#94: Doctor’s Orders: 7 Ways to Get the Rest You Need

Your life looks good on the outside, but you wake up every day tired and overwhelmed. You know it’s an issue, but you don’t know what to do about it. Is there more you can do, beyond just getting more sleep? How do you find a deeper sense of restoration, so you don’t walk around every day in functional burnout?

This episode welcomes Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine physician, international wellness expert, and the author of Sacred Rest, to talk about the 7 types of rest you need and what to do when you have a deficit. She will unpack how to identify where your deficits are and what you can do to stop living burned out but instead live restored, energetic, and passionate.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

• The distinction between sleep and rest
• Why rest is more than cessation of activity
• How you may unconsciously experience sensory overload
• What factors play a role in your fatigue and recovery time Practical ways to integrate rest as a part of your lifestyle

Resources: 

• Sacred Rest by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith 
• Personal Rest Assessment

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