Is There a Moment to Rest?

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"I think resting supports our grief," she says. "You won't be able to get to this message without experimenting with it, without having a moment of imagination ... slowing down and asking for the divine" The main thing that you can do is begin to heal yourself,. It's to begin to make space so that you are in a space where you can feel like you're connected to the divine... I would prefer that people not even talk about they want to rest and retweet all our memes. Go lay your ass down like that. Like use that moment to go be like my grandmother and close your eyes and sleep."

1. The Nap Ministry’s Nap Bishop shares small, concrete ways to bring rest into our own lives – especially when rest seems impossible.

2. Why so many of us feel like machines instead of humans – and the power of imagination as a spiritual practice to reconnect with our humanity and divinity.

3. Why grind culture – a collaboration of capitalism and white supremacy – wants to keep us exhausted, and how we can resist a culture of overwhelming busy-ness.

4. Why everything changes when we embrace ease as our birthright.

5. Creative ways to reimagine rest within our hectic daily lives.

About Tricia

Tricia Hersey is a Chicago native who has called Georgia home for the last 12 years. She has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance and reparations by curating spaces for the community to rest via community rest activations, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Her research interests include Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics, and cultural trauma. She is the author of the upcoming book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto which will be published in October 2022. You can learn more about her work and the book at thenapministry.com.

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