourage you to take guilt-free time off. It’s important to give yourself more time to heal than you probably expect! Enjoy every day of it.

Sonjabird

Alie, we love you and want you to take care of yourself! Please allow yourself the time to heal and refresh. The only way you could disappoint us is by not taking care of you! You are always encouraging us practice self care and compassion- you should do the same. Enjoy your break and we will see you soon! Lotsa love.

Potato Puffer

We love you! Take care of yourself and get well! We will always be here supporting you and our favorite show when you get back! I am looking forward to the encore episodes. ♥️

Olivier Calas

Take a break Alie! No job is worth your health. Without it there is nothing! Chill and come back in tip top shape.

Sara E.

Take care of you first! Also, you deserve a break, so go and savor naps, sleeping in, and seeing a new place you’ve always wanted to visit. We will be here when you’re feeling 100% again.

Cassie Chatwin

Don't worry about us! We will be here when you return hopefully in tip top shape! Take care and enjoy

Roxanna McLaughlin

Aw, be well, Allie!!! Do that vacay.... you gotta take care of you for all your podkids

Roxanna McLaughlin

Oh yeah! I just got my Native Bee cards. Now. That said, heal yourself, then heal the rest.

Kristi Narang

Alie, we love you! Take some time to take care of yourself. It's just like we have been learning from you and all your awesome guests

Tracy Fisher

Hey Girl! Glad you are finally taking a break - I can hear how tired you have been this last year. I know its been a rough ride. Seriously though, from one workaholic to another though you need to be more disciplined about the holiday thing- life will go on if you take a break. 4 weeks a year minimum from now on! Got it??.We will all still be here when you get back. I think you should seriously consider a good 3 months off to reset and heal. Love you!

River

we love you too Alie. so happy you are taking a break

Kpelliss

Please please take the time you need....plus a really good vacation!

Marion Homier

You are such a treasure! I hope you'll do everything to be good to your self and to heal your body, and we'll all be here when you're ready to return. The encores are a treat for someone like myself who only found you a year or so ago -- they're like the "best of" Alie Ward. This old lady just thinks you hung the moon and I wish you the best recovery and time away with your sweetie.

Doctor (almost!) Elder

Please, please take all the time you need. Sending healing thoughts your way, I hope you recover soon and enjoy a well deserved vacation.

Meowedel

Love you!!! Take a much needed break and relax. Vacations are so important for your mental and physical health. We’ll all still be here when you get back.

Kyle hunter

YES! Take care of yourself! Sending all the love! Enjoy your vacay!

Karen Riley

Please take care of yourself. The ADHD series changed my life. You do important work and we need you around. Rest, Fluids, Meditate, repeat. Super fan an RN's orders.

Emmett M Wald

SO PROUD OF YOU! Taking a break is so hard, even when your body is begging you for it (source: me doing the last two years of college with Epstein-Barr and refusing to take time off 🤦). I hope you recover fully and have a wonderful restorative vacation. We will all be here when you get back. ❤️

Ellen Durnal

FEEL BETTER DAD! We love you and we'll be here when you're ready. Your health is much more important than anything and you deserve to give your body a rest and then have a fun vacay.

Dan Sterrett

Please listen to them and take as much time as you need. <3

Noel Dietz

Rest up, Dad, we'll be here when you come back. ❤️

KatCatLynRon

Dear Alie, you could post encores for literally years and we would still throw money at you. You are a shining gem of a human and we are so grateful for you. Please rest up and tell us all about it when you get back 😘

Erin Bagley

Wishing you rest and rejuvenation! We will be here, excited to hear what you have to say when you come back.

Emily Hurd

We hope you have the best break ever!

Aubrey Nelson

You’ve given us so many amazing episodes to re-listen to that we are all set! Take care of yourself completely and come back to us whole. Lots of love to you!

Blessed are the cheesemakers

What makes your show awesome is you! I think I speak for ologites when I say we like your show, but ultimately we treasure YOU! Wishing you all the best :-)

Dennis B

Dear Alie, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO FOR US, IS TO TAKE GREAT CARE OF ALIE WARD!!! Whether it's a month or a year, we'll be here waiting for you! You're making the world a better place and that starts with your health. Be well. Rest up.

