Rest is Political and We Need It Now - with Claire Garin
The Daring to Rest Podcast · Claire Garin
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Show Notes
Ever feel like for as long as you can remember you've been tired?
That's Claire Garin's story - tired her whole adult life. Three years ago, she completely changed her life from work in the mental health field that she thought was the root of her exhaustion.
After experiencing a serious earthquake in Nepal, she returned home to France and quit her job, left her boyfriend, and became nomadic. She also then became an entrepreneur very quickly in the energy and dance-related fields.
But, as she shares in today's episode on the Daring to Rest podcast, even though she loved what she was doing "whenever I told my story I felt like an impostor. I was so exhausted all the time. I was not able to enjoy my life because I was so tired."
It seemed crazy to be burnout now that she had the work she loved. "I had it all and I was still the same – exhausted," Claire says.
With no idea how to rest, even when she took time off, Claire prayed for support. That's when she found Daring to Rest.
"I relaxed in ways I didn't know was possible. It is like yoga nidra taught my nervous system what I had forgot."
Claire's still a work in progress when it comes to rest. (We all are!).
What she knows in her bones today is that she must share this rest medicine with others. Claire's now completing her Daring to Rest facilitator certification and working on a project on Sacred Activism. The first module? Rest.
"Rest is a necessity for the collective causes that requires our attention and commitment. Rest is political and we need it now."