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 Heart Remembers to Rest: Finding Your Way Back to Wholeness with Dr. Tej Khalsa
Leaders Devoted to Rest®
42 minutes
6 months ago
The Heart Remembers to Rest: Finding Your Way Back to Wholeness with Dr. Tej Khalsa
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 Dr. Tej Khalsa, a Consultant to the World Health Organization's Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health and the Founder and Medical Director of the GIM Mind Body Medicine Clinic. She shares her powerful insights on prescribing rest as medicine and how reconnecting with our authentic power transforms our relationship with work and ourselves. We explore how rest awakens us to truth and helps us reclaim sovereignty in spaces that don't always serve our highest good.
Drawing from her medical background and personal journey, Dr. Tej reveals how our understanding of the heart offers a profound metaphor for rest—explaining that even the physical heart begins everything from a place of rest and relaxation before contraction. Her path from institutional medicine to founding her own clinic offers a powerful testament to what becomes possible when we ask ourselves who we truly work for and honor our connection to authentic power.
In this episode, we explore:
- How the medical understanding of the heart provides a powerful metaphor for rest in our lives
- The revolutionary realization that "the day the heart begins to fail is the day it fails to remember to rest"
- Dr. Tej's personal experience with workplace toxicity and how rest helped her reclaim her sovereignty
- The transformative questions: "Who do you work for from your first breath to your last?" and "Who do you truly serve?"
- How rest connects us to our authentic power and helps us recognize when we're disconnected
- Moving from a place of inferiority/superiority to one of authentic truth and love
- The process of "giving it a rest" as a gentle pathway to deeper relaxation and presence
- Building a legacy based on love rather than merely financial success
Experience a guided rest practice focused on back support and stability. Discover how embracing rest can transform not just your approach to work but your relationship with yourself, revealing freedom and possibility when you operate from a place of authentic presence rather than exhaustion.
Connect with Dr. Tej Khalsa:
Website: www.mindbodymedicineclinic.com
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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.
