The Daring to Rest Podcast

In this special Mother's Day episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast Karen honors the joy and complexity of motherhood and guides you through a gentle 20-minute 61-point rest practice, inviting you to release burdens and reconnect with your true nature. Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/118  

What if your exhaustion isn't a personal weakness, but a sign you're working in a system that quietly burns through its people - especially women? In this powerful conversation, Karen talks with Dr. Consuelo Grier, a mother and higher-ed leader whose life brought her to the edge of burnout and into the deeper truth of burn through : what happens when institutions use us up faster than we can resto...

In this episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, a rest note, Karen returns from her winter rest sabbatical to explore what it means to dare to rest in the Year of the Fire Horse - a time marked by speed, intensity, and rapid transformation. As truth and shadow surface quickly in our world, including recent revelations about spiritual and wellness leaders, many women are feeling both activated and e...

Pause with Karen for a gentle New Year's "rest audit"—exploring what to release, what to claim, and why softness might be your greatest strength. Settle in for rest reflections, deeply personal stories, and inspiration to start your year - or any season of your life - with more rest beside you.   Resources for this episode:  https://daringtorest.com/podcast/115  

Join host & Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody and a circle of extraordinary women from Sisterhood 10 of our Daring to Rest Facilitator Training as they reflect on their journeys as rest leaders, yoga nidra facilitators, and students of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training. You'll hear honest stories of stepping into rest leadership, navigating burnout, and breaking generational cycles of overw...

Discover how human design can help you understand your unique energy, make more rested decisions, and find a more restful, authentic way of living. In this episode, one of the world's leading experts in human design Erin Claire Jones shares practical insights into different energy types, the importance of rest, and how understanding your design can transform your work, relationships, and personal...

What if rest is exactly what grief needs? In this short rest pep talk, Karen shares a personal story of loss and explores how rest becomes a lifeline—especially when the world expects us to keep going. If you're holding personal or collective grief, this one's for you.   Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/112  

In this episode, we explore what is rest coaching and The Rested Path, a rest coaching framework created by Karen at Daring to Rest. Karen is joined by three certified Daring to Rest Coaches who share their experiences inside the training, how it transformed their relationship with rest, and what it means to guide others through The Rested Path. If you've been curious about becoming a rest coach,...

What does it really take to feel rested in a world that rewards burnout? In this powerful conversation, Karen Brody talks with Ximena Vengoechea—author of Rest Easy and The Life Audit —about cultivating a rest ethic, the barriers that keep us from true rest, and the liberating power of both active and passive rest. Together, they explore how rest can be deeply personal, radically political, and pr...

In this episode, Karen explores how urgency erodes compassion—drawing on the Good Samaritan Study, neuroscience, and a personal story that still sits with her. A woman-centered reflection on rest, guilt, and reclaiming our humanity through pause.   Show notes: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/109

In the closing episode of The Rested Mother Series , Karen offers a gift of deep rest: a guided Yoga Nidra meditation centered on inner mothering—a powerful rest practice for anyone longing to feel more held, rooted, and resilient. Before the meditation, Karen reflects on why connecting with our inner mother is essential on the path to becoming a rested woman. Whether you were well mothered or not...

In this powerful episode of The Rested Mother Series , Jennifer Allen shares her deeply personal journey from decades of toxic productivity and motherhood exhaustion to a life anchored in rest and self-trust. For years, Jen overrode the wisdom of her body and the whispers of her soul—until her nervous system and spirit could no longer sustain the push. Contracting Long Covid was the final push to...

In this moving episode of The Rested Mother Series , Chrissy McGuire shares her journey as a single mother raising two children with special needs—and how rest became her anchor through childbirth trauma, caregiving, and profound heartbreak. From a high-achieving childhood shaped by hustle culture to the moment her first child was born unresponsive, Chrissy takes us through the raw, real moments t...

In this deeply reflective episode of The Rested Mother Series , Isabelle Griffith shares how rest became her lifeline after her sense of self collapsed under the weight of perfectionism, burnout, and self-doubt. What began as moments of peace on the yoga mat eventually led her to the transformational practice of yoga nidra—and a profound reconnection with her inner world. Through rest, Isabelle no...

In this honest and soul-stirring episode of The Rested Mother Series , Jenny Weston shares her journey from chronic overachievement and deep exhaustion to a life anchored in rest. Raised to equate love with doing, and later navigating motherhood, separation, and financial challenge, Jenny reached a breaking point that led her to the healing power of yoga nidra. What began as a tool for survival be...

In this tender episode of The Rested Mother Series , Ali Schmitt shares how the exhaustion she witnessed in her own mother—and later experienced herself as a mother of three—led her to seek a new way of being. Through yoga nidra, Ali began to break the generational cycle of depletion, reconnecting with her intuition and discovering how rest could nourish her from the inside out. Her story is a pow...

When life pushes you to the edge, you don't have to carry it all — you get to rest. In this short Rest Pep Talk, Karen Brody shares a personal story of choosing rest during a cliff's edge moment, and inspiration from the film Thelma & Louise .   Resources for this episode: daringtorest.com/podcast/102    

In this tender rest pep talk, Karen shares a deeply personal reflection on grief, caregiving, and the radical power of rest. If you've been carrying too much, doing too much, or doubting your worth because you're not "doing enough"… this episode is for you.   Resources for this episode: daringtorest.com/podcast/101    

Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast we are celebrating our 100th episode. 🎙️🎉  We're talking about the power of creating a rest legacy. This episode is in memory of Jaimee Roncone, one of the first Daring to Rest Facilitators. Jaimee showed everyone she touched what a rest legacy looks like - even as she was dying.  In this episode I have gathered a few of the OG Daring to Rest Facilitators who k...

Octavia Raheem is back on the Daring to Rest Podcast talking about the power of rest, writing, and her new book,  Rest is Sacred .  Octavia is a wife, mother, three time author, rest coach, and restorative + yoga nidra teacher - a true luminary in the areas of rest, restorative arts, wellness, and yoga. Her devotion to rest is practical, poetic, and inspirational. Speaking with Octavia is always s...

Karen's on her own this episode talking about why 40 days of rest matters and answering your questions on why we resist rest, the best time to practice yoga nidra for good sleep, how to let grief and guilt go, and navigating an unrested mother while you're trying to be rested.   Resources for this episode are here: daringtorest.com/podcast/98

Karen speaks with six newly certified Daring to Rest Facilitators from Sisterhood 9 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training who recently led rest sessions at our annual online Rest Camp for Women. Hear their stories and why they are passionate about being rest leaders in our world today. This is a conversation for anyone who believes in the power of rest, wants to dare to rest, and women curiou...

On today's episode Dr. Kamilah Majied joins me to discuss joy and justice in the context of black wisdom and Buddhist teachings. We talk about "entering the palace of oneself," the roots of black music and how it embodies what the Buddha talks about, the purpose of freedom, and Kamilah shares how she defines joy. Kamilah is a psychotherapist, social work educator, researcher, activist and consulta...

What if changing our relationship with grind culture requires imagining a new story? My guest today on the Daring to Rest Podcast thinks so. In the spring of 2014, I had the pleasure of speaking about daring to rest and then introducing the main speaker Brigid Schulte, who had just written her first book, Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time . The organizers of this ga...

Today I am getting personal with you, talking about how I run my rest business and a few Daring to Rest origin stories to understand how I even had the idea over fifteen years ago to start a business focused on rest. As some of you know, I had a long history of panic attacks. At times I literally felt like a hostage in my home, unable to even open the door without the panic attacks starting again....