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Why we feel guilty & uncomfortable when resting
- When we can begin to tap into the deep vessel of who we truly are, so many things would end about oppression. I believe the powers that be don’t want us rested because they know that if we rest enough, we are going to figure out what is really happening and overturn the entire system. Exhaustion keeps us numb, keeps us zombie-like, and keeps us on ... See more
from The Founder of the Nap Ministry on the Ways Rest Can Be a Form of Resistance
Nicole Woods added
I’m writing this installment with the themes of the last—exhaustion, burnout, tiredness, rest—still in mind. There are so many reasons why any of us might feel exhausted and depleted, but just now I find myself wondering how much of it is the result of aimless labors that serve only the operations of a techno-economic system designed to offer us ev
... See morefrom Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
sari added
we tend to resist and skip the part of the creative cycle that requires us to rest, incubate, even hibernate to transform and grow. Burnout forces us to stop and pay attention
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
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