This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

Welcome to the Self-Helpful Podcast.

I'm Kevin Miller and I'm not really interested in personal growth and personal development,

but I'm actually interested in is just being happy and having purpose and achieving things that fulfill me.

To do that, however, I've got to actually become more aware and grow and evolve.

So I work with our largest publishers and agencies to bring you the cutting edge experts on the subjects of self-help,

for in-depth conversations that help us understand and engage in our own self-help.

This is my Functional Friday episode where we focus on our health and wellness,

so we have the ability and capacity to pursue all we desire.

Today we're talking about the hard work of true relaxation and renewal.

In our last Functional Friday episode, we talked about how we're only as strong as our level of recovery.

Daily there are things that we do with sleep being paramount,

but there are other important aspects of recovery as well.

We often pursue relief that's not really renewal.

I mean, kicking our shoes off at the end of the day, watching a game, or binge watching a show,

or reading a novel, eating out, or things that we may feel relief from,

but do we really feel renewed and refreshed?

Do we stand up and stretch our arms and say,

oh, man, do I feel great now after watching a few shows and eating some chips?

Not usually.

We might feel, again, some relief, but not renewal.

Even thinking about vacation, which we talk about in the show here,

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