How to Rest When You Don’t Know How: A Conversation with Ximena Vengoechea
Release Date: 06/21/2025
Daring to Rest in the Year of the Fire Horse
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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 exhausted. Karen asks: In a galloping year like this, how do we stay grounded and keep from burning out? Show Notes mentioned: Now enrolling: Rested Woman. Doors close March 22. Details:
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A Rest Audit for the New Year: 6 Personal Rest Reflections - and why soft is the new strong
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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:
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Leadership, Liberation & the Power of Rest - with Sisterhood 10 Daring to Rest Facilitators
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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 overwork and self-denial. Stay to the end for participants’ favorite rest words! This episode is ideal for any women craving inspiration, rest, and a powerful reminder that rest is a radical,...
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How to Choose the Most Rested Path Using Human Design - with With Erin Claire Jones
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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 growth. Show notes for this episode can be found here:
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When Grief Hits, Productivity Culture Doesn’t Know What to Do With Us
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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:
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What is Rest Coaching? A conversation with Daring to Rest Coaches
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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, or simply want to understand the deeper layers of rest as a healing and transformational path, this conversation offers clarity, insight, and inspiration. Resources for this episode can be...
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How to Rest When You Don’t Know How: A Conversation with Ximena Vengoechea
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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 profoundly healing. Resources for this episode can be found here:
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What If Slowing Down Makes Us Better Humans?
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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:
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Yoga Nidra for Inner Mothering: A Gift of Rest for You
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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, inner mothering allows you to offer yourself the unconditional love, care, and compassion you may have missed—and to rest from a place of wholeness. This practice is for all women—mothers and...
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From Toxic Productivity to Radical Rest - with Jennifer Allen
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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 make rest nonnegotiable. Through yoga nidra and reconnecting with the rhythms of nature, she began to lay down her armor, pick up her pillow and blanket, and reimagine what it means to live, parent,...
info_outlineWhat 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 profoundly healing.
Resources for this episode can be found here: daringtorest.com/podcast/110