I Tried the 7 Stages of Rest to See if It'd Cure My Exhaustion—Here's Which Ones Really Worked

glamour.com:

that just won’t go away.As the urge to retreat back into my hibernation became overwhelming, I heard about Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith’s seven types of rest.

In her book, , she claims to have found the ultimate exhaustion reset button because apparently, just going to bed at 9 p.m.

won’t do it.Her seven types of rest are physical, mental, sensory, creative, emotional, social, and spiritual. Dalton-Smith's belief is that only by restoring balance in all of these areas can you truly cure your “rest deficit.” With nothing left to lose, I set about seeing if she was right.‌As a classic sedentary worker—that is, a freelance writer—whose commute to the office is quite literally bedroom to living room, I thought I had physical rest nailed.

Turns out I haven’t even got that right.I started by addressing what Dr. Dalton-Smith describes as “passive physical rest” a.k.a.