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Radio From Hell Wellness Check from September 2nd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's Elena Wood from Nightingale College, and she's on the
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  Speaker 1: phone with us, and she asks the question to which
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  Speaker 1: I will answer, no, to all seven forms. Are you
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  Speaker 1: getting all seven forms of rest? No, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if I'm getting any of them. Elena, this is this
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  Speaker 1: is depressing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I believe that about you. Unfortunately, I know
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  Speaker 2: that you are go go go.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen me, haven't you. You've seen the dark circles under.
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  Speaker 2: My eyes, and you know you're You're definitely not alone here.
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  Speaker 2: I think many of us are are first of all,
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  Speaker 2: just simply not getting enough sleep, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is physical, physical rest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, physical rest, yeah yeah, and just those other pieces
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  Speaker 2: of rest too, are few and far between. I think
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  Speaker 2: for a lot a lot of us, life is busy
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  Speaker 2: and we've got to prioritize it.
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  Speaker 1: A quality sleep is just last night, I went to
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  Speaker 1: bed at a reasonable time, but I couldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Fall asleep, so it wasn't qualified cheese.
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  Speaker 1: I got up and I finally fell asleep, and then
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  Speaker 1: I woke up an hour before I normally do, and
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  Speaker 1: then I just got up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's so frustrating. Yeah, hopefully today you can find
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  Speaker 2: some time where you can or cigarettes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now I should be able to sleep tonight because
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  Speaker 1: I'm exhausted today's But so besides sleep, what other kinds
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  Speaker 1: of rest are there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so sleep falls under physical rest, like we're saying,
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  Speaker 2: and of course you can do other things like just
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  Speaker 2: taking a break, buying down. The next type of rest
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  Speaker 2: is mental rest, and this is just a way of
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  Speaker 2: giving our mind a break, in particular from trying to
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  Speaker 2: make decisions and solve problems, doing things like meditation, taking
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  Speaker 2: mini breaks while we're working, and then also of course
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  Speaker 2: engaging in hobbies that we enjoy that allow our minds
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  Speaker 2: to rest a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Gina collects stamps. She's a stamp collector, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, i'cusing me, Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a nap collector.
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  Speaker 3: Collector collects disease.
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  Speaker 4: What's the difference between mental rest and emotional rest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it is hard to not it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to be calm in the face of of of
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  Speaker 1: tension in the workplace or things like that. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: where your emotional rest needs to come into play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So emotional rest is about allowing ourselves, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: to experience our emotions in healthy ways and of course,
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  Speaker 2: you can support when we need that kind of support
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  Speaker 2: for our emotional well being, and sometimes removing ourselves from
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  Speaker 2: situations if they're emotionally draining. That kind of a thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's which with me usually involves door slamming.
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  Speaker 2: That may or may not fall under healthy and coping skills.
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  Speaker 4: So you're interrupting my sensory rest with your loud door
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  Speaker 4: slamming sensory.
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  Speaker 2: Rest, Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's so true. In our world of constant technology
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  Speaker 2: and noise, it can be really really difficult finding some
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  Speaker 2: time in a day when we can step away from
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  Speaker 2: our screens, we can be in a space that is
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  Speaker 2: more or less quiet. I understand we might not always
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  Speaker 2: be able to find a silent place, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I will just step away from my home desk
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  Speaker 2: and I'll just look out the window for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It makes me feel like I can disconnect at least
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  Speaker 2: a little bit from some of the chaos that's going
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  Speaker 2: on in life.
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  Speaker 3: So it works for cats, it might work for us.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I know, we're really no different. I just need
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  Speaker 2: to spawn in the sun. I can lie down, I'm good, look.
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  Speaker 1: Out the window. Yeah, creative rest. Now, all this I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand what is Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What is this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So this could happen a couple of different ways,
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  Speaker 2: just depending on what your needs are. If you are,
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  Speaker 2: for example, a professional creator and all you've been doing
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  Speaker 2: all day is writing or drawing or whatever, you can
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  Speaker 2: step away and give yourself a break from that. If
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  Speaker 2: your job, or you know, your life is a little
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  Speaker 2: bit less creative, it might include stepping into your art,
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  Speaker 2: your music, whatever it might be. So for most of us,
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  Speaker 2: going to the theater, drawing or writing something just for
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  Speaker 2: fun could be a nice creative rest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I've known people who are creative, who are
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  Speaker 1: writers or painters or things like that, and the way
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  Speaker 1: they they stop all of that and they go out
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  Speaker 1: and chop.
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  Speaker 3: Wood, you know where they go bowling or.
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  Speaker 2: Just yeah, just exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally we have spiritual rest.
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  Speaker 3: We skipped, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: We We've got social.
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  Speaker 3: Social social rest? What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Social rest it could be spending time alone, or
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  Speaker 2: it might look more like spending time with people who
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  Speaker 2: are uplifting and supportive. So again, it kind of depends
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  Speaker 2: on your needs. Some of us need to really recharge
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  Speaker 2: that alone battery, and some of us really need that
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  Speaker 2: more meaningful and deep connection, just finding a space where
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  Speaker 2: you feel at ease and where you feel comfortable in
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  Speaker 2: that moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm not good at being alone, even
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  Speaker 1: when I'm by myself, I like I'm listening to a
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  Speaker 1: pod cast, or you don't want to be with your
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  Speaker 1: own thought?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will some more sensory.
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  Speaker 3: I excel at it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be alone with my thoughts, your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Just our own thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: And then now we get to spiritual Now we.
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  Speaker 2: Get to spiritual rest. And this might look like practices
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  Speaker 2: such as meditation or even prayer. It could also look
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  Speaker 2: like just connecting a little bit more deeply with what
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  Speaker 2: our higher purposes and understanding our connection to the larger picture.
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  Speaker 2: You know that, the understanding that we are one small
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  Speaker 2: part of a greater whole.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I think that. Yeah, I got it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna work on every one of these, starting to.
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  Speaker 2: Do start with one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I will thank you, Elena. Where can people
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  Speaker 1: find out more?
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  Speaker 2: You can learn more about this, as well as Nightingale's
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  Speaker 2: amazing programs by visiting Nightingale Dot you do you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thanks, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Have a good one, we'll see you