The Shape of Rest
Mar 27, 20260m
This reflection grew from noticing how rest arrives when effort loosens, not when everything is resolved. Sometimes the body rests simply because it no longer has to stay alert.
Hosted by Niamh O’Shea · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 14 episodes
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Niamh’s words are quiet medicine for those who feel deeply.Through storytelling, sound, somatic insight, and nature rooted wisdom, this podcast offers gentle reflection and inner stillness. Each episode invites a soft returning to yourself, a place to breathe, to settle, and to remember what lives quietly within.
Niamh O’Shea hosts The Place Within, a society show with 14 episodes published.
This reflection grew from noticing how rest arrives when effort loosens, not when everything is resolved. Sometimes the body rests simply because it no longer has to stay alert.
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