this week’s episode

This week we get curious about the ways grind culture separates us from the needs and desires of our bodies, especially the pleasures and challenges of rest. What does it mean to resist rest, and how might imagining rest as a creative act change our relationships with creative process?

How does rest get complicated by chronic disease and neurodivergence, and how do busyness and resentment distract us from that original source of creativity: paying attention & listening deeply to ourselves, each other, and the world around us?

links & resources

* The Scrap Heap essay: Rest is Creative: a toad, a lady on a couch, and Baubo walk into a bar

* The Prompt Portal: Rest is Creative: practicing buoyancy

* Tricia Hersey’s book, Rest is Resistance, and her website, The Nap Ministry

* Gilligan’s Island clip: Make-Shift Radio

about the show

At the end of 2024, Jenn and Sarah decided to design the workshop we needed for our own creative growth. Together, we wanted to build a creative community centered around play and exploration. We called it Joyful Practice for Dark Times.

As we continued to lead workshops, we tracked the ideas and values that guided our work and assembled a set of (ever-evolving) principles: the emergent philosophy of Joyful Practice. Those principles are the vertebrae of this podcast.

We offer this podcast as an antidote to grind culture and digital imperialism. We hope it helps you to reclaim your time, your joy, your rage, and find refuge in creative practice.

how to find us

* Substack: The Scrap Heap

* Apple Podcasts: The Joyful Practice Podcast

* Spotify: The Joyful Practice Podcast

* Instagram: @joyfulpracticeanalog

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