ABOUT THE BOOK:
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an author, speaker, and board-certified physician. She has an active medical practice in Alabama (near the Birmingham area). She received her B.S. in Biochemistry at the University of Georgia, and graduated with honors from Meharry Medical College in Nashville. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Baker College and Davenport University in Michigan teaching courses on health, nutrition, and disease progression. Dr. Dalton-Smith is a national and international media resource on the mind, body, spirit connection and has been featured in Women's Day, Redbook, and First For Women magazine. She is the author of "Set Free to Live" and "Come Empty" (winner 2016 Golden Scroll Nonfiction Book of the Year and 2016 Illumination Award Gold medalist). She is a member of the Christian Medical and Dental Association and a repeat keynote speaker at their annual gathering. She has shared her tips on merging faith and medicine with over 16,000 health care professionals to encourage the current and next generation of doctors to treat the whole person.
Find out more about Saundra at http://ichoosemybestlife.com.
MY REVIEW:
As someone who has felt un-rested so much, this book is a breath of fresh air. I have always equated sleep with rest, but Dr. Dalton-Smith shows us that they are two totally different things.
She shares with us the seven different types of rest, why we need it and advice on how to achieve it. She uses practical and scientific information to help us in our quest to find rest.
This book is in encouraging in the stories she shares and the encouragement to be intentional in our pursuit of rest. Each day of this devotional is a short section that is easy to read and will have you relaxing the minute you start reading it. I looked forward to opening this book each and every time.
If you find yourself feeling tired and/or burned out, this book is definitely for you. It will help you achieve the true rest that we all need. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.
*This book was provided to me for my honest review by LitFuse Publicity Group
As someone who has felt un-rested so much, this book is a breath of fresh air. I have always equated sleep with rest, but Dr. Dalton-Smith shows us that they are two totally different things.
She shares with us the seven different types of rest, why we need it and advice on how to achieve it. She uses practical and scientific information to help us in our quest to find rest.
This book is in encouraging in the stories she shares and the encouragement to be intentional in our pursuit of rest. Each day of this devotional is a short section that is easy to read and will have you relaxing the minute you start reading it. I looked forward to opening this book each and every time.
If you find yourself feeling tired and/or burned out, this book is definitely for you. It will help you achieve the true rest that we all need. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.
*This book was provided to me for my honest review by LitFuse Publicity Group
Blessings - Julie
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