Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures

Evie Muir's Radical Rest is a blueprint for change and a salve for the soul, offering a journey of regeneration that reimagines what a world of true rest would look like. It explores the core emotions associated with burnout and speaks with those disproportionately impacted by it, emphasizing that a world of radical rest must exist in community with one another, with our bodies, and with the natural world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 18 July 2024
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited

We are exhausted, overwhelmed by anxiety, overworked, and under-resourced. The notion that self-care, yoga retreats, or occasional massages can alleviate this bone-numbing fatigue is insufficient when it reflects a deeply unhealthy society. We cannot simply 'fix ourselves' within a system that demands and extracts so much from us. What is required is a complete reimagining that prioritizes a thriving life of abundance.

Through a Black Feminist, abolitionist, and nature-allied lens, Evie Muir guides us on a journey of regeneration that reimagines what a world of true rest, radical rest, would entail. As they seek guidance from activists and cultural influences past and present, Evie explores the core emotions associated with burnout, moving from rage, grief, and anxiety to the hope, joy, and abundance that deep change can bring.

Along the way, Evie engages with Black, queer, disabled activists of color who have been disproportionately impacted by burnout and are actively working in resistance. What becomes evident through these lived experiences is that a world of radical rest must exist in community, interconnected with one another, our bodies, and the natural world.

Radical Rest is a bold, vulnerable, and deeply honest blueprint for change and a balm for the soul. Step into this book and unlock the door to a hopeful and healed future.

Weight: 424g
Dimension: 169 x 224 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783967650