Ep 16 - If the World's Burning is Burning You Out, Be Conscious of Rest

In this urgent episode, Dana Tenille Weekes speaks to the global unrest that is happening around us and what it means for rest as self-liberation. She talks directly to listeners who are opting to "rest" to avoid and disengage from the world's realities or those listeners who are refusing to rest for the "sake of the movement." 

Dana continues to build on the past two episodes, which focus on rest in the context of comfort, peace, and liberation. She also revisits the rest continuum and how people must cultivate spaces for the continuum's three forms of rest to sustain themselves and, in turn, any movement that progresses humanity forward.  

Dana shares:

• Why ignoring global unrest for the sake of “comfort” isn’t rest at all
• How your silence and inaction can deepen unrest for others
• Why truth is the undercurrent of her definition of rest
• The rest continuum - doing nothing/being, restoring, and liberating – and practical ways to incorporate these three forms of rest into your life today
• How sustained movements for justice require sustained people who are grounded in their agency and belonging

She reminds us that rest is not a retreat from reality, but a way to remain strong, conscious, and present in it.

✨ Key reflection prompts:

• Are you living in comfort at the expense of truth and others’ humanity?
• How can you protect and uphold truth using your strengths?
• What rest do you need right now to reconnect with your agency and belonging?

If anything in this episode feels like a message or a mirror, share it with someone ready to think about rest differently.

If this episode feels like a message or mirror, feel free to share it with someone who is looking to think about rest differently.

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