Hello and welcome to the Karma You podcast.

This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge.

I'm a coach, a hypnototherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New

Girl.

And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most

confident self.

Hello, hello, hello, welcome and thank you so much for joining me

on the Karma You podcast today. Hope you're doing well, wherever you are and whatever you're doing.

I want to let you know quickly before we start talking about rest and why it might be resisting rest

that I've got a free resource for anxiety-free public speaking. It's a free

checklist sharing simple, quick things that you can do to feel calmer and more confident when

speaking in public, whether that is speaking on Zoom, whether that's speaking in front of an

audience, speaking at a wedding, in social situations, doing presentations at work, whatever it may be,

head over to karma-hyphenu.com forward slash speaking to download that free checklist and feel

more calm and confident today. So in a cartoon by Gemma Coral, the character muses, I need to rest. I also need to get work done. I shall compromise

by doing neither and then beating myself up about it. I wonder if you can relate to this.

And if you recognise this pattern in yourself, I know that I do. I remember on more than one occasion

being completely exhausted in the first few months of pregnancy. And I would clamber into bed,

bone tired, intent on having a nap. And mindlessly, I'd pull out my laptop and just think to myself, right,

I'm going to check a few emails. And before I knew it, two hours had passed. And my emails may have

been answered, but the nap window had firmly closed. And it's kind of like a type of rest

procrastination that shows that in that moment, I am not

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