‘This Is A Safe Space’: Inside Atlanta’s The Rest Spot, A Haven For Overwhelmed Black Women

The Rest Spot ArchivesBy Janeé Bolden ·Updated May 16, 2025It 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 lo