Hi friends. Does life feel a little chaotic, overwhelming, filled with stress right now?

That's a rhetorical question. You don't need to answer that.

One of the things I have really come to appreciate in the year of 2020 and have been working on is this idea of rest.

And obviously sleep is a significant part of that.

And I've been using my Fitbit, which tracks, which can track your sleep,

tracks my sleep and even the stages of sleep, and then every day

it gives me a sleep score, which if you're competitive like I am, particularly competitive

with myself, you know, I can try new things and make adjustments and see if I can get that

sleep score up, which I have been able to do this year.

And I'm sleeping far better now than I was a year ago.

And I'm incredibly grateful for that.

And I can feel the difference.

But a lot of us, myself included, when we think about rest and the importance that that has in our health and our wellness,

we tend to focus on usually just the sleep, which of course is the biggest part of rest.

And if we think of it beyond sleep, we think of rest as the absence of activity, doing nothing.

And, you know, we think of that as rest.

Well, I've come to learn, and this really resonates with me,

that rest can actually be broader than that,

and rest isn't always the absence of activity. And that's what

this week's podcast is all about. A surprising way that walking can improve your rest.

Are you intrigued? You interested? You want to rest? We'll enjoy this week's

podcast. Let's get started. On September 4th, I decided to end my more than two-year streak of

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