Why You’re Still Tired After 8 Hours of Sleep: The 7 Types of Rest

You slept eight hours and still woke up tired. You took the vacation and came home needing a vacation from your vacation. You are not broken. You may be missing the kind of rest your body and mind actually need. In this episode of The Whole and Complete Woman Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine physician, speaker, and award-winning author. Her work has been featured by CNN Health, MSNBC, FOX, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Prevention, Women’s Day, Inc., and TED. She is the author of the bestseller Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity, where she introduced the seven types of rest, and more than 500,000 people have discovered their personal rest deficits through her free Rest Quiz. This conversation goes deep on the difference between sleep and rest, the seven types of rest (physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory, and creative), how Dr. Saundra’s own burnout led her to this research, where high-achieving women tend to carry the biggest rest deficits, practical tools for mental rest including time blocking, energy cycling, and why multitasking costs more than it gives, the signs each type of rest deficit can show up as, what happens when depletion becomes your baseline, where guilt about resting comes from, how to rest when there are always things left undone, why savoring matters, how to habit stack restorative practices instead of adding to your to-do list, what we may have misunderstood about faith and rest, and a rapid fire round. If you have ever felt like you are doing everything right and still feel depleted, this conversation will give you the language to understand why and a place to start. Chapters 00:00 - Welcome and Introduction 03:45 - Sleep vs. Rest: What Is the Difference? 04:26 - The Seven Types of Rest 05:44 - How Dr. Saundra’s Own Burnout Started This Work 09:41 - Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Rest Explained 13:19 - Emotional, Sensory, Creative, and Social Rest 17:50 - Where High-Achieving Women Have the Biggest Rest Deficits 22:27 - Multitasking: Are You Really Good at It? 28:00 - Signs of Each Type of Rest Deficit 32:45 - Why Rest Brings Up Guilt 39:36 - How to Start Without Making Rest Another To-Do 48:51 - What a Well-Rested Woman Looks Like 51:50 - Where to Take the Rest Quiz and Find Sacred Rest Resources and Links: Connect with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith: Take the free Rest Quiz: https://restquiz.com Sacred Rest: https://amzn.to/4bqePGT Website: https://drdaltonsmith.com/ I Choose My Best Life: https://ichoosemybestlife.com/ Social: @DrDaltonSmith LinkedIn:   / drdaltonsmith   Worthy of Rest by Dr. Alicia Newsome: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLMN28W7 All retailers: https://books2read.com/u/mdrXzW Learn more: http://l.bttr.to/WqbS7 FREE RESOURCES FROM DR. ALICIA: www.draliciagifts.com INVITE DR. ALICIA TO SPEAK: https://www.dralicianewsome.com/invit... SEE DR. ALICIA NEWSOME ON TV:    • Dr Alicia Newsome | Good Morning Arizona |...   Follow us on Social Media to stay connected! 📱 Instagram:   / dr.alicianewsome   🔗 LinkedIn:   / dr-alicia-newsome   ☕️ Facebook:   / dralicianewsome   Keywords: 7 types of rest, sleep vs rest, why am I always tired, burnout recovery, burnout in women, rest deficit, Rest Quiz, Sacred Rest, mental rest, emotional rest, sensory rest, creative rest, spiritual rest, multitasking, time blocking, rest and productivity, internal medicine physician, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, Dr. Alicia Newsome, The Whole and Complete Woman Podcast