Episodes
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Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs: Finding Rest in Unrested Times
When life feels beyond words, sometimes "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" says it all. In this short rest note on the Daring to Rest Podcast, founder Karen Brody shares how a little humor helps her navigate the heartbreak and absurdity of the news, caregiving, and everyday life. Join Karen for a...
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Aging Restfully - a rest note with Karen Brody
What does it mean to age restfully? Karen shares her experiences with cosmetic treatments, hair extensions, gray hair, and the invisibility women can feel as they grow older. This candid, nonjudgmental episode explores how we can listen to our bodies and make the choices that help us feel most at...
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View from The Rested Path - Episode 2
In this conversation, episode 2 of our 3-part series View from The Rested Path, Karen sits in circle with three Rested Path Guides - Tonya Clark, Danielle Dominick, and Lisa Trank – as we put on our rest lens and talk about education and leadership, forgiveness and rest during Elul just before…
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What If Your Exhaustion Didn't Begin With You?
What if some of your exhaustion didn't begin with you? In this episode, Karen explores inherited exhaustion, the patterns of overdoing, overgiving, striving, and constant movement that can be passed down through generations. Through a personal story about her mother and grandmother, she asks what...
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View from The Rested Path - Episode 1 | 3-Part Series
In the first episode of View From The Rested Path, a new three-part monthly series, Karen sits down with Rested Path Guides Malica Ahmed, Charmaine Renée , and Terri Scherer to explore creativity, productivity, softness, power, and popular culture through the lens of rest. Together, they ask what...
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The Math of a Rested Life
In this episode, Karen explores the math of creating a rested life and offers a gentle rest invitation to recognize the tone of rest in your day and return to it, again and again. Show notes can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/119
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A Gift of Rest for Mothers
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:...
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Why Every Woman Needs to Know About Burn Through – A Discussion with Dr. Consuelo Grier
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…
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Daring to Rest in the Year of the Fire Horse
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…
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A Rest Audit for the New Year: 6 Personal Rest Reflections - and why soft is the new strong
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Leadership, Liberation & the Power of Rest - with Sisterhood 10 Daring to Rest Facilitators
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...
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How to Choose the Most Rested Path Using Human Design - with With Erin Claire Jones
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...
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When Grief Hits, Productivity Culture Doesn't Know What to Do With Us
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...
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What is Rest Coaching? A conversation with Daring to Rest Coaches
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...
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How to Rest When You Don't Know How: A Conversation with Ximena Vengoechea
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...
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What If Slowing Down Makes Us Better Humans?
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
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Yoga Nidra for Inner Mothering: A Gift of Rest for You
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...
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From Toxic Productivity to Radical Rest - with Jennifer Allen
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...
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Held By Rest: Special Needs Motherhood and Rising Through Heartbreak - with Chrissy McGuire
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...
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The Sacred Return: Resting My Way Back to Myself - with Isabelle Griffith
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...
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How Rest Helped Me Mother Myself and My Daughter - with Jenny Weston
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…
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Rewriting the Motherline: Choosing Rest for Myself and my Children - with Ali Schmitt
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...
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Rest Pep Talk: The Cliff, Thelma & Louise, and The Call to Rest
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
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Rest Pep Talk: When You Rest, the World Doesn't Crumble
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:...
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The Power of Creating a Rest Legacy - Our 100th Episode!
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…
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Sacred Rest with Octavia Raheem
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...
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Why 40 Days of Rest Matter + Karen Answers Your Rest Questions
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...
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Rest Leadership: Meet Sisterhood 9 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training
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…
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Joy and Justice with Dr. Kamilah Majied
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...
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Reimagining the Landscape of Work with Brigid Schulte
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...
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How I Run My Rest Business with Karen Brody - Ep3 of Transform Your Life and Wellness Business Series
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...
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Becoming a Rest Rockstar with Karen Perro - Ep 2 of the Transform Your Life and Wellness Business Series
Certified Daring to Rest Facilitator Karen Perro is becoming a "Rest Rockstar" in Nova Scotia, offering transformational rest experiences that combine the power of rest with her love of nature and her Celtic roots. Her Healing Hammock experience literally sells out within hours. On today's second...
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Transform Your Life and Your Wellness Business - The Rooted In Rest Series, Ep 1 with Florence Güneri
This episode is the first of a special series called Transform Your Life and Your Wellness Business - The Rooted In Rest Series. Today's guest is Florence Güneri, a Daring to Rest Facilitator in Australia who took our facilitator training just as the pandemic began. As a young woman growing up...
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Writing on Empty and Finding Your Voice - with Natalie Goldberg
This episode is a conversation with Natalie Goldberg on her writer's block during Covid and how she lost and found her voice when she stopped everything. Natalie's new book is Writing on Empty. As a writing teacher and author of the bestselling book Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer...
