Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith - TKC [2026]

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Board-certified internal medicine physician Saundra Dalton-Smith reveals the real reason why we are chronically tired despite getting the requisite amount of sleep and the six other types of rest available to us in this fast-paced and informative talk.

Physician and award-winning author Saundra Dalton-Smith is passionate about helping others live their best life, especially the stressed-out and burned-out. She has been featured in numerous media outlets including Women’s Day, Redbook, First For Women, MSNBC, CBS, and Prevention. Her newest release, Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity, offers groundbreaking insight on the seven types of rest.

Saundra received her Bachelor of Science in biochemistry at the University of Georgia and graduated with honors from Meharry Medical College in Nashville. Saundra Dalton-Smith is passionate about helping others live their best life, especially the stressed-out and burned-out.

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7 Types of Rest / Self-Care

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Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity

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Watch our full conversation here: The 7 Types of Rest and Why You Need Them All

"Sleep is a type of rest but it's not the same thing as rest. (...) there are seven key areas of energy depletion that need to be restored."

- Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith

"You can't do a sleep marathon and catch up some somewhere down the line; you can't you can't refill the tank not not like that."

- Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith

"We have a generation that's working as functional burnouts (...) The way we fix it is helping people understand small changes in the middle of their busy day could be the fix needed to restore in the area of of their rest depletion."

- Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith

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