LZ Granderson: Can you give us not just the liberation component for our own selves, but as this form of activism? LZ: To shift the paradigm and to go up against violent systems that we're trying to disrupt against is a very scary proposition. LZ: There's still moments that you can tap into. The end is just to begin. It won't be easy. Not probably everyone will get this. You know, there is always hope. If you're alive, I learned this when I was doing pastoral care, studying in seminary, training as a chaplain,. where there is life, there is hope. Where there is...where there is breath, there
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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