Hey guys, this is my leak and this is the podcast.

For several years, I have been hearing a lot of conversations about ease and rest.

And my guess is that you have also heard some of these same conversations.

And so often as I'm talking to people who are in the midst of burnout or grief or

flat out exhaustion, I'm noticing the need to spend some time on the difference between resting

and recovery. And so I want to spend a little bit of time on that with you today.

Resting means you are taking a break from the activity, okay? That's a day off work. That's a break

on the couch. That might be watching TV, scrolling your phone. It's a pause. It's a temporary relief from effort.

But those things don't necessarily restore you. Recovery is an active process. Okay. It is the active

process of the body repairing itself and returning to a better state after

exertion which often includes specific actions and so recovery is an intentional process that happens

while we are resting okay if you've noticed nothing else about this run of the

podcast, you're probably learning that our life requires our action, right? I've always been

about that action. And in this season of life, she is very much midlife. You know, there is,

there is ease, there is rest.

But I want you to remember the importance of you taking action in your life.

And so I want to separate rest and recovery.

I want to spend some time on us just learning the difference and finding ways to get back to our lives restored.

Okay.

So to recover is to actively replenish what has been depleted.

It might be choosing to enhance your sleep quality

and having deep sleep overlying in bed,

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