Octavia Raheem on the healing power of rest

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What are you doing this month to rest before summer comes to a close? Today we’re bringing back our 2022 conversation with Octavia Raheem. Octavia is a rest coach, yoga and meditation teacher, and author of the book Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change. Octavia sits down with Jessi to talk about the transformative power of rest and how best to incorporate it into our lives today. She shares her own healing journey as what she calls a “type a in recovery,” as well as techniques for practicing mindfulness and optimizing your work life balance. Join the Hello Monday community and continue the conversation with us: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter Join us this week and every week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page Join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:05.0	Hey, it's Jesse and it's August.
0:10.0	August is always that time in a year when things slow down a beat and a lot of us get a chance to rest.
0:18.0	And that is why this week we are pulling from the archives to share with you one of our most important episodes ever on this idea of rest.
0:27.0	We're bringing you Octavia Rahim. She's the author of Pa's Rest B.
0:32.0	Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change.
0:36.9	I hope this episode leaves you feeling as rejuvenated as it left me.
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0:58.4	LinkedIn Podcast Network.
1:01.6	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday.
1:08.0	This month marks two years for me.
1:15.0	Two years since I stopped going to a physical office every day,
1:19.0	and I remember how quickly it happened.
1:21.0	One day, I was complaining about banal stuff like a slow subway.
1:26.0	The next I felt painfully aware of just how fragile and precious life can be.
1:31.7	And in the time since, the very nature of the way that I have thought about work
1:35.7	has changed. We praise the hustle less. Instead, we talk about health and happiness.
1:43.0	So many of Hello Monday's listeners, you all.
1:46.4	You're looking for something that I'm looking for,
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