Sharon

I'd never had much of a read on our PodMom, but his aside on your published minisode? He's the best. What a great partner.

Emmett

I second this!

Emmett

Have a great break! ❤️ You deserve to enjoy every single second of your vacation, Alie, thanks for all you do!

Kathy Costerton

Please take the very best care of yourself Alie and have some well deserved rest and relaxation. I think it’s safe to say all your listeners want that for you! Meanwhile, I’m excited to listen to some excellent encores. I always get so much more out of hearing them a second time! 💕

Karin Celestine

We care about you and we need you healthy to make more shows. You are allowed a break and I would recommend you make it part of the show that you have a set month at least off each year. It’s ok to do that and we’ll support you in the meantime. Another club I am in that I pay for have August off each year. No one minds paying all the same, it gives a good message to others too that breaks are needed. We can manage with less sometimes and you will be better for it.

Sir Monkeyboy

There is no show without you so I know I’m not alone in saying take your time. There are more than enough episodes to re-absorb and enjoy for all of us already in the catalog. Take care.

Kim Franke

We all love you and want to spend as many years as we can with you so you need to take care of yourself and don't forget to just sit (or stand) and just breathe which I know is so damn hard but it helps. Get better soon and have fun and relax on your vacation.

Bee Morrison

We'll be here when you get back Alie. We're patient, we're grateful for the podcast. Rest well <3

Hannah Bean

Get well soon! We’ll be here when you’re ready, take all the time you need <3

Phoebe Teskey

Take *clap* care *clap* of *clap* yourself *clap* And maybe this is a good reason to do bi-monthly episodes instead of once a week! It's a lot of work and I appreciate ologies so much, it's ok if the episodes slow down or come out less frequently.

Christine Pikstein (she/her)

Take care of you, Dadward. We'll be here when you get back. Sending love (I'm still learning how to use emoji). 🩷🖤🩷

floraandthefaun

yes vacation! yes taking time to heal! yes encore episodes! 🧡🦋🧡🦋 sending all the best vibes and much love!!

Chris Pottroff

I'm just writing the same thing as everyone else because I want Dadward to have as many messages as possible reiterating the love and support. Ologies is my running companion and I'll keep listening to the encores until it's time for new ones, and then I'll listen to those. I think this is common with podcasts, but I feel like you're a good, good friend and I want you to do what you need to do for you!

Garden Specialist

TAKE A VACATION VACATION!!! I'm burned out AF too. YOU taking care of yourself INSPIRES US all. Take as much time as you need! We love and support you. relax and heal.

Mariah Walzer

Rest up! Get better! Enjoy your vacation! Spend time looking at rocks and tiny creatures at the beach! Sending you so much love and good vibes <3

Elyce

Enjoy your vacation vacation! 😎 Rest, relax and heal 🧘‍♀️We’ll be here when you get back 🫶

Kathleen Sachs

I’m so glad to hear that you’re taking a break. I’m pretty much in the same boat. This summer, a problematic family member was in the news. They’ve done some terrible things, I’ve seen some scary behavior when I was growing up, and the most heartbreaking thing is that there’s been very little accountability. It’s shaken me to my core. The past few weeks, I’ve been resting. My doctor also switched around my meds, and this is the first day in a long time I’ve been able to sit down, listen to a podcast, and not have the speakers sound like the teacher from the Peanuts cartoon (because I can’t focus). As for the problematic person, I’ve started going to a support group and writing letters to those who are in a position to do something. It may not get the desired outcome, but at least I am speaking up and not shutting down because I’m scared. I want you to know that your health, happiness, and well-being are important to me. PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. I love the show and will still be here when you get back.

Keri Turner

I'm so glad you're listening to your body and taking time to heal. Please don't worry about us. We will simply be all the more excited for your return when you're all better!

