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Life Kit

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Life Kit

NPR

Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It's time to make room for more naps. Tricia Hersey, also known as the 'nap bishop' and author of the book "Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto," explains why relaxation and leisure are human rights — especially for communities of color. This episode originally published October 13, 2022.

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0:00.0

You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.

0:07.4

Well forgive me because I'm on this mic exhausted.

0:11.0

We all are though.

0:13.1

I think we all are residing and sometimes in a place of exhaustion and out.

0:17.7

That's what the culture is doing.

0:21.5

You're listening to NPR's LifeKit.

0:23.2

I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji and my guest today is Trisha Hersey.

0:28.4

So known as the NAP Bishop.

0:31.7

Trisha founded a project called the NAP Ministry back in 2016 and she uses performance art

0:37.6

and social media and photography.

0:39.8

She even has a hotline to promote the healing power of rest.

0:45.8

And now she has a book out called Rest Is Resistance.

0:49.0

And Trisha says she wants it to be a bomb for an exhausted world.

0:53.8

Look, I don't usually start my interviews talking about how tired I am.

0:58.4

But Trisha really encourages her overworked readers and her IG followers to acknowledge

1:04.0

that we're exhausted and that we have the right to rest.

1:09.5

So here goes.

1:11.3

I'm so tired.

1:13.4

I don't know how to say no.

1:14.6

I know you've heard this a million times.

1:17.6

I definitely am one of those people who operates from a scarcity mentality

1:22.6

that I was 100% raised with.

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