You can say Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith wrote the book on rest. And that’s because she did. After five years into her clinical internal medicine practice and caring for two young children, the author of Sacred Rest underwent an extreme case of burnout. Initially, she thought she needed more sleep.
“At that point, there wasn’t a lot of conversation about burnout. The main conversation was about sleep,” recalls Dalton-Smith. “That was around the time that Arianna Huffington was doing the big sleep revolution. So when I burned out, my initial thought process was based on research that said if I get adequate, high-quality sleep, then I should not feel burned out anymore.”
