🛌 Session 24: Rest as Resistance, Rest as Repair

🌿 Transformative Education for Neurodivergent Liberation

I’ve been away from these two for five days and I miss them more than I can say. There’s something about the quiet companionship of animals that makes everything feel a little more bearable. Their heads tucked together like this? That’s home.

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📌 If you’re just joining us, I recommend reading [Session 1 – Why I’m Leading This Workshop (My Positionality)] for shared agreements and to understand how this space is held.

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We are almost at the end.

Next session will be our last (for now), but before we close this arc, I want to pause. To breathe. To be real with you.

Today, as you read this, I’m probably on a plane — flying home from Baltimore. I just spoke at a conference on ethical AI in healthcare policy. I shared about consent-based design, neurodivergent-informed systems, and the need for relational ethics in technology. It was powerful. It was also exhausting.

I showed up without masking. I spoke with clarity and integrity. And now, I’m depleted in that deep, full-body way that only comes after doing something brave and right.

So this isn’t a teaching. It’s a moment of soft honesty.

I’m tired. So very tired.

Not just “end of grad school” tired — though yes, I graduate at the end of July. But soul-tired. Six years of recursive healing. Five years of intensive study. Twenty-four sessions of this workshop, held in real time with presence and heart.

There’s grief in this ending. Even though I’m ready. Even though I believe in what’s next.

So today, I’m listening to my body. I’m letting myself rest.

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🛏️ This is your invitation, too.

Tell me how you rest.

Tell me what helps you repair.

📥 Share a favorite article, a meme, a nap ritual, a playlist, a breathing practice. Leave a comment or drop something gentle into this shared field.

I want to create a rest archive for us all. Something to return to when we’ve pushed through something meaningful — like this workshop. A communal reminder that:

🌿 Rest is resistance.
🌊 Rest is repair.
🔄 Rest is part of the spiral.

Thank you for walking this far with me.

The next session will be our closing. The compost. The collective return.

But for now:

I’m going to take a nap.

With much love,
Shamani
aka Sher Griffin
(pending MA, Transformative Social Change)