Rest Is Resistance

Fear and scarcity are a big part of how the culture keeps us bound up in the hamster wheel. Our own personal experiences and the continued reinforcement we receive from those around us paralyze us with disbelief. I was told repeatedly by employers, friends, teachers, politicians, and church leaders that life was for doing, hustling, and following a

All of culture is working in collaboration for us not to rest, and when we do listen to our bodies and take rest, many feel extreme guilt and shame. Embrace knowing that you have been manipulated and scammed by a violent system as powerful evidence.

Capitalism has cornered us in such a way that we only can comprehend two options. 1: Work at a machine level, from a disconnected and exhausted place, or 2: Make space for rest and space to connect with our highest selves while fearing how we will eat and live.

When I say sleep helps you wake up—it helps you wake up to the truth of who and what you are. And the system doesn’t want that. It would crumple under the weight of this power.

Much of our resistance to rest, sleep, and slowing down is an ego problem.

Take time with reading, processing, and healing. It is not a race. Urgency is a myth that preys upon your fears about the future.

When I spend time processing the manipulation, the scam, and declaration by grind culture that our bodies do not belong to us and instead belong to systems seeking domination and wealth, it enrages and saddens me. Collective rest is not about just changing our individual lives but shifting the entire paradigm of culture. Our disruption of capitalis

Capitalism was created on plantations. The roots of it are violence and theft. We as a culture gloss over this historical truth.

White supremacy thinking has taught us there is only a binary and the rigidity of this type of thinking keeps us available to the toxic systems, but unable to inhabit the divinity of our true selves. This is a time to simply stop and feel. A time to not force or attempt to make sense of what can and will happen when we allow our bodies to heal from