“You have to get the rest in that area you have the deficit. That’s when you start feeling energised. That’s when you start the change that gets you on track to the life you really want”

— Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith

You're sleeping well yet you're still feeling drained during the day. You've had a number of tests and the results are inconclusive.

Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith talks about her own personal brush with burnout and how she came to the principle of 7 different types of rest that we all need. Yet we hold a belief that rest is synonymous with laziness or that we don't have time to rest.

You'll be surprised at what fabulous ideas she shares for identifying the rest deficit and activities to create the types of rest need. They're key to more energy, greater productivity, better creativity, increased happiness, and a thriving life.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith

We spoke about

Dr Saundra’s brush with burnout
Why we hold a belief that rest is synonymous with laziness
When we do get the right rest how this impacts our lives
What the seven types of rest she found lacking in many patients
A simple way that the listeners can identify a rest deficit and how to address this
Dr Saundra’s book “Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Renew Your Sanity”
Dr Saundra’s tips for Living Fabulously

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Partial Transcript

Dr. Saundra 0:41

Sure. Well, most of my research now in my writing is based around my own personal burnout journey, about probably about 10 years ago now is when I initially went through that phase of burnout where I got to a point in my professional career, where I was busy doing a lot of work I was I looked very successful from the Outside, because of the accolades and the work and all of those things that were going on, but I didn't enjoy the work that I was doing, I wasn't happy with kind of just my own personal life.

I got to that point where it was all about the work and there was no time to rest and to recover, and to really even enjoy the work that I was doing. And so it was during that time that I started to look at, what does it mean to rest. I was tired all the time. And you know, I was going to bed at night trying to see if maybe I just wasn't getting enough sleep. So I was trying to get the eight to nine hours, would wake up the next morning, still exhausted. And that's when it really started to dawn on me that maybe rest isn't just sleep, maybe they're not synonymous with each other. Maybe there's something else that I'm missing. And that's what led into kind of the deeper research about the seven types of rest and getting an understanding about what they look like how to apply them in the middle of a busy workday.

Because I think many of us you know, when we think about, okay, now I know I need rest. When am I going to find time for that vacation to get away to go to Hawaii, you know, we can't always be doing that as our only form of rest. Because then we're only resting you know, two weeks out of a couple of weeks out of the year. We have to be able to make it something we can do on a regular basis. And I think that's where it really the journey for me got real. How do we live a restful life in the middle of the business that is our lives?

Bev Roberts 2:29

And so true, because I think for a lot of us as woman, we always feel like we need permission to rest. And you like you say, I have heard that so many times in my own practice. I don't have time to do this. And some people will make the word rest synonymous with laziness. So why do you think that we hold that type of belief in mindset?

Dr. Saundra 2:53

I think it's cultural for a big part. I think many of us have kind of adapted to our cultural thought process that work is the only thing that's valuable. And if when you start looking as work as the only thing that holds any value, then the rest starts looking like it's taking you away from the work. So the mindset shift that has to happen there is that the rest helps you do higher quality work. If you know, you can grind out work in the middle of your exhaustion, but it's not your best work to do your best work requires that you rest.

Bev Roberts 3:31

Now we are talking. That's my jam around rest is that yes, you can do that. And I think there's a difference here between thriving and surviving. So you've got this real dichotomy where people sort of see it really black and white, and that rest doesn't impact our lives. But when we get it right, what are some of the real benefits of having enough rest and the right type of rest on our businesses, our homes, our lives, whatever, whatever that means.

Dr. Saundra 4:07

I think that the very first thing is just our own mental capacity. I think you know, for so many of us, we stay kind of stressed out and anxious and on edge, because we're not resting our mind and our emotions and our social aspects of our lives. So being able to rest in those areas, you start having more mental clarity, you stop forgetting things at 40. And thinking that you have early dementia because you're able to concentrate again, and to have that mental clarity, you start having the ability to have deeper relationships because you're not always feeling agitated because of the extra stress on your life.

You know, in the areas of work, when people start thinking about their need for creative rest, then if you're an entrepreneur, or small business owner even and you're having to stay on top of your game, think about marketing In ways of being innovative, that requires creativity, and so you can burn out your creativity, you need that creative rest, to be able to be re inspired and to have those passions awakened again, to be able to get those innovative thoughts that, you know, come up in the middle of the night. You're not going to get that if you're always going to bed exhausted, and you don't allow any time in your day to be inspired. And to have that part of you awakened again.

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