I've been reading Tricia Hersey's book, Rest is Resistance: A manifesto.
I'm thinking about her work in the context of all of the "new year, new you," resolution, goal setting, habit forming content that's everywhere this week.
Hersey writes,
...taking your time and disrupting dominant culture's need to rush is liberation. To just be, to deepen into what already is and can never be taken from us is the praxis.
and,
We are not resting to be productive. We are resting simply because it is our divine right to do so.
and,
A feeling of anxiety of what needed to be done was always hovering over me. I was never taught that I had a wealth of healing information and guidance waiting for me in a slowed-down state of a DreamSpace. I was told the opposite: that you had to always be doing labor to fix. I didn't see my body as a place of infinite wisdom but instead saw it as a tool to be used to push, create, figure out, and do. [...] Our constant labor becomes a prison that allows us to become disembodied.
and
How can we afford to rest when the colonizing Empire we live within daily continues to rage on and grow stronger? [...] Yes, the system continues raging and destroying, but we will not be able to tap into space of freedom, joy, and rest by pushing our precious bodies and minds in abusive ways. To rest is to creatively respond to grind culture's call to do more.
(There are dozens of quotes I wanted to share with you. Definitely read the book.)
And so, as we start 2024, I'm thinking more deeply about my own approach to rest.
What does it look and feel like to be rested? (I'm not sure I know.)
Where is room for rest in my schedule? In my plans and intentions? In my expectations of myself and my work?
In what ways can I work with clients to answer these questions about rest for themselves as part of a healing framework?
Maybe these questions will be helpful for you, too, as you think about the year ahead. May 2024 bring peace, rest, and growth where it is most needed 
Take care,
Camille
