The Daring to Rest Podcast

What does it mean to age restfully? Karen shares her experiences with cosmetic treatments, hair extensions, gray hair, and the invisibility women can feel as they grow older. This candid, nonjudgmental episode explores how we can listen to our bodies and make the choices that help us feel most at peace with ourselves.

In this conversation, episode 2 of our 3-part series View from The Rested Path, Karen sits in circle with three Rested Path Guides - Tonya Clark, Danielle Dominick, and Lisa Trank – as we put on our rest lens and talk about education and leadership, forgiveness and rest during Elul just before the Jewish New Year, yoga nidra, Andrew Huberman, and cult‑like personalities who abuse women, and the power of myth in The Odyssey. Join us for a slow, honest conversation with rest at the center.

Show notes can be found at: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/122

What if some of your exhaustion didn't begin with you? In this episode, Karen explores inherited exhaustion, the patterns of overdoing, overgiving, striving, and constant movement that can be passed down through generations. Through a personal story about her mother and grandmother, she asks what we may still be carrying out of loyalty to the women who came before us, and what might be ready to change. The episode ends with a gentle rest practice to help you listen to your body and begin noticing what you may be ready to carry differently.

Show notes can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/121

In the first episode of View From The Rested Path, a new three-part monthly series, Karen sits down with Rested Path Guides Malica Ahmed, Charmaine Renée , and Terri Scherer to explore creativity, productivity, softness, power, and popular culture through the lens of rest. Together, they ask what becomes visible when we meet our lives and the world from a more rested place.

For show notes, and to learn more about our guests, visit: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/120

In this episode, Karen explores the math of creating a rested life and offers a gentle rest invitation to recognize the tone of rest in your day and return to it, again and again.

Show notes can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/119

In this special Mother's Day episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast Karen honors the joy and complexity of motherhood and guides you through a gentle 20-minute 61-point rest practice, inviting you to release burdens and reconnect with your true nature.

Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/118

What if your exhaustion isn't a personal weakness, but a sign you're working in a system that quietly burns through its people - especially women? In this powerful conversation, Karen talks with Dr. Consuelo Grier, a mother and higher-ed leader whose life brought her to the edge of burnout and into the deeper truth of burn through: what happens when institutions use us up faster than we can restore ourselves.

Together they explore:

• The crucial difference between burnout and burn through

• How leaders can build rest into the structure of work

• Simple, practical ways to protect your own rest before you're in chronic depletion mode

In this episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, a rest note, Karen returns from her winter rest sabbatical to explore what it means to dare to rest in the Year of the Fire Horse - a time marked by speed, intensity, and rapid transformation. As truth and shadow surface quickly in our world, including recent revelations about spiritual and wellness leaders, many women are feeling both activated and exhausted. Karen asks: In a galloping year like this, how do we stay grounded and keep from burning out?

Show Notes

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Pause with Karen for a gentle New Year's "rest audit"—exploring what to release, what to claim, and why softness might be your greatest strength. Settle in for rest reflections, deeply personal stories, and inspiration to start your year - or any season of your life - with more rest beside you.

Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/115

Join host & Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody and a circle of extraordinary women from Sisterhood 10 of our Daring to Rest Facilitator Training as they reflect on their journeys as rest leaders, yoga nidra facilitators, and students of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training. You'll hear honest stories of stepping into rest leadership, navigating burnout, and breaking generational cycles of overwork and self-denial. Stay to the end for participants' favorite rest words! This episode is ideal for any women craving inspiration, rest, and a powerful reminder that rest is a radical, loving act. It's also ideal if you're interested in joining our next Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training in January 2026.

Resources

Guest Bios:

https://daringtorest.com/podcast/114

Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training:

https://daringtorest.com/facilitator