How to Rest in a Time of Political Violence (Liberation vs. Resistance)

Описание: How do you rest when the world feels terrifying, unjust, and on fire?

In this episode of Just Rest: Burnout Tips for Everyday Radicals, host Nicole Havelka is joined by Dana Tenille Weekes — lawyer-lobbyist, creative and host of The Rest of Us — for an honest conversation about rest, burnout, and survival in a time of political violence.

We recorded this episode during a period of escalating state violence and protest in the United States. Rather than turning away from that reality, we ask a harder question: what kind of rest do activists, healers and people of conscience actually need right now and why does it matter?

This conversation explores the difference between rest as resistance and rest as liberation. Dana shares how rest that only fuels the fight can still keep toxic systems at the center of our lives. Liberation, on the other hand, reconnects us to our agency, our truth and our ability to build something new that honors our shared humanity.

In this episode, we talk about:
How burnout shows up even in “successful” activist and professional lives
Dana’s decision to take a full year to rest after burnout — and what that did to her nervous system
Why rest is not quitting, checking out nor self-indulgence
How rest can help us stay human while confronting fascism, violence and oppression
What it looks like to rest without centering productivity or grind culture

If you’re an activist, healer, faith leader organizer or simply someone trying to stay awake and alive in this moment — this episode is for you.
Rest is not a retreat from the world.

It’s how we build the capacity to change it.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction & Grounding
02:50 Burnout, breakdown, and choosing rest
08:49 Nervous system healing through rest
18:54 Rest in a time of political violence
41:33 Rest as liberation (not resistance)
49:19 Rest in organizational culture
57:40 Liberating Practices of Rest

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