This episode is a conversation with Natalie Goldberg on her writer's block during Covid and how she lost and found her voice when she stopped everything. Natalie's new book is Writing on Empty. As a writing teacher and author of the bestselling book Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Natalie is known for starting a revolution in the way we practice writing and combining this wisdom with her background in Zen meditation.

Learn more about Natalie Goldberg and her new book here.

Join us for the next Daring to Rest Facilitator Training & Certification Program for Women. Click here.

Host Karen Brody reads her rest note "Women: Let's Not Keep Our Mouths Shut Anymore" and talks about the topics of rest, women's voices, and writing.

Resources for this episode can be found here:

http://daringtorest.com/podcast/90

Have you ever had a health challenge and felt like you tried everything to heal yet you still did not find answers? Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast I am excited to introduce you to Lissa Rankin, a mind-body medicine physician, and the author of Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of Healing. Lissa is on a mission to help people navigate the landscape of healing and curing themselves. As I am sure you know, it can be exhausting to find support out there. Lissa breaks down the light and the dark sides in this episode with the hope of helping you find answers.

Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/89

Nina Simons is a women's leadership pioneer and co-founder of Bioneers. She is the author of the book, Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership. In this episode, Karen talks with Nina about the landscape of yin leadership, a kind of leadership that values spaciousness, nature, relationships, and ritual.

Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/88

Ever have a conversation you did not want to end? That's today's episode on the Daring to Rest Podcast with seven of the women who just led rest sessions at Rest Camp for Women. It's a conversation on rest and yoga nidra that's personal, professional, fun, and serious. You'll hear us talking about great rest books and films and a resty kind of TED Talk. We share our essential rest props. And there are many tender and sweet rest stories. If you're thinking about the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training for Women, this is a must-listen. You'll hear all seven women reflect on the ways the training impacted them. In a culture that values busyness over rest, this episode is for any woman who wants to put rest at the center of her life and wants to create a world of rested people.

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/87

If you are planning to join the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training for Women this year, now is the time to enroll. Early bird pricing ends very soon. You can learn more here and enroll.

Karen's back with a short "rest check in" on the topic of deep rest, yoga nidra and inner mothering. These unrested times are calling us not only to rest, and help others, but also to not abandon our inner selves. Abandoning ourselves is perhaps the number one way we get off the rested path. Inner mothering is key. Come hang out with Karen today as she shares on the podcast about how a practice like yoga nidra can help you mother yourself while lying down. This is the kind of rest revolution we want you to be a part of - lying down to feel rested AND "do the inner work!"

Karen speaks with Tracee Stanley, author of a new book – The Luminous Self - on how to find your luminous self that resides behind all sorrow, the power of our practices to create new patterns and beliefs, the importance of cultivating a relationship with nature and our true nature, and contemplating death and impermanence in a world that plays into these fears. Be sure to listen to the end. Tracee leads us through a profound short practice!

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/85

The struggle to feel rested is real. Is the Barbie movie the answer? After watching the film, I wanted to talk about it here at Daring to Rest because in some ways it felt like an instructive piece on creating a rested life. I also wanted to find a perspective beyond mine. So I invited Shalini Sinha, a gender professor and anti-racist specialist in Canada, onto the podcast today to speak about the film with me. Shalini brings a perspective on the Barbie movie that you probably have not heard yet.

Resources for this episode can be found here:

https://daringtorest.com/podcast/84

Today Dr. Ruby Gibson, founder of Freedom Lodge, and Kara Big Crow, executive director, join me on the Daring to Rest Podcast for a passionate discussion about healing intergenerational trauma.

You'll learn about:

• Pulling up trauma from the roots
• Historical trauma and why the cause for what you are experiencing may be generations removed
• The impact of boarding school & colonization on Native Americans
• Kara's journey to heal her intergenerational trauma through Dr. Ruby's somatic archaeology work
• An exercise to orient you to your body

​May this episode support you to feel more ease.

Resources for this episode can be found at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/83

Daring to Rest THE FUTURE IS RESTED t-shirt fundraiser to support Dr. Ruby's Freedom Lodge and their Historical Trauma Recovery Center is happening now until August 26, 2023. Click here to buy a rest t-shirt for a great cause.

In this rest note, Karen Brody talks about a surprising conversation on meditation that she recently had with a customs officer. With examples from her own life, she explores where we go when we meditate and how to live in the noise and the peace of life.

Resources at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/82