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The Rest of Us with Dana Tenille Weekes
The Rest of Us podcast explores rest as self-liberation for advocates and professionals who are losing themselves to the demands of work, loved ones, friends, strangers, and this dizzying world. The Rest of Us cultivates a community through honest reflections, conversations, and laughter for people willing to embrace rest differently.
The Rest of Us with Dana Tenille Weekes
Episode 15: Rest Requires Distinguishing Comfort, Peace, & Liberation
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In this thought-provoking follow-up to “A Love Letter - To Folks Afraid of Their Liberation,” host Dana Tenille Weekes challenges listeners to more closely examine the differences of living a life of comfort, peace, and liberation, and why mistaking one for the other may be holding us back from true rest.
She defines comfort, peace, and liberation as:
- Comfort: your familiar that avoids, ignores, or distorts truth
- Peace: your ability to recognize truth but not act on it
- Liberation: your willingness and readiness to protect and act on truth over and over again
Dana also reintroduces her powerful definition of rest, a liberating form of self-acceptance rooted in agency, belonging, and truth. In doing so, she challenges us to think about how we risk living passive lives (curated by others) when we do not embrace our truth (even when uncomfortable).
This episode of The Rest of Us explores comfort, peace, and liberation, and offers reflection questions or prompts for each, including:
- What aspects of your life are you afraid to say out loud that no longer serve you?
- What spaces or relationships ask you to abandon truth for the sake of peace or comfort?
- How often do you find it difficult to stand up for the truth, but easily maintain the lie?
This episode is an invitation to pause, confront the familiar, and start reclaiming the parts of ourselves we hide that keep us from our liberation.
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