Rest is resistance

There is a practice older than any wellness trend, older than the internet, older than the word 'self-care' — and it requires nothing more than a handful of salt, some water, and your presence.

You are not broken, you are dysregulated. There is a difference. One implies something is wrong with you. The other says: your nervous system has been doing exactly what it was designed to do — protect you — and it has been doing it for so long that it has forgotten how to stop. For many BIPOC women, for women living in diaspora, for women who grew up in households where calm was a luxury — the nervous system learned early that vigilance was survival. Hypervigilance, overac