Tamara D

100% Thank you for sharing this with us. You deserve to take a vacation at least once a year! Enjoy the beach! We will all be here when you get back and happy to have a happier and healthier Alie!

Catherine Sweitzer

Take care of yourself! Proud of you for taking time, including a vacation. Not for now: mayyyybeee the format of the show could morph for you to be able to build in breaks without feeling like you’re stepping away and breaking expectations. Just a thought 😇 Enjoy

Lynn Perry

I second this recommendation! 2 weeks only gets the adrenals back to baseline. When I worked for Aldus (software company) we got 6 week sabbatical after 10 years. Based on that data, you should get ~3.5 weeks. Take them!

Paul Hoffman

Am replying late because I just got back from vacation. :-) We want you healthy today, tomorrow, after vacation, and however long you can keep our ears warm and tingly.

Lynn Perry

Ok so I have to tell you that I knew a young (<30) woman who just had a baby and didn’t get treatment for her pneumonia. They induced a coma to wait for her lungs to heal (they were leaking air into her chest cavity). She didn’t make it. So many of us love you! I’d rather have reruns for the next two months and a DadWard who does shows every other week (or less) when healing’s done. Sending mighty healing energy. 😷 🤒 👩🏼‍⚕️

zackever8

We love you Alie!

Lynn Perry

Such a lovely reply. Congrats on your vacation!

Jim Ewan

So happy that you are taking the time to regain your health. You are so fantastic. Your show is a like having a healthy chocolate cake!

MsMagoo

Please take as long as you need with ZERO GUILT. I enjoy your wacky, witty, & informative podcast SO MUCH! We can wait for you to heal both inside & out. You pour so much of yourself into your work it’s just common sense that you need to recharge! Looking forward to some cool encore listens!!

Katy Armstrong

The great thing about this group is that you've created a sense of community where we all want the best for each other. That includes you! Take all the rest you need, we're not going anywhere.

ChickenChomper

You are amazing! Please take your vacation - guilt free! Thank you so much for what you do!! :) Look for sea cucumbers (my favourite marine invert) if you find yourself on a beach with a tropical coral reef!

Silas Guion

It’s all been said, but you deserve all the messages affirming you and taking care of your health. Alie, you are so loved and appreciated - rest, heal, recharge and enjoy. Take as long as you need, we aren’t going anywhere

Josie Chase

love you ally take all the time you need we will be here !

Suyin Doula

Time to look after yourself! Glad you made this decision to have some time off! You deserve it and we will be still here when you get back! Have a restful and great time off and away! ❤️❤️❤️

Cathlene Eland

Get better! Also, schedule more holidays on a regular basis! Enjoy the scary recovery and relax time 💗

Laurel Sindewald

I'm so glad you're taking a break!!! I've really related to your continuous state of overwork over the past several years (and probably many more). While it's helped me to stick with a very large workload for a PhD, I am now burned out and nearly done. If you can take a break, I can too (soon). Thanks for inspiring me and keeping me company through so many hours of solitary lab work. But even badasses need breaks. Thanks for inspiring us all to do that too.

Savannah Jessop

I love you dad ward! I appreciate everything you do for us❤️👾👾

Kieran H

Take it easy, Dad Ward. <3 We'll just be chillin' here until you're well enough to come back. You deserve a rest and vacation!!

Your New Favorite Animal Podcast

We’ll be here when you get back no matter how long you take! So many podcasts take scheduled breaks every year and I’ve wondered before how you do so much without ever taking a break for yourself—so I’m so glad you are doing this. We ologites listen to ologies because of your wonderful personality as well as the amazing guests so we care about you as a person and no one in their right mind will be disappointed that you take time to care for yourself. As a matter of fact, I now ORDER you to take at least one vacation every year (not a work vacation) to enjoy yourself and refresh. Take care Ali! We love you! ❤️

berto

What you're doing to intentionally rest + heal is an example of your love and care for the things you do so passionately, not a disappointment in the least. Super inspiring to see, and it called me in to become a patron of what I hope will shortly be a well-deserved iced bev on your vacay 🍧 🌤️ Ooh, it's gonna be so great to relax, recharge, and reflect 😎 Feel better soon and enjoy, Alie!

