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

The Rest Spot Archives By Janeé Bolden ·Updated May 16, 2025

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