Ashani Dante

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1,921 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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But Are You Happy? · How To Fight Back Against Hustle Culture, High Cortisol and Burnout · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

You know, it's really interesting because I think we're in a time where I feel like everyone is burning out. matched

Like I feel like I can get burnt out, my friends, family, and I think matched

When we unpack it all, I think it's important to talk about rest and what that actually looks like. matched

So from your perspective as a clinical psychologist, what does true rest actually look like? matched

What an incredible conversation to be having today in the sort of society that we live in.

The topic of rest feels so necessary and yet so elusive, shall we say.

When we think of rest, I want you to imagine it to be like charging your phone.

you can plug it in but if there are 40 apps that are continuously running in the background that battery is barely going to move and so from a psychology perspective true breast actually needs two things in order for it to take place the first is for the body to stop and the second is that the mind actually needs to switch out of what we call the high alert mode

Now, what that means is that a nap with your mind racing doesn't count and a holiday where your mind is on your inbox also doesn't count.

And what we know from the research on stress and recovery is that when both the body and the mind have that shift down, the brain can actually have that slow repair process that it needs to consolidate all of the information it's gathered throughout the day

And that second part, which is the shifting out of the high alert zone, that's actually the part that most of us skip.

You know, when we think about rest, we just do think about the physical rest, like, oh, I'm just going to lay down, have a nap, but we are still wired. matched

I mean, I can speak from my experience. matched

So why is it that, I know you talked about physical rest and there being a difference between physical rest and mental rest, but why is it that so many of us miss the mark on the mental side of things? matched

Yeah, I think there's actually a really helpful framework here that might allow us to step away from physical versus mental and look a little more broadly.

So there's an American physician, Dr. Dalton Smith, and she did some really interesting research in this space and she actually coined it to be seven different types of rest.

Wow.

I know, I know.

So she talks about physical rest.

mental rest, emotional rest, sensory rest, creative rest, social rest, and spiritual rest.

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