1. I am resting my eyes and listening for what God wants to tell me”. While all the world around her was attempting to crush her spirit,
2. Rest is a healing portal to our deepest selves. Rest is care. Rest is radical. We must stand and lay firmly in the space of creating a life filled with rest and radical care, even amid oppression.
3. This is a blessing. Rest is radical because it disrupts the lie that we are not doing enough. It shouts: “No, that is a lie. I am enough. I am worthy now and always because I am here”. The Rest is Resistance movement is a connection and a path back to our true nature. We are stripped down to who we really were before the terror of capitalism and white supremacy. We are enough. We are divine. Our bodies don’t belong to these toxic systems. We know better. Our Spirits know better. The legacy of exhaustion stops with me.
4. I wish you rest today. I wish you a deep knowing that exhaustion is not a normal way of living. You are enough. You can rest. You must resist anything that doesn’t centre your divinity as a human being. You are worthy of care.
5. Our worth is not connected to how much we produce. Another way is possible. Our shared history is one of extreme disconnection and denial. We ignore our bodies’ need to rest and in doing so, we lose touch with Spirit.
6. Capitalism has cornered us in such a way that we only can comprehend 2 options 1: Work at a machine level, from a disconnected and exhausted place, or 2: Make space for rest and space to connect with our highest selves while fearing how we will eat and live.
7. Grieving the reality of being manipulated to believe we are not enough, divine, or valuable outside of our accomplishments and bank account is a central part of our rest work. Is it sad and disturbing.
8. I understand that many reading this book have never sat with the grief and pain associated with attaching your worth to productivity and money. This fact alone is enough reason to rest.
9. Will you trust me and trust your divinity enough to believe it is indeed not hopeless? Can you trust, even for a second, that we can reside in a rested future? I ask for us to walk this road slowly together,
10. Grind culture is a collaboration between capitalism and white supremacy.
11. What day will you be able to remove one app from your phone in an effort to retain expansiveness for yourself.
12. We don’t have to be everything. We don’t have to know everything. We don’t have to do everything. There is space for the unknown. There is space for curiosity and mystery.
13. Stay here for a while. Stay in the space knowing that you are not a failure, inadequate or unworthy because you are tired and want to rest.
14. We are not resting because social media has stolen our ability to exist without it. A perfect plan to keep us distracted and addicted. The algorithms guiding our every move, putting unnecessary pressure on many to post, retweet, hashtag, and grow their platforms obsessively.
15. Our mental health is strengthened when we are away from the glare of computer screens and not absorbing the thoughts and ideas of THOUSANDS of people during one day of endless scrolling. Can you imagine a few hours a day of not being connected to your phones or email inboxes? What feelings rise inside when you imagine it? What if this day was extended to a full day or full week? A month? What would you replace the hours of online engagement with? Could a hobby be cultivated during this time that could give you pleasure? Would you have more time to daydream, rest, nap? Would you go to bed earlier? Does it feel stressful to think about not having your phone nearby? What has the pervasive nature of social media and cell phones done to our quiet time?
16. Urgency is a myth that preys upon your fears about the future. Like Audre Lorde, I am totally enamored and lay my body on the altar of poetry. I am a dreamer because I am a poet. In her essay “Poetry is Not a Luxury”, she poetically shares her attachment and belief in poetry as necessity for hope. I sometimes lay down and read her poetry with the hope that I will fall asleep while reading it, so I can drift off to sleep floating on her words. Each stanza taking me deeper into a dream state.
17. Grind culture is violence and violence creates trauma
18. The energy of Love is central to community care. Loving ourselves and each other deepens our disruption of the dominant systems.
19. Do not let the lack of money and possessions make you feel negative about your worth as a human being!
20. I did not miss being on social media the entire time I was away. It was beautiful to be in solitude and not attacked with the thoughts, ideas, and commentary of the thousands of people online daily. My own thoughts had a chance to spread out and develop. I felt physically better, spent a lot of time face-to-face with people, and I wandered in my dreams and in awake moments. I felt more human and began to float more.

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