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Women: Let's Not Keep Our Mouths Shut Anymore - a rest note with Karen Brody
Host Karen Brody reads her rest note "Women: Let's Not Keep Our Mouths Shut Anymore" and talks about the topics of rest, women's voices, and writing. Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/90
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Curing & Healing When You've Tried Everything - with Lissa Rankin
Have you ever had a health challenge and felt like you tried everything to heal yet you still did not find answers? Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast I am excited to introduce you to Lissa Rankin, a mind-body medicine physician, and the author of Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest to Unravel the...
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Yin Leadership - with Nina Simons
Nina Simons is a women's leadership pioneer and co-founder of Bioneers. She is the author of the book, Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership. In this episode, Karen talks with Nina about the landscape of yin leadership, a kind of leadership that values spaciousness,...
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A Conversation on Rest and Yoga Nidra with Sisterhood 8 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training
Ever have a conversation you did not want to end? That's today's episode on the Daring to Rest Podcast with seven of the women who just led rest sessions at Rest Camp for Women. It's a conversation on rest and yoga nidra that's personal, professional, fun, and serious. You'll hear us talking…
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Deep Rest, Yoga Nidra and Inner Mothering with Karen Brody
Karen's back with a short "rest check in" on the topic of deep rest, yoga nidra and inner mothering. These unrested times are calling us not only to rest, and help others, but also to not abandon our inner selves. Abandoning ourselves is perhaps the number one way we get off the rested path.…
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Embracing Your Most Luminous Self with Tracee Stanley
Karen speaks with Tracee Stanley, author of a new book – The Luminous Self - on how to find your luminous self that resides behind all sorrow, the power of our practices to create new patterns and beliefs, the importance of cultivating a relationship with nature and our true nature, and...
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The Barbie Movie and Creating a Fair, Equitable and Rested World with Shalini Sinha
The struggle to feel rested is real. Is the Barbie movie the answer? After watching the film, I wanted to talk about it here at Daring to Rest because in some ways it felt like an instructive piece on creating a rested life. I also wanted to find a perspective beyond mine. So I invited Shalini...
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Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. Ruby Gibson and Kara Big Crow
Today Dr. Ruby Gibson, founder of Freedom Lodge, and Kara Big Crow, executive director, join me on the Daring to Rest Podcast for a passionate discussion about healing intergenerational trauma. You'll learn about: Pulling up trauma from the roots Historical trauma and why the cause for what you…
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How to Live Your Life with the Noise and the Peace
In this rest note, Karen Brody talks about a surprising conversation on meditation that she recently had with a customs officer. With examples from her own life, she explores where we go when we meditate and how to live in the noise and the peace of life. Resources at:...
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How to Have an Orgasmic (& Restful!) Birth and Life with Debra Pascali Bonaro
Doula trainer, childbirth educator, and filmmaker, Debra Pascali Bonaro, joins Karen to discuss claiming your power and pleasure in childbirth and life; advice on turning pain into purpose; the importance of sex education; why it's crazy to put women on their backs to give birth; and what is...
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Being Your Own Kind of Leader: On Women, Leadership, Rest, and Staying Awake
In this rest note on leadership, Karen Brody takes on the topics of women, leadership, rest and staying awake in a world that wants us asleep to what's keeping us tired. She explores the political resignations in 2023 of Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon as examples of women leaders showing us…
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Mother-Daughter Rest Bonding
Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast a mother and daughter who have been in the Daring to Rest community join Karen to share their rest stories. You'll learn about their mother-daughter rest bond, and how rest has impacted their lives. Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/79
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Netflix is Messing with Our Sleep: A Short Rest Rant with Karen Brody
It's obvious, even without the statistics, that there are a lot of exhausted people. That's why a 2017 tweet by Netflix raised Karen's rest feathers. Listen to her rest rant on capitalism's investment in our fatigue and how we can't stop over-eating on the most seductive "chocolate cake" of these...
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Anti-Hustle Leadership in Work and Life - with Jadah Sellner
I am thrilled to have Jadah Sellner on today's podcast, author of a new women's leadership book called She Builds. So many books on business are not written by women and there are few diverse voices. Jadah's mission is to change this and to offer us an anti-hustle way to grow our business and...
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Part Two - Teaching Rest Is My Radical Next Step: Meet Daring to Rest Facilitators in Sisterhood 7
It's my delight to introduce you to three women in this year's Daring to Rest Facilitator Certification Training, and the teacher trainer who mentored them. All four women join me on today's episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast. This is part two of a series called, "Teaching Rest is My Radical...
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Rest is Love: A Short Rest Note
All we want is to love and be loved. In this 15-minute episode, Karen reads her email to the Daring to Rest community on why rest is love and shares additional thoughts on oxytocin - the hormone of love - and ways we can receive and give more love. Resources for this episode can be found here:...
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