This episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast is a conversation with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, an internal medicine doctor and author of the book Sacred Rest. We discuss the difference between sleep and rest, the seven types of rest, and how to restore yourself if you are an exhausted parent!

 

We talk about:

• 3:00 Difference between sleep and rest

• 4:33 We don’t need to earn rest

• 7:00 The 7 types of rest

• 18:00 How children experience emotional rest

• 20:40 How to fill the creative rest deficit 

• 22:24 How to fill the mental rest deficit

• 24:41 The importance of sensory rest!

 

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Dr. Saundra’s Rest Quiz https://www.restquiz.com/quiz/rest-quiz-test/ 

• https://www.drdaltonsmith.com/ 

• Sacred Rest https://amzn.to/3WU5yzA 

 

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