Dear friends,
I’m coming to you from our kitchen table today. The house is finally quiet after Solomon’s seventh birthday party this past Saturday. The rain is pounding outside, our second storm of the fall. I can already see tiny green shoots pushing through the earth.
It’s been three years since my book Permission to Rest came out. For so much of my life, I believed rest was something you earned—a reward after working hard, something that happened far in the future.
But the land here is teaching me something different. The horses taking midday naps without earning them. The oaks dropping their leaves. Rest isn’t separate from living—it’s woven throughout everything.
In this 10-minute Field Note I explore—
How rest can be a rhythm, not a reward
What the horses teach me about natural pauses
A guided breathing practice we’ll do together
Finding rest in the small moments between tasks
With gratitude,
Ashley
💬 Group Check-In
Please join us in the comments if you feel called to share.
What would change if you gave yourself permission to rest right now, without earning it first?
