Your Relationship to REST: Breaking Down the "Idle Hands" Conditioning

Your Relationship to REST: Breaking Down the "Idle Hands" Conditioning

From Courage to Rise by Jennifer Wreyford, Personal Leadership Coach

February 25, 2025 · 42 min · Season 2 · Episode 11

About this episode

This episode explores the relationship with rest and the societal conditioning around productivity.

What's your relationship with "rest"? I don't mean sleep...I mean: REST. What's your relationship with the idea of NOT "being productive" everysingleminute? I recently explored this in my women's coaching program, The Unf*ckwithable Woman, and it's such a important topic that I wanted to bring it to my listeners as well. In this episode, we'll dive into: Your current relationship with the concept of rest Shame and guilt about resting/not being productive Where this conditioning tends to originate What's actually true about rest How to shift your relationship with rest I also share about my experiment with what I dubbed "radical rest" in January of this year.

Topics covered

  • rest
  • productivity
  • shame
  • guilt
  • conditioning

Keywords

  • radical rest
  • self-care
  • women's coaching

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