Making The Table: Black Women Podcast

Ep 07: You Deserve Rest & Self-Care


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Historically the BIPOC community has navigated life void of rest. But at what cost? Rest rejuvenates and empowers people for a FULL life. Self-care is not selfish!


Can you commit to rest this week?


Book Referenced: Rest is Resistance by Tricia Herse

Available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/fBedZyY

In Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us.

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Making The Table: Black Women PodcastBy Sunny Brown, Paris Griffin, Jasmine Harris, Thimery Wimmer