If the World’s Burning is Burning You Out, Be Conscious of Rest

In this urgent episode of The Rest of Us, host Dana Tenille Weekes speaks to the global unrest that is happening around us and what it means for rest as self-liberation. She reminds us that rest is not a retreat from reality, but a way to remain strong, conscious, and present in it.

What You’ll Settle Into

• How opting to “rest” to escape from the world’s realities as a way of living solely in “comfort” is not rest, but unrest. 
• How refusing to rest for “the sake of the movement” does not sustain movements. 
• The rest continuum and how people must cultivate spaces for the continuum’s three forms of rest (doing nothing/being, restoring, liberating) to sustain themselves and, in turn, any movement that progresses humanity forward.

Key Quotes & Insights

“If you cannot recognize and be willing and ready to protect or confront the truths in your life, then you cannot achieve rest. There is no self-acceptance. Instead, you are living a life of comfort at the expense of other people.”

“If you have created a bubble for yourself where comfort supersedes courage, then you are living in or creating unrest. What this means is that your silence is suffocating.”

If you are neglecting yourself because all you do is fight and advocate, know that no movement can be sustained if you are not sustained. Movements require you to be connected to your agency and belonging. Your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health matter.”

LENGTH: 23 minutes