The Rest Continuum – Exploring Three Forms of Rest (Part 3 of 3)

Host Dana Tenille Weekes closes out the three-part episode on the rest continuum by exploring the third form of rest: liberating rest. After settling in with listeners on doing nothing/being and restoring as two forms of rest, this episode of The Rest of Us podcast focuses on the importance of holding sacred space in your life to engage in liberating activities—activities in which you are enlivened by your own details. 

Dana discusses how liberating rest is often sourced from creative and nature-based activities. She also encourages listeners to start thinking about what could be our liberating activities and how to incorporate them into our lives. This episode ends with reflective questions to help listeners embrace and protect our liberating rest.

What You’ll Settle Into

• How liberating rest calls for you to engage in activities that give you a strong sense of self and do not require external validation or for the world to play a role in your liberation. 
• How liberating rest allows you to know what it feels like to be grounded in your agency and belonging, with a deep sense of self-knowing.

Key Quotes & Insights

“Our society does not encourage us to feel our liberation. For women of color and Black women, especially, we think it is a privilege or feel guilty because we believe that we should only be liberating others and serving others.” 

“We are the few, if not only, living beings with imagination, which means we all have the freedom to imagine. And, the ability to imagine means we are creative beings.” 

You must hold your liberatory activities sacred, meaning that you do that activity first and foremost for you and no one else. Liberatory activities should not be driven by a producing mindset.

LENGTH: 17 minutes