Chapter Three · December 2026
Chapter Three: My Soft Is Holy
Because they couldn’t, we will.
Only 18 seats · 4 overnight spots
Your Path to Rest
Four ways to collect the rest your ancestors were owed. Start anywhere. Move at your own pace.
Take the Rest Deficit Test and find out which of the seven types of rest you’re missing. Free.
Take the Rest TestThe We Rest as Reparations journal. Over 350 pages of guided rest, herbal recipes, and scripture at home.
Get the JournalCome to Chapter Three on December 19. An afternoon of rest with women who see you. Stay the night if you want to.
Reserve Your Rest · Dec 19Only 18 seats. 4 overnight spots.
The Sabbath Circle. A monthly rest membership so you never leave the practice. Opens September 1, 2026. $37/month.
Get Circle DetailsOpens September 1, 2026
A monthly rest membership so the practice never leaves you. $37/month.
Founding members from the first two Gatherings receive a locked founding rate.
Get Circle DetailsFrom Chapters One and Two · May 30 and August 22, 2026
Chapters One and Two of We Rest as Reparations. The door opens again on December 19.
“Phenomenal day of deep rest. Thanks sis.”
First Circle Attendee · May 30, 2026
We are honoring rest as a form of reparations for Black women. This is not a workshop. It is not a lecture. It is an invitation to stop, to breathe, and to simply be. Whatever arises, grief, release, unexpected tears, laughter, you will be held here. You will leave with a salve and sea moss to help you carry this stillness home.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28
“He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul.”
Psalm 23:2-3
“In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.”
Isaiah 30:15
“Rest is not a luxury. It is a divine right and a necessary component of liberation.”
JC Jackson
Three hours of intentional stillness in a private home in the Houston area
A grounding meditation with a curated sound healing playlist to help your body downshift from urgency into ease.
A full hour to nap, lie still, or journal quietly. Lights dim, phones off. Rest however your body needs.
A warm cup made from the journal's own resting tea recipe. Chamomile, lavender, and herbs chosen for calm.
A live performance of JC Jackson's poem “We Rest as Reparations,” followed by soft conversation and reflection.
Time to write while you rest. Add a hardback of My Soft Is Holy or We Rest as Reparations to your ticket and it will be waiting for you.
An intimate gathering where rest is shared. Gentle conversation about mental health, resistance, and what it means to stop on purpose.
Plus salve and Magnesium Sigh samples to use during your rest, and a small sea moss and salve to take home.
Cared for by JC Jackson and our holistic manager, Shantá.
Tap what resonates. We'll meet you there with something from the earth.
Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, physician and author of Sacred Rest, identified 7 types of rest every person needs: physical, mental, emotional, social, sensory, creative, and spiritual. Most of us are running on a deficit in at least four of them.
Take her free 5-minute quiz to discover which types of rest you’re missing, then join us to pursue each one.
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“Actually napping in a room filled with people; it was like a slip back into childhood. Very cool! Also, the stretching was much needed.”
Chapter Two Guest · August 22, 2026
“The things I need to rest from weren’t the typical things I’d expect, it was more about the expectations I put on myself and the fears I have.”
Chapter Two Guest · August 22, 2026
“Journaling during the nap time; naming what I needed rest from and coming to better understanding of the obstacles to rest.”
Chapter Two Guest · August 22, 2026
Saturday, December 19, 2026 · 1:00 – 4:00 PM · A private home in the Houston area
Only 18 seats in total, including 4 overnight spots.
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Saturday, December 19 · 1:00 – 4:00 PM
$272
Friday, December 18 at 5:00 PM through Saturday at 4:00 PM
$25
Each hardback, $5 off · Add to either ticket
What to bring
A comforter or wrap you love, a yoga mat or something soft to lie on, comfortable clothes, socks, a water bottle, and an open heart. Everything else is already waiting for you.
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You’ve been the strong one long enough. A guided journal for Black women who are ready to stop earning their rest and start living soft on purpose. Built around the nine lines of the Soft Queen Creed, with 375 pages of prompts and writing pages, six herbs with peer-reviewed research and safety notes, step-by-step tea and salve recipes, and scripture on softness throughout.
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A 359-page guided journal for Black women who need permission to stop. Guided rest prompts, a resting tea recipe, a resting chamomile salve recipe, and space to carry softness into your everyday life. Research-backed, rooted in herbal medicine, and written from a Christ-centered heart.
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Rest is not one thing. It is a way of life. Here are the other doors I've opened for you.
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Lavender lemonade and rest salves crafted to soothe your nervous system.
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For the woman who can't put her business down. We build an AI system in your voice, so your business runs while you rest.
$7,500 setup · or 2 payments of $3,750
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JC Jackson is a Holistic Healthcare Advocate, author, spoken word artist, and the founder of Elijah Broke the Gate LLC and Jesse's House Holistic Assisted Living. She is currently completing her Master of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine at Notre Dame of Maryland University's School of Integrative Health, the only M.S. Clinical Herbal Medicine program from a regionally accredited university in the nation. She also leads Medicine Crafts Collective, a hands-on herbal school in Houston.
Her work lives at the intersection of herbalism, faith, grief, and rest. She created We Rest as Reparations because she believes Black women deserve tools for stillness that honor their bodies, their ancestors, and their God.
A note on Sigh: our sensory grief retreat has been rescheduled to Saturday, October 2, 2027.
