Finding Sacred Rest for Your Life & Relationships with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD
If you've been tired or overwhelmed lately, but you get the sense you're getting enough sleep, you may be rest-deprived.
That's exactly where today's podcast guest, busy and bustling (Enneagram 3) author, researcher, and physician Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith noticed both she and many of her patients were struggling.
She used her goal-getting skills to get nuanced and organized about what was missing. She knew the stakes were HUGE, being an ER doctor and internist, since stress-reduction improves not only only your mental health but is the best way to keep your cardiovascular health, plus as she notes, it's the most risk-free, medication-free, and best way to improve or prevent so many diseases!
What she discovered more specifically also was that if someone was overwhelmed in one of seven areas, for example, emotionally, they needed rest in an emotional area, and if they were rest-deprived in mental or sensory ways, these are the areas, not (just) sleep, they needed recovery in.
Her hope and prayer for you is that you don't have to hit complete burnout (literally on the floor burnout) the way she did or other physical disasters before you add whichever of the seven areas of sacred rest that you need.
To help our audience get there, Dr. Dalton-Smith offers us a rest inventory as well as a hope-filled reminder that when you take her inventory (over 250K have taken it), do her rest challenge, or read her book, she hears beautiful stories about both sleep and life being restored!
Today's podcast is where you can begin your sacred rest journey right here with me, as you also hear me get vulnerable as I do the same and hack through which areas I'm getting stuck in, too.
What a true gift as we learn together here!
Christa
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