There’s a kind of tired that sleep can’t touch.

The kind that lives in your bones, your breath, your calendar.

It’s the pause you’ve rescheduled a dozen times.
The exhale that keeps getting postponed.
The moment you keep telling yourself you’ll take—once everything is handled.

We’ve been taught to treat rest like dessert.
Something sweet, but only after the real work is done.

But I’ve come to believe something different:
Rest isn’t what comes after the work.
It’s what makes the work worth doing.

And more than that—it’s a form of leadership.

Not the performative kind.
Not the kind that proves or pleases.
The kind that says:

“I will not abandon myself just to hold everything else together.”

In this blog post, I share what it means to pause with purpose—not as a reward, but as a realignment.
Because the strongest leaders I know aren’t the ones who power through…
They’re the ones who know when to pause before they break.

👉 Read the full post here: Rest Is a Leadership Strategy

And if you’re ready to reset your rhythm, I’ve got you:

🌿 Download the Week-at-a-Glance + Priority Checklist—a free mini toolkit to help you realign with what matters, before burnout makes the call for you.

Or, when you're ready for something deeper, learn more The Creative Return—a space for redefining momentum, reclaiming clarity, and rooting your pace in what’s true.

One quiet pause at a time.

With you in the breath between things,
Jenn