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Sacred Rest

Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity

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Sacred Rest

By: Saundra Dalton-Smith
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About this listen

 Staying busy is easy. Staying well rested-now there's a challenge.

How can you keep your energy, happiness, creativity, and relationships fresh and thriving in the midst of never-ending family demands, career pressures, and the stress of everyday life? In Sacred Rest, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine doctor, reveals why rest can no longer remain optional.

Dr. Dalton-Smith shares seven types of rest she has found lacking in the lives of those she encounters in her clinical practice and research-physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, sensory, social, creative-and why a deficiency in any one of these types of rest can have unfavorable effects on your health, happiness, relationships, creativity, and productivity. Sacred Rest combines the science of rest, the spirituality of rest, the gifts of rest, and the resulting fruit of rest. It shows rest as something sacred, valuable, and worthy of our respect.
By combining scientific research with personal stories, spiritual insight, and practical next steps, Sacred Rest gives the weary permission to embrace rest, set boundaries, and seek sanctuary without any guilt, shame, or fear. Christian Living Christianity Happiness

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Critic reviews

"Once you get a taste of a well-rested life, nothing else will satisfy." That quote is a nibble of the masterpiece you will feast on in Saundra-Dalton Smith's book SACRED REST. Through a well-balanced weaving of her life's stories, substantiated research, and inspired selection of Scriptures, Saundra has created a perfect mix for challenging each reader to find their place of rest. I highly recommend this book as it's chock full of practical tips and you'll want to buy ten more for your family and friends, or use it for a book club or Bible Study."—Heidi McLaughlin, international speaker and author of Restless for More, Sand to Pearls, and Beauty Unleashed
"Dr. Dalton-Smith has redefined the word REST! In a world with constant "Cerebral Background Noise" you need this book to learn how to set up rest boundaries for you and your family. I love her assessments for the reader to see where there might be a need for more rest, not just in sleep, but in the area of mental, spiritual and CREATIVE rest! I learned so much in this book, I look forward to sharing it with ALL my patients." —Dr. Angie Welikala, CEO, Founder of Healing Agents International. HealingAgents.org
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So much fantastic advice here. It's written through a religious lens from the beginning, and at first seems inclusive of non-Christian readers. The second half of the book is much more dogmatic and the writer's insistence on quoting scripture is distracting which is a shame. Would have given it 5 stars if it had been more inclusive.

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It’s refreshing to listen to to book about rest and self help that has a Christian lens and whilst parts of the book didn’t resonate deeply for me, much of it did and I’m sure would be of help for others.
Thanks for producing a book that caters for the non-secular audience.

Christian Lens

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I listened to this on a journey to and back from London, very engaging and full of thought provoking information as well as gentle suggestions on how to incorporate rest into your life and ultimately find that glow that you've lost. Warning; the author is religious and especially towards the end of the book leans heavily on her religious beliefs. I personally am not and can interpret what she is saying through my own lense of spirituality, but for some this may be a contentious point.

Very timely reminders

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First half of the book really good, very valuable, you should definitely buy this book.

Second half quotes heavily from the bible, frequent mentions of God and Jesus, biblical stories and so on. I would describe myself as spiritual not specifically Christian and I found the continual theme and mentions of the bible jarring and inescapable. I will listen again but stop at the end of part one.

A really valuable book, but be aware is Christian

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I enjoyed listening to this . I will listen again to take notes . I recommend it

thank you. very informative

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