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Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
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“To understand why we need beauty, we have to understand our biology.
Imagine you have just come inside from the cold. Your fingers are numb, your shoulders are hunched up around your ears, and your whole body is braced. Now imagine wrapping both hands around a mug of something warm. Feel the heat seeping in. Feel your shoulders drop, just slightly. Feel your breath slow.
That is not a luxury. That is your nervous system being told: you are safe. You can rest.”
― Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
Imagine you have just come inside from the cold. Your fingers are numb, your shoulders are hunched up around your ears, and your whole body is braced. Now imagine wrapping both hands around a mug of something warm. Feel the heat seeping in. Feel your shoulders drop, just slightly. Feel your breath slow.
That is not a luxury. That is your nervous system being told: you are safe. You can rest.”
― Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
“Many autistic people have had their intuition undermined for years by therapies that taught compliance over self-care. You were taught to override your body’s “no” to make others comfortable. We need to start unlearning that conditioning and trusting that God designed your body with limits that are meant to be honoured, not conquered.”
― Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
― Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
“On the hardest days, beauty might feel like too big a word. It might feel like a lie. On those days, we lower the bar. We do not hunt for beauty; we hunt for neutrality. Can you find just one thing in your immediate environment that is not actively hurting you?
This is not a consolation prize. This is, in fact, the most sophisticated thing you can do for your nervous system when it is at its most depleted. Finding one neutral anchor is the neurological equivalent of throwing a rope to someone who is drowning — it does not pull them all the way to shore, but it stops the sinking.”
― Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
This is not a consolation prize. This is, in fact, the most sophisticated thing you can do for your nervous system when it is at its most depleted. Finding one neutral anchor is the neurological equivalent of throwing a rope to someone who is drowning — it does not pull them all the way to shore, but it stops the sinking.”
― Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
“many of the places we’ve labelled weakness, sin, or failure are actually our nervous system doing its best to keep us alive. When we understand how God designed our bodies to respond to stress, we can stop fighting ourselves and begin to partner with Him in kindness.”
― Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
― Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery
