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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
In this thought-provoking follow-up to “A Love Letter to the Folks Afraid of Their Liberation,” host Dana Tenille Weekes challenges listeners to examine the differences between living a life of comfort, peace, and liberation—and why mistaking one for the other may be holding us back from true rest.
Dana reintroduces her powerful definition of rest as a liberating form of self-acceptance rooted in agency, belonging, and truth. She argues that without embracing truth (no matter how uncomfortable), we risk living a passive life curated by others instead of embodying who we truly are.
This episode is both a reflection and an invitation: to pause, confront the familiar, and start reclaiming the parts of ourselves we’ve been told to hide.
🧠 In This Episode:
- The difference between comfort, peace, and liberation—and why they aren’t interchangeable
- Why true rest requires actual liberation, not comfort or self-care aesthetics
- Dana’s personal definition of rest, and the role truth plays in sustaining it
- The risk of normalizing disconnection from self in the name of "success" or "professionalism"
- A reading and analysis of Revolutionary Dreams by Nikki Giovanni
- Reflection prompts that uncover how unrest shows up in your daily life
- The danger of glamorizing sacrifice and emotional suppression as virtue
💭 Reflection Prompts from Dana:
- What aspects of your life are you afraid to say out loud that are no longer serving you?
- Where do you find yourself staying to prove your worth, but deep down, you know you're stuck?
- 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?
🔥 Key Definitions Dana Unpacks:
- Comfort: The familiar that avoids, ignores, or distorts the truth
- Peace: The ability to recognize and hold truth without sacrificing others
- Liberation: The willingness and readiness to protect and act on truth over and over again
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