The Daring to Rest Podcast
1) What is Rest Coaching? A conversation with Daring to Rest Coaches
In this episode, we explore what is rest coaching and The Rested Path, a rest coaching framework created by Karen at Daring to Rest. Karen is joined by three certified Daring to Rest Coaches who share...Show More
2) How to Rest When You Don’t Know How: A Conversation with Ximena Vengoechea
What does it really take to feel rested in a world that rewards burnout? In this powerful conversation, Karen Brody talks with Ximena Vengoechea—author of Rest Easy and The Life Audit—about cultivatin...Show More
3) What If Slowing Down Makes Us Better Humans?
In this episode, Karen explores how urgency erodes compassion—drawing on the Good Samaritan Study, neuroscience, and a personal story that still sits with her. A woman-centered reflection on rest, gui...Show More
4) Yoga Nidra for Inner Mothering: A Gift of Rest for You
In the closing episode of The Rested Mother Series, Karen offers a gift of deep rest: a guided Yoga Nidra meditation centered on inner mothering—a powerful rest practice for anyone longing to feel mor...Show More
5) From Toxic Productivity to Radical Rest - with Jennifer Allen
In this powerful episode of The Rested Mother Series, Jennifer Allen shares her deeply personal journey from decades of toxic productivity and motherhood exhaustion to a life anchored in rest and self...Show More
6) Held By Rest: Special Needs Motherhood and Rising Through Heartbreak - with Chrissy McGuire
In this moving episode of The Rested Mother Series, Chrissy McGuire shares her journey as a single mother raising two children with special needs—and how rest became her anchor through childbirth trau...Show More
7) The Sacred Return: Resting My Way Back to Myself - with Isabelle Griffith
In this deeply reflective episode of The Rested Mother Series, Isabelle Griffith shares how rest became her lifeline after her sense of self collapsed under the weight of perfectionism, burnout, and s...Show More
8) How Rest Helped Me Mother Myself and My Daughter - with Jenny Weston-Newman
In this honest and soul-stirring episode of The Rested Mother Series, Jenny Weston-Newman shares her journey from chronic overachievement and deep exhaustion to a life anchored in rest. Raised to equa...Show More
9) Rewriting the Motherline: Choosing Rest for Myself and my Children - with Ali Schmitt
In this tender episode of The Rested Mother Series, Ali Schmitt shares how the exhaustion she witnessed in her own mother—and later experienced herself as a mother of three—led her to seek a new way o...Show More
10) Rest Pep Talk: The Cliff, Thelma & Louise, and The Call to Rest
When life pushes you to the edge, you don’t have to carry it all — you get to rest. In this short Rest Pep Talk, Karen Brody shares a personal story of choosing rest during a cliff’s edge moment, and ...Show More