This is on point, I'm Megna Takrabardi, and we're joined today by Dr. Sandra Dalton-Smith.

She's a physician, researcher, and an author, and in 2017 she wrote a book called Sacred

Rest, Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, and Restore Your Sanity, and she joins us

from Oxford, Alabama, Dr. Dalton-Smith, welcome to the program.

Hello.

Thank you.

So let me just ask you how well-rested do you feel right now?

I feel really great today, I've had some downtime with friends, so I'm feeling fantastic.

That is wonderful.

I can't say I necessarily share that in terms of how I'm feeling, but so when you say downtime,

what do you mean?

What led you to feel ready to take on the world on a Monday morning?

One of the types of rest I tend to have a deficit in is social rest, so being around people

who don't need anything from me are not patients or clients or customers, and so how

to weaken, right?

We went to dinner with some friends, one of those dinners that lasted four hours where

you're just enjoying each other's company, and no one's in a rush, and there's lots

of smiles and deep conversations, and that fills me back up.

Well you know, when we told listeners last week that we were going to do this show about

what rest is, we got a huge amount of response.

And it was just another indicator that so many people feel not well rested or even restless,

which I know is different, but why do you think that is?

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