Welcome to Leaders Devoted to Rest®, a liberatory podcast that challenges the burnout-driven paradigm of success. This isn't just another wellness podcast - it's a movement to disrupt the exhaustion-equals-success narrative. It is a movement to get free.
Host Octavia Faith Ann Raheem guides ambitious leaders in discovering how rest isn't just a pause. Rest Is Sacred and it's a powerful catalyst for transformation. Each episode combines intimate conversations with leaders who've harnessed rest as fuel, followed by practical rest practices you can implement immediately. Whether you're at the edge of burnout or ready to bend time through intentional rest, this podcast offers a sacred space to explore how rest awakens possibility and power within you supporting you in reclaiming your brilliance.
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Welcome to Leaders Devoted to Rest®, a liberatory podcast that challenges the burnout-driven paradigm of success. This isn't just another wellness podcast - it's a movement to disrupt the exhaustion-equals-success narrative. It is a movement to get free.
Host Octavia Faith Ann Raheem guides ambitious leaders in discovering how rest isn't just a pause. Rest Is Sacred and it's a powerful catalyst for transformation. Each episode combines intimate conversations with leaders who've harnessed rest as fuel, followed by practical rest practices you can implement immediately. Whether you're at the edge of burnout or ready to bend time through intentional rest, this podcast offers a sacred space to explore how rest awakens possibility and power within you supporting you in reclaiming your brilliance.
The Healing Journey of Rest: From Burnout to Creative Liberation with Cristina Aguilar
Leaders Devoted to Rest®
1 hour 8 minutes
7 months ago
The Healing Journey of Rest: From Burnout to Creative Liberation with Cristina Aguilar
Recently released *New Book* Rest Is Sacred. Check out www.restissacred.com for order and purchase options. Rest, read, and restore!
In this episode I am talking with movement doula and rest advocate Cristina Renee Aguilar. She shares her transformative journey from burnout to embracing rest as a transformational practice. We explore how prioritizing rest has reawakened her creativity, ancestral connections, and authentic voice, fundamentally changing her approach to movement work and life.
Drawing from her personal rest practices and deep commitment to collective liberation, Cristina reveals how operating from a place of rest has become essential to her well-being, creativity, and ability to hold space for transitions and change. Her path from executive burnout to creative flourishing offers a powerful testament to what becomes possible when we center rest as a form of resistance and ancestral healing.
In this episode, we explore:
- How Cristina's "radical pause" in 2017 led her from burnout to ancestral reconnection in Mexico
- The revolutionary act of challenging cultural messages against rest ("no seas floja" - don't be lazy)
- How rest practices supported Cristina through pivotal historical moments
- Finding creative liberation through rest, leading to museum curation projects and book writing
- The power of "atomic habits" like daily meditation and journaling to sustain rest practices
- Creating boundaries around social media consumption to protect your nervous system
- How rest enables us to hold the "sacred pauses" between life transitions
Experience a guided rest practice focused on letting go and releasing tension throughout the body. Discover how embracing rest can transform not just your approach to movement work but your relationship with yourself and your ancestors, revealing joy and creative possibilities when you operate from a place of rest rather than exhaustion.
Connect with Cristina:
Website: www.aguilarstrategies.com
Instagram: instagram.com/borderlandsoul/
Facebook: facebook.com/crisrenee
Learn more about group rest coaching with Octavia Raheem at www.devotedtorest.com and apply to her rest based mastermind, Devoted to Rest® here.
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Leaders Devoted to Rest®
Welcome to Leaders Devoted to Rest®, a liberatory podcast that challenges the burnout-driven paradigm of success. This isn't just another wellness podcast - it's a movement to disrupt the exhaustion-equals-success narrative. It is a movement to get free.
Host Octavia Faith Ann Raheem guides ambitious leaders in discovering how rest isn't just a pause. Rest Is Sacred and it's a powerful catalyst for transformation. Each episode combines intimate conversations with leaders who've harnessed rest as fuel, followed by practical rest practices you can implement immediately. Whether you're at the edge of burnout or ready to bend time through intentional rest, this podcast offers a sacred space to explore how rest awakens possibility and power within you supporting you in reclaiming your brilliance.
