Amy Says…
Hello {{first_name}} ,
How do you feel about naps?
I happen to love a good nap. It’s not something that I do every day, but when I'm tired and there's time, I'm down. I do not have a schedule or a strategy for my naps. I just nap, and I wake up when I wake up.
I learned recently that this might make me an inefficient napper. Here’s what happened. I had a conversation with somebody who told me that naps should either be 20 or 90 minutes. No exceptions. That felt unreasonable but then I googled it and it turns out that google recommends setting an alarm for naps to keep them under 30 minutes to avoid “sleep inertia.”
So now I’m wondering if I’m an undisciplined napper? Is my lack of discipline for naps related to my occasional insomnia? I’m also wondering if the rest of humanity is really out there setting alarms for their naps. Hit reply and let me know your thoughts on napping. Are you a 20-minute precision napper, a "wake me when it's over" person, or are you firmly anti-nap and judging nappers like me?
This week I have two stories to share from women who are both in the field of medicine and made career changes. Christine Davies shares her story of how she became a hospital chaplain and Sarah Dawkins shares how a conversation with her veterinarian challenged and changed her own ideas about medicine and career. Enjoy!
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Career | One Diagnosis Redirected My Life
Christine Davies
Davies is a hospital chaplain and spiritual director in New Jersey, and her road to that work winds through an EMT certification at 16, a pre-med track, an epilepsy diagnosis nobody saw coming, seminary, social work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and one very important conversation over a plate of spaghetti.
Some of us think we know what we want to do with our lives until life interrupts the plan. For Christine Davies, that interruption came in the form of a medical diagnosis that upended her original path toward medicine and eventually pointed her toward something she hadn't anticipated: becoming the person in the hospital room who isn't there to treat your body, but to tend to your spirit.
Special offer from Christine for the audience:
5 simple spiritual practices you can do today - download https://www.christinevdavies.com/gift
Holistic Health | How Questioning Pills Changed Everything for This Nurse
A single conversation about a puppy's vaccines changed everything Sarah Dawkins thought she knew about health, healing and herself. At the time, she was a registered nurse with years of training and clinical experience, working in a system she had dreamed of being part of since childhood. She had no reason to question any of it. Then a colleague asked a simple question: do you know what's in that vaccine? She didn't. And that gap -- between what she had been taught and what she didn't know -- sent her down a path that would eventually cost her the career she had spent years building, push her into a serious mental health crisis, and ultimately lead her to a life that felt, for the first time, fully aligned.
Sarah Dawkins
Find Sarah’s Podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yBLqeIPxkhgymnpGMCcMZ and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-body-medicine-for-self-healers/id1670856549
Special offer from Sarah for you:
Understanding Your Core Beliefs. E book about how to find your core beliefs and challenge and change those that no longer serve you. https://mailchi.mp/7a6d66bbb5e1/core-beliefs
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