The Reason you Need to Rest

So often as high-achieving women we hear people around us tell us how inspiring, amazing, and hard-working we are. Whether you hear it from family or close friends, a lot of the times we struggle to believe it. We do so much and to others it's inspiring to see, but we constantly feel like we are not doing enough or we don't have enough.

How to Start Believing that you Deserve to Rest

Although we are already a couple of days in to 2022 it is not too late to close out 2021 affirming yourself that you have done enough. When our minds are constantly ON or constantly on CREATE it is hard to turn off the belief that we are not enough.

Allow yourself to take a moment to reflect on 2021 and everything you did. Not just every thing you accomplished, but also how you pushed through. As you do that repeat these affirmations: "I did enough"

"I did my best with what I had available to me".

As you move in to 2022, schedule more time for you to rest.

Why you Need to Shift Your Perspective on Rest

One of my mentors recently reminding me that it is a blessing to have the ability to create, have the abundance of creativity, and to go after what you want.

However when we only focus on creating we tend to feel undeserving of resting.So instead of seeing your learned behavior of being an over achiever, and making yourself feel like you are not doing enough allow yourself to be grateful for this ability.

When you are in a state of gratitude you shift your perspective and open yourself up to abundance. Acknowledge this ability as a blessing and make time for your rest. Your creativity does not have to consume you instead allow it to ever flow through you.

Your creativity is not going anywhere, the ideas you have will come back because they come from within you. You are the creative, and the creative deserves to rest.

Why is Rest Important?

Often we hear that we should rest because we will be able to work harder, but your rest does not have to be productive nor does it have to help you work and create more.

Our rest does not need to be centered around productivity. We rest because our rest is political and we deserve it, our ancestors deserve it, and future generations deserve it. Our rest is bigger than us.

Another one of my mentors recently reminded me that the same way we can call on our ancestors resistance and their strength we can also call on their peace.

Before colonization our ancestors also had peace, they rested, and they did not just live to produce. Allow yourself to also call on your ancestors peace, because it lives within you just as much as their resistance does.

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Affirmations to repeat:

I deserve to rest.

I am the creative and the creative deserves to rest.

I refuse to center my rest around productivity.

My rest is political.

I am enough, I am doing enough, I have enough - (From one of my Recocherxs)

Want to put this in to practice?

For the month of January we are offering a handful of free Celebrate and Vision Empowerment sessions with our CEO, Maria Paula to help you close out 2021. This session will support you in:

• Reflecting on the year and the challenges you have overcome

• Gaining a clear vision of the changes you want to make for 2022

• Feeling empowered in your journey and your story

Apply Here

We are offering a few FREE sessions to those who apply by 01/21.