Melina Filomia

Love you, dad, take care of yourself and I’ll hear you later!

Lisa Cottrell

Glad you are taking care of yourself!

meggawat

We support you and your team!! TAKE 👏🏻 A 👏🏻 BREAK 👏🏻 Enjoy a beach or just enjoy your couch 💕

Ann Hanlin

Alie, thank you so much for taking break. You need it, you deserve it, we will all be here when you get back. I’ll be happily listening to the encore episodes knowing that you are having an absolute blast resting and staring at the ocean and drinking fruity drinks and hopefully napping like nonstop. Love you dadward. Go do nothing for a while and please don’t feel guilty or scared about it. 🏝️ 🩷 🏖️ 🍹

Mimz

You have to take care of you first, we'll all manage fine and be waiting right here for you whenever you're ready to come back! Sending love & healing, Kim & Elliot (my 11yo son who is obsessed with you & your show!)

Sarah Ruiz

Alie, sweet friend I’ve never met, I am so proud of you. I know this is a hard decision- I’ve been there. Worked so hard and long and placed keeping up or getting ahead above my own health, the the point I had to take a medical leave. It breaks my heart to hear you are experiencing this and even more so to hear how you feel the need to justify it. Please please remember that are good and loved and appreciated and worthy of rest and health, regardless of your productivity and presence in this space. Listen to Sister Song by Perfume Genius. We will be here, waiting hopefully, and forever keeping this space for you for when you decide to come back.

Kim Hamlin

We love you, Dadward! ♥️

Kyla Kelly

Take it easy and rest up! We'll be here when you get back :)

Nick A

Enjoy your time away! There will always be more interviews to do when you get back

ElCee

Have you considered that it might be healthy to take a summer break from the show every year? I support you on patreon, not for any extras, but because you got me through training for a half marathon and have kept me company on a zillion long drives. When a friend is sick, I don't demand their time, and you have created something that acts as a strange parasocial lil friend to so many. Your audience will wait. ❤️

Eri

Ally, thank you for setting an example to us all who are passionate about what we do and fearful of taking necessary time for self care, not only for the short-term recovery but long-term survival. I found your podcast via a share in a RadioLab newsletter a while back and slowly have been working my way through the archive. I've shared a bunch of your episodes with my husband - along with my friends - who listened to his first podcast, your Dendrology episode! He also hasn't listened to the Ludology episode (which I wasn't sure if I'd like but know that I'm going to listen to it again once I've gone through all your episodes) but I shared the bit about the overcoming a challenge in a video game. He's said he's approached Zelda in a completely different way, so much gratitude from us and the other friends, who haven't given me feedback but probably are totally loving your show and sharing it to their friends! ❤️🫶🏼

Bella Oleksy

Take as long as you need Dadward!

Olivia

Rest up! Take care of yourself! :)

Linda English

Get better!! We will all be here when you get back <3

Teresa & David

You are worthy of rest and health. You don't have to "earn" it. Take as long as you need to heal yourself, recharge yourself, and love yourself. No worries, we'll all be here when you're ready.

Marianne Thomas

Hope you're soon feeling better & that you're able to enjoy your vacation. Also you should absolutely be taking more regular breaks. It's something I feel guilty about too. But I remind myself that nobody's best work ever got done on burnout. Look after yourself, Dadward. We'll patiently await your return. Like labradors

Liz Cleveland

Alie, you are an inspiration to us all and have handled so very much in the last few years. Rest up, rejuvenate and come back when it is right for you. We will all be here listening to past episodes-getting smarter because of them. Thank you for all you do, have done and will do.

Heidi Stooshnoff

Oh man this break is going to be SOOO GOOD FOR YOU!! Cheers from Vancouver Canada where I was recently on a bus on Vancouver Island and squealed “ologiiiieeesss” at a stranger who was sporting an Ologies tote. We are everywhere and we support you!!

