Rest is Not a Reward

Rest Is Not a Reward—The Violence of Waiting Until Collapse

We have been taught that rest is something to be earned. Something you get after you’ve broken your body for systems that never cared for it in the first place.

We are programmed to see rest as a reward, not a right. And this programming is so deep that even when we know better, we still perform collapse as our permission slip.

What happens when your body breaks and you still can’t rest?