When We Stop Pushing: Radical Rest, Reorientation, and Finding Yourself Again

In a profession where doing more is often praised, even when it costs us our health, clarity, and sense of self, what happens when we stop pushing and start listening?

In this returning conversation, host Renita Ray Davis sits down with Regina Lacking, LCSW, also known as the Plant-Based BAWSE, to explore radical rest not as retreat, but as reorientation.

Regina reflects on the season that forced her to ask the question so many helpers quietly avoid: at what cost? Together, they unpack the emotional, physical, and spiritual toll of over-functioning, the moment everything came to a pause, and what emerged when stillness was finally allowed to do its work.

Find Regina Here:

✨IG: https://www.instagram.com/reginallacking/

✨Website: https://www.reginallacking.com/

✨Black Women DO Heal:

👉https://blackwomendoheal.org/

✨Find more of Renita's offerings here:

👉 https://linktr.ee/illuminatedexpressions

Interested in Mastering Your Therapeutic Techniques for Dementia Caregivers?

👉 https://gamma.app/docs/Interested-in-Mastering-Your-Therapeutic-Techniques-for-Dementia--7fnyf5ydeq70qd5

✨ Goddess of Social Work Earrings – Etsy:

👉 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1183285270/goddess-of-social-work-earrings