What started as a personal healing journey quickly grew into a community movement. Jena Burgess Singleton offers friends, fellow moms, and overwhelmed high achievers a break.
It started with two spare rooms and a radical question: “Does anybody want to rest?”
When Jena Burgess Singleton posed that inquiry in a local moms’ Facebook group in Smyrna, Ga., she received 65 responses. After vetting 20 from that group, within days, women— many of them complete strangers—were arriving at her home, craving stillness, crying in hallways, and finally, for the first time in a long time, breathing.
Now, that same spirit lives on at The Rest Spot, a private, women-only wellness campus Singleton opened in June 2024 with a mission as graceful as it is urgent: to help women—especially Black women—reclaim rest.
“I was forced to rest,” Singleton says, recalling a period in 2023 when the weight of life, career, and caregiving came crashing down. “My body physically reacted. I would constantly shake from my cortisol levels; I had facial paralysis. My nervous system was fried.” A primary care doctor pulled her off the job immediately, and for three months, she focused on recalibrating, healing, and—most importantly—being. That forced pause changed everything…