What If This Summer You Actually Rested?

Summer is here, beautiful soul, and I want to ask you something a little brave.

What if this is the summer you actually rested?

Not the summer you finally got organized. Not the summer you started the new routine. Not the summer you launched the side hustle or finished the basement or got the body back. Just the summer you let yourself rest.

I know. I felt that little flinch too. Stay with me.

Most of the women I work with cannot let themselves rest unless they have earned it. Rest is the reward at the end of the to-do list. Rest is what you do after you finish. Rest is what you take when you collapse.

But your nervous system does not know the difference between earned rest and given rest. Your body just needs the rest.

Here is what I am practising this summer. I call it rest counts.

Reading a chapter on the porch counts. Closing your eyes for ten minutes counts. Walking slowly instead of fast counts. Cancelling the thing counts. Sitting in the car for one extra minute before you go inside counts. Saying no to the picnic you do not want to go to counts. Putting your phone down at nine counts.

None of those are big. All of them are nervous-system-changing.

Your future self does not need you to grind through July. She needs you to soften.

Especially if you are a caregiver. Especially if you are the one everyone calls. Especially if your home runs on you. Especially if you have been doing pink space wrong for years by booking it and then giving it away to someone else's emergency. Yes I see you. I am right there with you.

This summer, try one tiny thing every day that your future self will thank you for. Not a goal. Not a habit stack. Just one small claim on your own life.

If this is the summer you want to actually rest, come be with us in the free Creating Space community on Facebook. It is a warm, no-pressure room full of women practising rest without earning it, cheering each other on one tiny claim at a time. Come in and say hello. We would love to have you. Join us at

🔗 facebook.com/groups/creatingspacewithcommunity

With so much love and gratitude,

Julie xo

P.S. What is one tiny rest you are claiming this week? Tell me and I will cheer you on.