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LET IT OUT

creative rest, boundaries, belonging, and overwhelm with dr. saundra dalton-smith, author of sacred rest

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

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4.9826 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine physician with an active medical practice near Birmingham, Alabama. She is also an author and an international media resource who has been featured in Prevention, MSNBC, Women's Day, Redbook, self, and numerous other media outlets.

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0:00.0

Overwhelm is that feeling as if we have more coming at us than we can contain.

0:07.0

The problem is most of us, we need to be filled up, but we don't need to be filled up with more stuff.

0:14.0

We need to be filled up from the inside.

0:17.0

And so when more stuff keeps coming out us, it doesn't feel us up.

0:21.0

It just feels like it's putting pressure on it.

0:51.3

Let it go. Hi, welcome. Happy New Year. Happy belated holidays. I hope you found some rest and some coziness

0:58.6

amidst this week. What a start to 2021. I am very happy to be back on the podcast with a new year, a new season, amid so much going on in the world that is really heavy.

1:18.4

So I'm just thinking of you listening and I hope that you are processing everything that's going on in a way that feels nourishing to you.

1:32.7

I'm excited about today's guest, Dr. Sandra Dalton Smith. She's a board certified internal

1:39.8

medicine physician with an active medical practice near Birmingham, Alabama, and she's the author of many

1:46.3

books. She's been an adjunct faculty member at multiple universities teaching courses on

1:53.7

health and nutrition and disease prevention, and she's this international media resource

2:00.3

who's been featured everywhere from MSNBC and

2:04.3

Women's Day.

2:05.5

And she talks about a recent media feature that she got in this episode.

2:10.2

And, you know, she says that we all have made rest synonymous with laziness when in reality it's key to more energy and more

2:23.9

productivity and more creativity and increased happiness even.

2:29.3

And, you know, I think that this year, if it's taught us anything with the pandemic, it's gentleness and slowing down.

2:39.9

And I say this year, I mean 2020, I guess.

2:43.6

Although where I am in L.A. and most many other places as well, you know, where the pandemic is just still here in the largest

2:57.2

way. And again, with everything going on, I think rest and gentleness are just so

3:03.7

incredibly important. I've spent more time alone over these holiday weeks than I have in a

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