By Anastasiya Goers
By contributor Samantha Nolan-Smith
Last week a client and I were discussing her decision to resign from her job and take some time to rest before deciding on her next career move. When I asked how she felt about the decision, she was very positive, commenting ‘to rest is delightful’.
It was a description I had never used myself in relation to resting.
Sure I thought of rest as refreshing, restorative and necessary. But delightful? This was not something that had ever occurred to me.
My life had not led me to come to see rest as a thing of beauty or delight.
Why? Quite simply, I had never valued it as much as I valued activity. Certainly I viewed it as important, but as a reward for performance; as something which came after, not prior to... More...
