Worthy of Rest: For the Woman Who is Tired of Being the Strong One

"Alicia is a doctor who has lived what she writes about. That combination is rare, and it is why this book reaches places that most books about rest will never touch.” —Dr. Tabatha Russell, Wealth Strategist and Founder, Next Level CEO™ Collective

This culture worships exhaustion. It praises the woman who never drops the ball. It rewards the one who carries more than she should. It calls her strong. Capable. Faithful. Responsible. And quietly, it convinces her that stopping would be dangerous.

If you are the woman everyone depends on, the one who builds, produces, leads, and holds it all together, you know this tension well. You love God. You work hard. You steward what you’ve been given. And somewhere along the way, rest started to feel irresponsible. Because if you stop, what might fall apart?

So you’ve tried self-care. A massage. Maybe even a vacation. But within forty-eight hours, the exhaustion was back. Surface-level relief can’t reach a root-level problem.

In Worthy of Rest, functional medicine practitioner Dr. Alicia Newsome shows why rest isn’t reaching you. With clinical insight and spiritual clarity, she uncovers the beliefs that make stillness feel unsafe, the symptoms you’ve learned to push through, and the four pillars of misalignment that drain rest before it can restore you. Then she walks you back to a life rooted in safety, trust, and surrender.

This is not a call to shrink your ambition. It is an invitation to release what was never never yours to carry. You weren’t meant to prove your worth through endurance. You are already worthy of rest.

Dr. Alicia Newsome is a functional medicine practitioner, hormone expert, clinical research consultant, and international speaker whose work sits at the intersection of leadership, health, and faith. With over 15 years of clinical experience, she is the founder of Body Wellness Institute and co-author of three best-selling books. She is a recipient of the United States Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award and is passionate about helping women untangle their worth from what they produce and return to a life rooted in trust rather than control.