8 Important Types of Rest That You May Not Have Heard Of

A Life in Progress™ : Rebranding Middle Age

We all need rest, probably more than we’re getting. Expanding our view of rest beyond naps or Netflixing is helpful and life-giving! Perhaps what you most need right now is sensory rest or creative rest. Or maybe it’s lowering the bar and being kinder to yourself.

SHOW NOTES

This is a two-part conversation about rest – you can listen to part one here. In part two of the conversation I talk about the How of rest using my handcrafting a life vision worksheet (below) as a guide. NOT the how as in specific forms of rest (see the Rest Worksheets for that), but more how can we make space for rest or get creative and more flexible about rest.

I’m often surprised that most people I connect with have not heard of Dr. Saundra Dalton’s “7 Types of Rest.” In the worksheets (see below to get them for free), I add an 8th type – friendship with self – because befriending myself has been the greatest source of deep, abiding rest for me. Without this, no amount of other forms of rest can resolve the underlying sense of never being good enough, or the resulting striving and jumping through hoops to prove our worth, that so many people live with.

In this episode I share ideas to consider when exploring HOW you might make space for more rest in your life – whatever season you’re in, including the hardest of them. To get started, I share The 10 Commandments of Rest from REST, by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang.

LINKS/RESOURCES

• Find Krista on FB: A Life in Progress and also Rebranding Middle Age. Find her on IG.
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• Learn more about my Life Visioning Process.
• Learn how to work 1:1 with Krista – learn more here.
• Permission To Rest, Recalibrate and get resourced | A Life In Progress
• Get the Rest Worksheets here (free): 8 Types Of Rest: Free Worksheets | A Life In Progress
• Register below for the new Joy Workshop coming early March or learn more here. And you can also buy part one here. Free registration for the new workshop runs Feb 19-March 1.
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