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S5E4 - 60: Refusing to Rest Might Be Costing You Your Healing

Published: August 27, 2026

Duration: 25:15

This episode closes out the four-part Body Theology series with the topic Dr. Brook has found hardest to live out herself: rest. For weeks this series has built the case that the body was designed with intention, and this final piece asks whether we actually believe it.

If optimization without reverence can slide into idolatry, then rest is the practice that proves whether that belief is real or just something we say. Dr. Brook walks through the biblical foundation for rest, starting in Genesis with God resting not from exhaustion but to establish a rhythm, and moving...