7 Types of Rest to Recharge and Do Your Best at Work

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Careers, Management, Business

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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🦞 Join our Learn Like a Lobster Sprint: https://bit.ly/4oZzJ3F This week, Helen and Sarah borrow brilliance from Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, who writes about the seven types of rest that everyone needs. Rest is far more than sleep — it’s a set of rituals that help you restore energy, creativity, and motivation in your squiggly career. From physical and mental rest to creative, emotional, and social rest, Helen and Sarah share how to identify your biggest “rest gaps” and design routines that actually work for you. You’ll also hear how Helen used AI to create a personalised rest profile (with some surprising insights) and how you can try the same coaching prompt to find your own rest reset. Episode 512 🦞 Pre-order Learn Like A Lobster: 🇺🇸PRH US - https://bit.ly/3KxTeBn 🇬🇧 Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3KcRZaR ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 02:10 The 7 Types of Rest explained 04:40 Physical and mental rest 05:43 Sensory and creative rest 06:33 Emotional and social rest 07:05 Spiritual rest 09:05 Coach yourself: Rest bests & rest gaps 20:39 Who can help you close your rest gap? 24:40 Using AI to create a personalised rest profile 28:55 Practical rest rituals you can start this week 30:39 Team idea: A “Reflections on Rest” session 🎯 What You’ll Learn - The 7 types of rest and how to recognise which you need most - How to build small, sustainable rest rituals into your week - Ways to use AI to personalise your rest strategy - How to support rest across your team 📚 Resources Mentioned Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity* by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith. For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 📩 Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ 🏃‍♀️ Join the Skills x AI Sprint: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNQl9gsac8BXnWe2qoGuHkLKwsygjP_Ma&si=l7kODG3JpopH0Irz 📮 Get Squiggly Careers in Action in your inbox: https://bit.ly/SquigglyCareersInAction 📚 Read our books: The Squiggly Career and You Coach You: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I just
0:05.0	want to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are very excited about. And that is that our new book,
0:09.8	Learn Like a Lobster, is ready to pre-order now. We really care about everybody learning and growing at work,
0:16.7	but we know it is not easy to do. And so we're borrowing some brilliance from lobsters to help you to do it.
0:22.9	The book takes three inspiring and surprising abilities of lobsters in terms of how they grow
0:29.0	and applies it to how we can learn at work. So if you want some inspiration and you need some
0:34.0	practical insights to support your learning, growth and development. This is the book for you.
0:38.9	And if you pre-order now and send your pre-order to hello at learn like a lobster.com,
0:43.8	you can join the lobster library where we have a community of lobster learners ready for you to learn with,
0:50.1	some live sessions, and this will all happen before the book arrives.
0:55.4	So pre-order the book now,
1:00.7	send it to hello at learn like a lobster.com and get started with your learning straight away.
1:06.3	Now let's get on to today's episode. So we're going to be boring brilliance from Dr. Sondra Dalton Smith, the seven types of rest that every person needs. It's describing rest as like a dynamic
1:12.8	process. We all need different kinds of rest at different moments, that it doesn't stay the same,
1:18.3	but also you can design it in a way that kind of works for you. If you have this conversation,
1:24.7	like these are the seven different types of rest, which ones do you recognise are important to you? I think not only do you learn more about each other, I think it gets rid of the judgment. Because you know if you said, oh, I need physical rest. I need to go for a walk. It's really important to me. Then I would just say, oh, that's because that type of rest is what Sarah needs right now. But that's an insight into a different rest issue that we both are.
1:48.8	Hi, I'm Helen. And I'm Sarah. And this week we are together in person. It doesn't happen.
1:54.1	It doesn't happen. So it's a squiggly careers episode that might sound a little bit different
1:59.5	because we always, I think, get extra excited
2:01.2	when we're talking about things together.
2:02.8	Yeah.
2:03.1	But what will be the same is we're going to be borrowing a bit of brilliance from an idea
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