#542 – When It’s Hard to Rest
The Sister Circle Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What would it look like for you to prioritize peace over productivity in your life? With so many demands fighting for your attention, the ability to find rest in a busy world can feel nearly impossible. But my friend, I’m here to remind you that rest can be your portion, even in the busy seasons of your life.
In this episode, I tap into the importance of finding rest and placing your confidence in God. You don’t have to wait for life to settle down before you get still. You can make room for this eye-opening conversation.
Highlights from Today’s Episode
- Replacing busyness with being still
- Finding identity outside of accomplishments
- Placing confidence in God
Related Resources
- Check out my chat with Asheritah Ciuciu on rest for the weary.
- Listen to my previous talk on four ways to find rest.
- Pre-order The Full Circle Planner so that you can schedule time for rest.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Thanks for listening to the Sister Circle podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | My name is Crystal Evanshurst, and I'm your host. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. |
| 0:29.7 | Sometimes in life, y'all, you want to build confidence and the only way that you think |
| 0:33.0 | you can build confidence is if you have a life of hustle, that you get out there in these |
| 0:36.6 | streets and you do the most and that you are the most and that you accomplish the most. But here's what I know to be true. |
| 0:42.4 | Even if I'm struggling to execute it in my own life every day, here's what I believe to the core |
| 0:47.4 | of my being in order to be competent, in order to be accomplished, in order to have confidence, |
| 0:53.4 | you don't have to be a hustle, honey, |
| 0:56.1 | okay, that you can inculcate, rest into your life and rhythm into your life and still have |
| 1:02.8 | accomplishment, still be confident, still have competence. But I have to be honest and tell you, |
| 1:08.5 | I'm not the girl, because I'm the girl out here trying to do everything all the time. So I'm going to talk to you about something that's truth for me, |
| 1:15.2 | but also truth that I am in the process of learning. And my prayer is, my prayer is that as I |
| 1:22.9 | teach this to you today, that I will be learning myself. I truly do believe that God wants us to live |
| 1:31.7 | lives of rest. Productive lives, yes, but lives where we're not always hustled and not always burnt |
| 1:37.6 | out. Do I have that mastered? No. Am I working on it still in my 50s? Uh-huh. I am. So the good news is if I'm out here learning and growing and you're here watching me that we can learn and grow together. So y'all, let's talk about why rest feels wrong, how you can have confidence without the hustle and what we all can do to learn this together. All right, let's jump into this. When was the last time you were able to |
| 2:01.0 | rest without guilt? Now, see, if you're a hustle person, you might not even be able to think of |
| 2:04.6 | the last time that happened. If you're not a hustle person, you'll be like, I took a nap yesterday. |
| 2:08.6 | What's y'all's problem? There is a story that we are usually telling ourselves about accomplishment |
| 2:13.6 | and competence and rest. Some of us struggle with this idea of rest because for us, |
| 2:20.8 | when we rest, it borders on laziness. Like, you don't have to tell us twice to Netflix and chill |
| 2:24.5 | the whole weekend by our own selves. Some of us, you have to tell us to rest because if we took a nap, |
| 2:30.9 | we would feel like, oh my gosh, how am I going to be ready for Monday morning? We have a complicated relationship with this idea of operating with confidence and competence |
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