We've been working with the teams at Live Free Counselling & Consulting Services and Winrose Oasis Counselling Services to bring you this #FSSGW23 installment!

Rest as an act of resistance

Permission to not always be in “survival mode”

• “Treating each other and ourselves with care isn’t a luxury, but an absolute necessity if we’re going to thrive. Resting isn’t an afterthought, but a basic part of being human.”

- Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance : A Manifesto

Rejecting the idea that we have to be “hustling” to be “worthy”, I am valuable because I am me, I exist

• “The Rest Is Resistance framework also does not believe in the toxic idea that we are resting to recharge and rejuvenate so we can be prepared to give more output to capitalism. What we have internalized as productivity has been informed by a capitalist, ableist, patriarchal system. Our drive and obsession to always be in a state of “productivity” leads us to the path of exhaustion, guilt, and shame. We falsely believe we are not doing enough and that we must always be guiding our lives toward more labor. The distinction that must be repeated as many times as necessary is this: We are not resting to be productive. We are resting simply because it is our divine right to do so.”

- Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Thank you to the Live Free Counselling & Consulting Services and Winrose Oasis Counselling Services Teams:

• Nicole Franklin, MSW RSW

• Chantal Gray, MSW RSW

• Soraya Douglas (social work placement student)

• Natalie Morrison (social work placement student)

• Abigail Amartey (social work placement student)

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