
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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