Join Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified physician and author of 'Sacred Rest,' alongside entrepreneur Kate Northrup, as they dive into the vital need for effective rest. They discuss the shocking truth about 'rest deficits' and its impact on performance. Explore the seven types of rest that rejuvenate both body and mind. Their conversation encourages embracing creative breaks and prioritizing mental, emotional, and social well-being, while sharing personal insights on overcoming the hustle culture.
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Burnout and Rest
Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith experienced burnout despite getting enough sleep.
Conventional medicine offered no solutions, leading her to explore different types of rest.
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Rest as Restoration
Rest is restorative and goes beyond just physical sleep.
It involves activities that replenish your mental, emotional, and spiritual energy.
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Prioritize and Delegate
Determine if tasks truly need to be done, and if so, by you and right now.
Delegate tasks and eliminate unnecessary ones to reduce mental clutter.
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Kate Northrup's "Do Less" challenges the modern obsession with productivity and hustle culture, offering a refreshing approach to achieving more while working less. The book emphasizes the importance of prioritizing essential tasks and eliminating time-wasting activities. Northrup provides practical strategies for managing time and energy effectively, helping readers to avoid burnout and create a more balanced and fulfilling life. It encourages readers to identify their core values and align their actions with their purpose, leading to increased productivity and a greater sense of accomplishment. Ultimately, "Do Less" empowers readers to achieve more by focusing on what truly matters.
You’re probably skipping rest to get more done in your day. Or you think you’re resting while you sleep. The former doesn’t work; the latter just isn’t true. Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith and Kate Northrup approach rest and recovery in ways that actually re-energize and power your performance. In this special episode of Bulletproof Radio, you’ll learn about your “rest deficit” and ways to optimally rest your brain, body, and emotions.
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Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a board-certified internal medicine physician, work-life integration researcher, speaker, and best-selling author. She’s been the featured wellness expert for numerous media outlets including MSNBC, Dr. Oz, Fast Company, and Psychology Today. She’s practiced clinical medicine for more that 20 years in the Birmingham, Alabama, area.
In her book Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity, she describes seven types of rest that underlie how we show up in the world. All of them affect your performance in different and unexpected ways. “Rest really is about restorative activity,” Dr. Dalton-Smith says. “What are the restorative activities you do to help pour back into these seven areas to counteract the ways that you pour out within your day-to-day life.”
Kate Northrup is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker, activist and mother, she has built a multimedia digital company by doing less and working fewer hours—all while raising two small kids. Her trick? Bending time.
“We might be doing things just because we’re upholding some standards that if we really were to check in with our hearts and souls, they’re not actually bringing us joy,” Kate says. “So, I believe things need to either bring us results or bring us joy. If they don’t bring us results or joy, they have no business in our lives.”
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