Nap Ministry's Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture

By Tricia Hersey and Paula Champagne

"This is about more than naps. Rest is anything that allows you to connect your body with your mind."

The Nap Ministry's Rest Deck is a rousing call to reclaim rest in everyday life. Delivered in a stunning package with gold accents and gorgeous artwork throughout, the deck combines restorative meditations with prescient wisdom from celebrated activist and teaching artist Tricia Hersey, a.k.a. "the Nap Bishop," and founder of the Nap Ministry.

Readers will discover 50 inspiring cards, each with an empowering affirmation and a simple practice to encourage rest, rejuvenation, and imagination. Rooted in social justice and imbued with spirituality, these cards offer short, accessible practices designed to uplift anyone suffering from the toxic effects of grind culture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Apr 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9781797215778

Tricia Hersey

Tricia Hersey is an artist, poet, theologian and community organiser. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organisation that examines rest as a form of resistance by curating sacred spaces for the community to rest via Collective Napping Experiences, immersive workshops, performance art installations and social media. Tricia is a global pioneer and originator of the movement to understand the liberating power of rest. She is the creator of the Rest is Resistance and Rest as Reparations frameworks. Her research interests include Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics and cultural trauma. Tricia is a Chicago native and currently lives in South Georgia. www.triciahersey.com instagram.com/thenapministry twitter.com/thenapministry facebook.com/thenapministry

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Cover: The Nap Ministry's Rest Deck, 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture by Tricia Hersey

Welcome to your DreamSpace, a space free from the oppression of grind culture where you can heal, invent, imagine, and find liberation.

The Rest Deck is a tool for your rest practice. The intention of these cards is for you to see them as quiet portals for your deprogramming from grind culture. Grind culture is a collaboration between capitalism and white supremacy. It views human bodies as a tool for production and pushes an unsustainable machine-level pace that disregards the inherent divinity in us all.

May the energy of these cards support your resistance to grind culture. May they act as a guide to help you go deeper into the portal of rest. May they be a metaphorical blanket to swaddle yourself in warmth. This deck is for the soft places we want to hold close. The places that capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and ableism have attempted to steal from us. This deck makes space and is an opportunity to tap back into the pauses necessary to reimagine what it feels like to be free from exhaustion. Wrap yourself in ease. Rest.

We are experiencing a slow paradigm shift. Our collective rest is leading the change. It has always been time for justice. It has always been time to rest. At this very moment, someone is deciding