Week Five Summer of Mentorship 2020 Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As moms, we know we need rest. We usually equate rest with sleep or rest with a vacation, but this week’s guest shares a much bigger picture of our need for rest in multiple areas of our lives. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a medical doctor, wife and mother to two boys. She had everything she’d dreamed of and worked hard to achieve, but wasn’t enjoying it. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So I kept pushing and pushing myself till I got to the point where I literally just burned out. I wasn't happy with my job. I couldn't see how my marriage would survive. I didn't want my kids anymore. I was just at the end of myself. I didn't want the life I created.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After reaching this breaking point, she went on a journey of restoration and healing where she learned to connect with God and with his plan for rest. Now she shares her research and methods with her patients and with all of us. If you’ve ever felt tired and at the end of yourself, this episode is for you. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We already have permission to rest, but the mommy guilt that sometimes comes tells us we don’t. That is really a lie. I look at it as the John 10:10. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And he's doing it to a lot of us through our inability to rest, our inability to trust God that when we lay things down that he is able to uphold them.”</span></p> <p><strong>What we chat about:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Saundra reached her breaking point from stress and lack of true rest</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have physical limits to what we can do as moms </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Saundra researched rest and looked at scripture for clarity on how God rested</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weigh