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Sacred Rest by Saundra Dalton-Smith | book review

Posted January 23, 2018 | Katherine

Sacred Rest by Saundra Dalton-Smith | book reviewSacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity by Saundra Dalton-Smith

About the book: (from the publisher) 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.
About the author: Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an author, speaker, and board-certified physician. She has an active medical practice in Alabama. She 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.

Connect with the author: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest | Google+

Genre: Non-fiction/Christian Living/Women’s Issues

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My take: With so many books about rest on the market, two things (at least) set this one apart: 1) its author is an M.D. — as well as a Christian, wife, and mom — which allows her to understand “busy” from the inside out: physical, spiritual, emotional, mental. And 2) her multi-layered dissection of rest includes more categories than I would have thought to count: in addition to the aforementioned, there’s social, sensory, and creative.

Saundra Dalton-Smith’s personal experience and understanding allows her to examine all of these areas thoroughly, providing along the way both inspiration and practical tips for combating busyness. Of all the areas she examines, Creative Rest is the one that I most appreciated — both for its fresh approach (that she recognizes there is a need for such a thing!), and for her solution given: to “soak in beauty and light.” Yes.

For Christian women who are tired of being busy — and tired of being tired — Dr. Saundra’s wisdom dispensed in Sacred Rest provides hope for a better way.

Thanks to Litfuse Publicity and FaithWords for providing me this book free of charge. All opinions are mine.

Buy it here. 

After words: How do you make time for rest in your busy life?

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