Steve Kelem

I've worked in Silicon Valley, and gone through the "death marches" to get product out, based on poor planning, unrealistic schedules, and 80 hour weeks. IT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE! You need to have personal time! I had a colleague who drove in and home in the dark every day. He was at a gas station, in the dark, when he couldn't remember if he was going to or from work. He decided it was time to go home and rest. My wife slept on the floor in my cubicle a few nights when I pulled all-nighters, just so she could see me. It's not a way to work or live. This isn't broadcast TV, where you have to have a new episode every week at the same time. Podcasts are better than that. You should have personal time every day, and a vacation at least every year. BTW, when I need to clear my mind, I go square dancing (3x/week). They're not all "Yee haw, howdy, Minnie Pearl" events. The challenge levels are, well, fun, challenging, and clear your mind of all the worries of the day. And you make friends. Dr. Steve

Rachel Rees

Good for you! Take a break! OMG take one every year not every 6!! We will be here when you get back. We love you!

Kelly Roetto

You are a national treasure and you deserve a vacation, rest, and time to heal. Thank you for being so amazing!!

brucatini

We'll be here when you get back no matter how much time you need, get some freakin rest!!

Cindy K

Yes! Every year!

Cindy K

Agree 👆🏼

Cindy K

👏🏼

Cindy K

I third this!

Anna Epps

Don’t read this until you feel better, which I hope is soon, but I will still love you if it takes longer.

Ryan Marlow

You are the literal best. Go rest. Take care of yourself. We'll still be here when you get back, promise.

Megan Younce

You deserve it!! Feel better enjoy the break and don’t worry about us, we’ll be right here when you get back all rested up!!!

Leila Laco

Dadward getting a well-deserved break and us listeners getting updates and reflections from Ologists is a win-win in my book! This could be an annual event and I would look forward to it every year 😀 But even if you had to take a complete break from episodes, even encores, once a year or even more often we would totally understand 💕

Meaghan McVicker

We all hope you heal, rest deeply and thoroughly, and do NOT read your messages until you get back! Shut off and unplug 👍☮️🩷 I understand the feeling when I ran my small business, during the pandemic. I still feel like I haven’t recovered from it. Sending you love and healing vibes on your vacay.

Julie-Anne

What a winner you are – so proud of you for taking well needed time off, and so grateful to you for sharing this with us.

Lyssa Mercier

Oh Alie, you 1000% deserve a break and some real time for self-care and rest. We love you and will be here whenever you are ready to get back. You are amazing, I hope you feel better soon and have lots of fun on your holiday!💖

Chrissi

Don't worry. We'll be here when you're back 🐙♥️

Sara Hook

Listen to the Hamilton song “Take A Break”! Otherwise you will have a sordid affair, be blackmailed, write a ridiculous pamphlet named Reynold and Angelica AND Eliza are going to be 😡 ❤️🐠🫵🏾

Neal Sorensen

All the compassion to you! Glad you're taking time to get well. And the smallest of suggestions. Maybe do a yearly vacation instead of every 6...?

Melissa Croce

Yay rest!! Please take as much time as you need, and we’ll see you when you get back!

Jenny

Sending so much love! We appreciate you so much. I absolutely understand and encourage this break! <3

Amy Tartaglia

Sending love and appreciation, Alie, so glad you are taking time for rest and healing! I could listen to any and all past episodes multiple times and each time come away more enriched and delighted. We will see you when you return! <3

Handrea

Take all the time you need Podpops!! We'll all be here when you get back. Take good care ❤️

Chrysalis Ashton

We love you and we need you to take time for yourself and rest and heal so you can come back strong and bright and bubbly as ever and make Ologies for (approximately) 100 more years. At least. Love, one of your geeky Podward Children. ❤️❤️❤️

Tooba Ahmed

Sending love and appreciation for YOU.

Hillary

Take good care, please, Dadward! Podmom, keep her honest! I love this podcast, and have learned so much, and my social media is so much more enjoyable now since I follow every ologist you’ve interviewed!

