The Founder of the Nap Ministry on the Ways Rest Can Be a Form of Resistance

If what matters to us is what we’re concerned about, then play and rest is important. If what matters to us is what other people think or say or value, then it’s back to exhaustion and producing for self-worth.

The world thinks rest, recovery, and general refusal of work is gross. You can — and should — do it anyway. ●

These days my work is very Non-Sacral. As an entrepreneur of a multi-6 figure business, it can be really challenging to not work all the time. There is always, always more work to be done. But I have learned to delegate to staff so we can share the load, and I have surrendered to the truth that my rest is far more powerful than my work. If I don’t

In addition to our drive to build a better world, we also live in a time when productivity and impact feed the lies we believe about ourselves. The constant pressure to do more, to fill up our schedules, to work harder. But we have to stop the busyness or we will be stopped by burnout and exhaustion. Stillness teaches us restraint, and in restraint