Gemma Speck

So the moment you slow down, like...

There's a lot that's going to come with it.

There's a lot of memories, worst case scenarios, this vague sense of dread that's going to crop up.

And that is the guilt.

That is literally the guilt that we are explaining right now.

And if every time you experience guilt when you rest, you're going to learn through association, purely through association, that this is a dangerous thing.

And so without even realizing through this associative learning, you're going to avoid it even more.

Okay, we're going to take a short break here.

But after this short break, we're going to explore the real dangers of this narrative and how we can start to unlearn these toxic, harmful thoughts about rest that we have been sold and we have been told.

So stay with us.

I kind of feel the need to remind us at this point that rest is literally a biological requirement, the same way that food and water is a biological requirement.

You cannot deprive yourself of that.

You can push through for a while.

You can negotiate your way out of needing rest and needing recovery.

You cannot outrun it.

It's just not possible.

Sleep is like one of the clearest examples we have of this.

It's so measurable.

So researchers often focus on it as a way of measuring rest.

Obviously, that's not the only way to rest.