Gene Phillips

I'm not going to pretend that I won't miss new episodes of my favorite podcast, but I will take deep pleasure in thinking about you relaxing on a beach and getting healthy.

Unity

Soooo….just listening to Wizardology/Potterology episode from 2019…where in an advertisement you just let it drop that you “had pneumonia last week”…

Unity

Every year for a bunch of em, We got it…scarring began to occur…etc…blah blah…

Unity

Then on the 8th year when We ALMOST DIED…some folks We love also held a little come to the deity of your choice talk with Us…good news first…worked…bad news, took 11 weeks of the most intensely boring resting, until it wasn’t…please take the Best care of you DadWard. ✨🫶

Dianna Smith

We want to keep listening for years to come so what’s a few weeks for you to take care of yourself. Do it. We’re here and we will still be here. No guilt. Just be as kind to yourself as you would be to any of us.

Hana Rupnow

I have been listening to you for years. As a recent college grad, I didn’t (still don't) have a high monthly income. So I support the show via reviews and sending episodes to friends/family. I've definitely got a few people hooked too. After listening to your mini-sode on Spotify, I had to jump in and finally join the patreon. $1/mo? All caution to the wind. You're so worth it. I LOVE YOU DAD WARD. You've made a beautiful family and I'm so happy to be apart of it.

Monica Engle

Girl, yes! Take a vacation every year, you and you're fam deserve it! We're gonna be here for you when you get back. Get better and God bless.

Eric Skaar

You SO deserve a break! Please focus on your health. Your community will be here for you as long as it takes.

Hankie Mundane

Loving these encores! Holy internet crush on dr natter!! And have loved Helen/Allusionist for many years; it’s so sweet to hear your friendship with each of them. Wishing you best and deep healing.

Hankie Mundane

Hey Ali. Love that you’re taking a break for your health. Did you that in eastern tradition (TCM etc) grief and the lungs are related… or grief is felt/experienced/held in the lungs. I can’t help but think your lungs are forcing you to ‘vacation’ and grieve. Sounds terrible and painful and hard and necessary for a long healthy life without grief and trauma being shoved into your muscles and fascia as fibromyalgia because you were so committed to your lovely brilliant internet radio show that you didn’t pause and feel through it because you’ve got a science brain and want to think through it instead. Love you so much. Wishing you deepest hardest healing and light and east days of rest. ✨❤️💫

Katie Murray

Think about how you’d encourage a friend in your circumstances (health, no vacation in years). You wouldn’t reprimand that friend, you’d lovingly and gently say, “hey chill out. In the best way possible: you’re not as important as you think you are. You’re SO loved and this show is SO cherished.” Also think about Saturday Night Live! They (miraculously) do a weekly show, too. But they take multiple weeks-long breaks every single year. If Lorne Michaels allows himself vacation, you should too.

Tegan J

Big hugs and a few bucks coming to you from Aus. P.S. have you checked your crevices while you've been on your break?

Lindsay Mayer

We love you and all that you do and we can’t love what you do if you can’t do it and you can’t do it if you don’t take care of yourself so if you love us you will take care of yourself. Thank you for taking a break!

Julia Abbott

I am loving your ologies and I want you to be able to do them for a long time too! I’m new here so I have lots of older eps to catch up on anyway. I grew up with tv seasons and so reruns in summer seem normal. So no worries, take the time you need, we’ll be here. (And pneumonia sucks! What is it anyway? Is there an ologies about it? Sending good thoughts to your avioli.)

King Donna

Hi! I'm not sure the appropriate place to put this: today's smallogies has a five minute gap of silence starting at the end of the ad break around 14:16 returning at 22:55. I think it may have happened in another episode but i was too busy to stop and log. I double checked and this is not the recast feed. I deleted and reloaded, the silence remains. My platform is pocket casts. No harm to foul here, just alerting to what might be a recurring error. Feel better babe!

Erin Gill

Alie, you should be taking 4-6 weeks off work a year. We will be here when you get back! We are supporting Ologies in the long run and there will be no episodes at all if you munt yourself. Humans need rest. Tis science.

Natalie Rousseau

BOO YOU DO YOU! I just joined to tell you that. Actually I meant to join a long time ago but life made even $1/month a sketch purchase. It’s no longer sketchy so I am here telling you TAKE THE BREAK. I started listening to the ADHD episode and then in typical ADHD fashion fell down the Allie Ward rabbit hole. I love love your show. It gives me random facts to dazzle the clients I work with (which I work in sex offender rehab so dropping weird dolphin facts is quite unexpected) and it is wonderful to just be kid level excited about shit. Take your break. Heal your body. Come back stronger, more powerful, and more curious.

Deanna Madigan

Sending all the love to you Dadward. You do so much for the ologies community and for everyone in your life, you are definitely beyond overdue for some time for you! Have fun. Be safe! Wear sunscreen. ☀️ ❤️ 🐸 🌸

Sutton Moore

Life happens! You need to take care of yourself first. I hope you get all the rest and relaxation, and enjoy your time off.

Alanya Snyder

This is my first comment. Yes, take the time! Good role modeling for all of us! Be well, rest up, it's the way we all need to live.

Leo H

The last 30 seconds of this video. If you ever start to doubt that you need or deserve a break, turn it back and imagine you're talking to yourself. I just joined after blowing through a bunch of them when I came across this podcast a few months ago, and thought I'd drop you some encouragement, from a HCP who doesn't do it near enough myself, but will always encourage it of my patients.

Silent H

The hustle culture/mindset that one should feel guilty about taking time off is so messed up! Good for you for taking a break. Next time, don't wait until you're at a breaking point to do it! Vacation shouldn't be time to recuperate and so you can get ready to get back to work - recuperation should be built into the daily/annual schedule. Vacation should be time to have fun, and if you have no energy to have fun on vacation because your job is using it all up, that's not a sustainable/fair balance. Take care!

Lauren Kent

I love you beyond belief, Dad ward. I really hope you're healing and enjoying your time to yourself. I'm so glad you're giving yourself the time you've needed. I hope you continue to do so far more frequently than every 6 years. You're incredible and you deserve the love you are giving yourself. Heal up, and we'll hear from you when you're ready. ☺️🥰❤️🤗

Erin Bridges

The mental image of Alie learning to surf and journalling on a beach has given my overworked mind some respite this month. Hope you find some cool seashells out there, Dadward!

Francesca Huggins

Is there anywhere we can send well wishes/care packages as she recovers?

Ashleigh Rivers

Hey Dad Ward, I’m a bit late sending you my absolute best wishes for recovery and recuperation (lost access to my Patreon for a bit— sad trombone). I’m proud of you for taking care of yourself and YOU DESERVE A BREAK!! And please do it more than every 6 years. I’ve loved the little updates from the Ologists. We do love you and want you to take care of yourself!! Rest and relax and have FUN too! Journal to your heart’s content. Float. Surf. Don’t get sunburn but soak up some sun. Hell, get sand in your crevices (but not ticks, please). And thanks for the reminder to do the same. Your podcast mini-sode actually made me stop and think of I’m also plugging along out of fear of losing the thing I created. So thanks for the encouragement to also consider why we’re doing what we’re doing. I always talk about scarcity mindset being so bad for everyone, but maybe I’m guilty of it too. (Yikes!) You’re the best and I hope you are feeling better than you have in at least a decade, maybe more. 💚

Drae-Drae

Oh my gosh we all love you and we definitely want you healthy! Also, happy would be really nice. So I hope you can get into the habit of at least an annual vacay. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 💚💚💚

M. Underwood

Dear Allie - Would you feel better if you let all of us know when your next weeklong vacation is and we’ll all just take the week off too. I bet a lot of us need a break, too. Love you!

Greendesertdog

I only recently joined on Patreon and just happened upon this video today. Hope you had a fabulous, restorative vaca! I stumbled across the podcast a few months ago and jumped around picking a few things I thought might be interesting. Then I had to go back and start at the very beginning and go through them all!! I'm up to Somnology and loving it. It will be fun to get to listen to the updates with the ologists when I get caught up to real time. From a Medical TechnOLOGIST (although they call us Medical Laboratory Scientist these days) who loves loves loves science and has learned so much and had so much fun listening.

