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Hersey, Tricia. Rest Is Resistance - A Manifesto. Little, Brown Spark. New York. 2022.

Grind culture has created a bunch of exhausted, disconnected, and traumatized people moving through life, unable to tap into their true power. We need rest to connect back to ourselves and dream.

Author notices that people must decolonize our ideas about rest and productivity; which are currently deep in chewing up people with machine pace.

Interview on CBC Tapestry - The Nap Bishop

Noted follow-up reading

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Prepare for a nap -- Starting points to jump-start your curiosity

  1. We cannot wait for the perfect space or opportunity to rest. Rest now.
  2. We must believe we are worthy of rest.
  3. Wherever our bodies are, we can embody rest.
  4. Productivity should not look like exhaustion.
  5. Deprogramming our minds and hearts from our toxic brainwashing around naps and rest will increase our ability to craft a rest practice.
  6. Grind culture is violence. Resist participating in it. This must be flexible so please also resist the desire to become rigid.

Meditations for rest - Tricia Hersey

  1. I deserve rest now
  2. I am worthy of rest
  3. I am not lazy. How could I be lazy?
  4. Capitalism wants my body to be a machine. I am not a machine.
  5. I am a magical and divine human being.
  6. I have the right to resist grind culture.
  7. I don't have to earn rest.
  8. Do less, watch how I thrive.
  9. Ease is my birthright.
  10. I will rest.

Journaling questions

Author includes 10 journaling questions to use as a guide to develop your discernment.