i think i finally figured out how to rest

Emma Chamberlain· Host0:00

It feels like every single trait that I have makes me adverse to rest. Resting is incredibly challenging for me, and I know what a lot of you are thinking: "Emma, how is resting hard for you? The whole point of rest is that it's easy, that it's relaxing, that you don't even have to try. It's just eas- it's j- it's the easiest thing you can do. It's rest! Like, how, how could that be hard for you?" Listen, I ask myself the same thing, but when I look inward, it makes a lot of sense. I'm just not built to rest. [chuckles] Every fiber of my being wants to move, wants to do things, wants to control, wants to overthink. This is just who I am, and to be honest, it makes a lot of sense because my mom is even worse than me. She is even more of a busybody than I am. She's constantly doing something. Now that I think about it, though, as she's gotten older, she's learned to rest a bit more, but my point of bringing my mom into this is that it seems it might be genetic. Whenever I talk about this side of myself, this sort of busybody, control freak, perfectionist side of myself, I'm always a bit hesitant because I know that it can come off as sort of a humblebrag in a way. Like, "Oh, you guys, I just can't help it. I just get so much done 'cause I'm just such a busybody. Oh, I'm such a freak. I just get so much done. I'm just so productive." I know that it can come off that way, but the truth is, is that it's not a flex. Are there