Hi, and welcome to the your good news podcast. With me your host, Katherine Getty. It's easy to believe the news around us that the world is dark and the future is the same. But what if we chose something different? What if we chose to find the good news each day? This podcast is a collection of interviews with friends, mentors, colleagues on their good news and some solo episodes on inspiration I find from business, to health to politics, and kind of everything in between. It's my hope you leave with a boost and find your good news. Welcome back to another episode of The your good news podcast. It's me, your host, Katherine Getty. As I start every episode, I want to begin with a bit of good news. So I have been traveling over the last I guess, two months, I've been to New York City, Omaha, Lincoln, Austin Clay Center, Baltimore. And after a time, when that wasn't always an option, the ability to travel, you know, I love zipping through an airport or finding a new friend at the gate. Yes, I know, you're probably not shocked by that being delayed or finding a new spot to grab to II like all these little things I've been so grateful for, and I'm grateful to get to outside of DC and then I'm grateful to come back and be home. And I think it's inspiring to be able to travel. And, you know, I think as I think about the heart of the episode, it's funny that I bring up how grateful I am to be traveling again. But I also hold the emotion of being really tired physically, mentally, it takes it takes a lot out of you. And so my two ideas today are related to rest bumper poem, one that rest doesn't mean in action, and two, that rest can be and you can hold that feeling the same way you hold gratitude for a busier season. So let's unpack those notions a bit more. One, being that rest doesn't mean an action. Rather, I think it's an active choice to heal, to rest, to grow even more. And I, I say all these things. And if I'm being really honest, I struggle often with the idea of rest of arrestee during a workout or a rest day and sleeping in a little bit more. You know, this episode comes like I said after a lot of travel, which I am beyond grateful for. But I also feel a tad burnt out. And I record this days before you hear it. If you're listening in mid May, and I hate initially planned to be an air quoting now super productive today with the podcasts prepping Instagram content, the website recording, sketching out guests interviews, the list goes on. It's making me a little anxious even just to say. But I knew in my heart this morning when I woke up that I just needed some rest. I've been doing a lot. And I'm so happy to see so many friends and family and to be able to be so active. But I really just need a day where my mind isn't spinning. And I'm not feeling like I'm constantly on the go. You know, the phrase a lazy Sunday, sometimes I'm like, if you don't do anything that's being lazy, and I just, I think rest doesn't mean an action. Like I said, I think it's a choice to heal and to rest and to grow. So how does that resonate with you? Do you have a similar feeling about rest kind of fighting it like I have, you know, I wonder where along the lines we taught ourselves or we accepted that rest was an action because when I get done recording this, and I choose to rest and rest my mind and not be thinking about all the things that could be doing. But I'm choosing one thing to focus on and choosing one thing to give my body that time to heal and to grow. And that's just what I'm going to do today. So wonder your thoughts on that. And then kind of my second idea, and I started the episode, discussing this a little bit is that rest can be held and wanting rest can be in the same. You can hold the same emotion as being really excited to go to something or really wondering what's going to happen or you know, not anxiously spinning but kind of having those jitters and being excited to go to something again and you can both want to do something and want rice at the same time and I just wish we had the ability to kind of think about that both
emotions can be held on one isn't good and one is it bad. And I think as the world finds its new rhythm, the ability to travel and to gather is returning even more rapidly. We can feel really grateful for that grateful for the journey that we've all been on in the last two years and being able to gather and celebrate. But also thinking we need to take time because of this new rhythm to rest, to take those minutes to pause. And maybe you do that listening to a podcast or taking a nap or cooking something or creating something in a garden. Whatever it is for you find your ass. And so I just wonder, can we be burned out and grateful? And I think yes, that's the quick message from me today. And next week, I will be back with another amazing interview another guest who just shares they're good in this world. And so what stands out to you when you think about rest? Are you anxious, excited, peacefully longing. Ponder that today. Today is all about listening to that need for rest and realizing that rest is a part of the process. Not instead of as well as gratitude for an activity can be in tandem with the need for us. So thank you so much for listening to today's episode of The your good news podcast. If you liked it, go ahead and subscribe. So each Thursday you will find a new episode where you listen to podcasts. May that be Apple Music, Spotify, and please leave a review these little actions means so much to me. Help the podcast grow and follow me on Instagram. My handle is at Katherine Getty for more content on this topic. And join us next week for another episode of The your good news podcast.