Ready for a Soft Spring Reset?

Wherever you find yourself, consider this an invitation:What would it look like to make rest your foundation, not your reward?

Spring signals renewal—an opportunity to begin again, or for the very first time. It is a season that invites reflection, a moment to step out of the patterns that exhaust and into rhythms that restore.

Rest as a Spiritual Discipline

Rest is not passive. It is an active, spiritual practice—one that disrupts cycles of depletion and reclaims the wholeness we were always meant to embody.

This season, I am taking my sabbatical to Toronto as an intentional practice of renewal. Not as a retreat from life, but as a return to it.

To embrace rest is to embrace divine order—a rhythm that prioritizes stillness, reflection, and trust over striving.

For too long, we’ve been conditioned to treat rest as something to earn. But rest was never meant to be a luxury. It is woven into the very fabric of creation.

What if rest isn’t indulgence at all?What if it’s alignment with a greater truth?

A Seasonal Invitation

Transformation begins with permission—to pause, to reflect, to reset.

This spring, let renewal be the most significant offering you make to yourself.

For those ready to take their rest practice global, here are this year’s curated sabbatical destinations:

• April: Toronto, Canada (Join me!)

• May: Mexico City, Mexico

• June: Accra, Ghana (Full destination list available here.)

  
  

But remember: rest is not location-dependent. It begins with intention.

Your Spring Reset

The world will continue to move at an unrelenting pace. You are not required to match it.

This quarter, release urgency.Reject exhaustion as a measure of worth.Step fully into the renewal that is yours to claim.

Sabbatical is not a pause. It is a practice.

With radical rest + soft power,

Kristen Renee Ingram

Creator, Black Girl Sabbaticals