An old retired provider has been harassing me for the last several months. It started when I politely declined a meeting with her, and has escalated. Quite literally out of the blue she contacted me, and she is retired so I was not expecting any contact from her. It started with 20-25 emails per day, each day for the entire month. She is calling me names, racial slurs, and threats of showing up to my appointments, (although she has no way of doing that). It finally stopped but now has picked up again, this time with her including personal photos of me from my personal social media accounts. She has started with the degrading emails, and me has threatened me to blackmail me. She has also included a gentleman I have never heard of or met, who is sending me emails saying I have an ass whip coming and will regret it if I try to “mess” with this other provider.  I have ignored it, blocked all the emails and email addresses, but her diving into my personal life is not ok. This last round of emails she did not even try to hide her personal email address. She said to “tray to report her, see what happens “.  What can we do as providers to protect ourselves from this type of behavior?