Shoshannah

I sometimes stink at words - and regardless of now being one of those times, I want to let you know that you are adored. Thank you for taking care of your beautiful soul.

Cecile Marie Garcia

Alie! My employer allots a minimum of 10 vacation days a year “use or lose “ to encourage staff to make it an annual occurrence. And the higher the pay grade, the more vacation time up to 4 weeks/year. You are CEO of Ologies so you deserve 4 weeks a year. I’ve threatened my health too by working too hard for too long. We love you & the show & want you to live a balanced life.

Robert G Audet

Dear, sweet Alie, So grateful for the work you have done. I recently found Ologies and have been working my way forward - now up to early 2019 and absolutely loving every single episode, even the ones I skipped initially. Who you are, what you do, how you express your love and empathy for life is pure joy and far beyond words. I’m sorry to hear you’ve fallen on hard times this past year (just learned about your dear father’s passing). To enable you to live your best life it is so important that you take the most loving care of yourself that you can. Then you will have so much more to give from your overflow. You are a beautiful soul and one of the most joyful, expressive, childlike blessings to all who listen to you. Thank you for your self care and your passion for this work. Now go relax, Heal thyself and find that inner peace and get it back online when you’re ready. Love you to the next universe and beyond. 🤩❤️‍🔥❤️

Sarah Nyland

I’m so glad you took a break!!! I love you and what you do, and as someone struggling to balance my energy and overcome anxiety I feel this so harrrd dude. Super happy you’re taking care of yourself.

Jeffrey Vanderlip

I love your podcast and I have been recommending it to everyone I know. But your health comes first. Please take care of yourself so we will have ologies to look forward to for years to come!

Peyton Nill

alie! So glad you’re taking a break. Your health is #1, everything else is way after. I just went through this with work too - I am not an army medic on a battle field, I’m just in marketing. I will not approach my work with the intensity of someone trying to restart someone’s heart. Same for you! We love new episodes but you are not an army medic plugging bullet holes. Rest and recover and prioritize yourself over this podcast. And please do not do it in a hut with rats??

Drew Varnado

Take time, yo! We will be here. And it should really be an annual thing, not every 6 years. We want this podcast to go on for a long time, and I, for one, will not sacrifice that glorious future for 8 more pods this year. We love you and we will be here when you get back!

Bugzie

We love you dadward! Enjoy this time for you. I want dad to be around forevs!! Hopefully this can be an ANNUAL reset ❤️❤️

Brent

Alie we all love your show, but we love you even more! If you don't get better we all, including you, might not have the show with you, if your health continues to decline. So, it's a no brainer.... You need to take care of yourself first and foremost. When you get better and start up again, you know damn good and well, we'll all still be here. You make us all feel a warm welcoming from you, like we're family! Family sticks together through thick & thin. And who knows, while you are journaling and letting your thoughts flow organically, I have a feeling you're going to come up with more incredible ideas not only for Oligies, but also for other projects & paths you haven't even thought of yet. I for one am thrilled your taking time for your self. None of us want to loose you!! So please don't worry about any of us while you are collecting good energy. We love you and we will still be right here when you come back. Godspeed darlin'!

Sara Cooper

I see this was posted in August, so I’m hoping you are much better now, and this is not a sick notice encore meaning that you are sick again! Also, I’m wondering if the 2009 “vacation” in a hut with rats spurred a ratology episode. I’m going to hunt for that.

Shawn Browne

Thank you for stepping outside of your comfort zone to take care of you. We've grown to love your personality and your show and can't imagine our weeks without it.

Jesse

Feel better! We’ll be here! You should build this kind of thing into your life every year instead of every six years. We can wait for you!

Bella Holtz

So glad you’re resting and taking care of yourself ❤️ Take all of the time you need! Sending love & comfort & warm wishes.

Leclerc fan

Take care of you girl! 🥰