This work enters a growing and important conversation about rest, one brought forward with clarity and urgency by Tricia Hersey and the Rest Is Resistance movement.That work has named the cultural and historical conditions that make rest difficult—especially for Black women.It has shown how exhaustion is not accidental, but produced, and how rest becomes an act of resistance within systems that depend on overextension.Here, I build on that awareness by turning inward. This work focuses on the