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The Suite Rewind: Darcel Returns, now on Video on some platforms!

July 26, 2026 • Derek H. Suite, M.D. • Season 3

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Welcome to the Suite Rewind Series, where we occasionally return to memorable conversations from the SuitesSpot archives and share them in a fresh shorter format.

For our first rewind, we are going back to where our interviews began. Darcel, my wife, soulmate, business partner, and the very first guest on The SuiteSpot, joined us for a full week of conversations several months ago. The response was so positive, and many of you asked to hear more from her, so we are bringing back selected moments from her Slow Down Sunday episode.

This release also marks another first for The SuiteSpot. It is our first-ever video episode. Darcel’s original interview series, along with every previous episode, was released in audio only.

We have moved from daily podcasting to a weekly schedule, and we know some of you miss hearing from us throughout the week. Every so often, we will surprise you between regular episodes with a Suite Rewind video release.

There are also more than 500 episodes waiting for you in The SuiteSpot archives. Revisit an old favorite or discover an episode you may have missed.

Thank you for listening, watching, and continuing this journey with us. Subscribe to The SuiteSpot, share this episode with someone who may appreciate it, and leave us a comment.

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Welcome To Slowdown Sunday

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Well, it is slowed down Sunday here on the Sweet Spot. And man, have we had a great week. We've had a fantastic week, haven't we, sweet spotters? So I'm Dr. Derek Sweet. For those of you who don't know me, I'm a board certified psychiatrist. We don't have guests on the sweet spot. This is new territory for us. And Darcell, I have to say, this has been one of the most insightful sweet spots we have done, thanks to you.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

Wow. Thank you for those wonderful accolades. And it's a pleasure and a joy to be here with the sweet spotters and all the beautiful souls. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

We try not to introduce

Stillness And Nature As Teachers

SPEAKER_00 0:48

anything new here on Slowdown Sunday. And in fact, also we sometimes get a little bit, I call it spooky. We get into some astrophysics, we get into what the universe teaches us, and we get into nature and the lessons from nature. We still didn't know that I'm God. There's divine direction that comes from being still. And we were talking yesterday about how hard it is to take a deep breath, to surrender, and imagine silence and solitude and stillness and surrender. Finding a time to allow those forces to have access to who we are is the work that we tackle on Slowdown Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Because the truth is we do need that sweet spot of our stillness. For me, yeah, that five minutes is sometimes tough to get, but there's another side of me as I've grown older, Dr. Sweet, and that is I'm a beachwalker, a beachwalker, I'm a skywatcher, and I love, absolutely love the stars and the clouds, and a good rain, and a good storm and a good sunny day. So nature does teach

Why Sleep Is A Human Sweet Spot

SPEAKER_01 2:15

us a lot. So everything you said there, I vibe with it because as we all do slow down, and we have to, you are dealing with a book on sleep soon. So most of your fans out there who may not know that you're working on this. That is such a solitude and such an incredible, peaceful part of who we are as humans. Other animals sleep too, they all do. So that's a sweet spot that we all have that is demanded of our physique every single night. When you don't have it, you can't do much. You can't be at your best. You can't do any of the things you and I talked about all week. You can't finish strong, you can't win. There's a lot wrong when you don't get that sweet sleep.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

Wow, Dorothy. I just blown away. I again only you could say the sweet spot that I'm in the sweet spot. It's the first time somebody's told me, Dr. Sweet, you're in the sweet spot. And that's what it is here on Slow Down Sundays, finding your sweet spot.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

I was thinking as you were talking about slowing down and nature, there's series,

The Ripple Effect In Real Life

SPEAKER_01 3:32

and and when I do slow down, I have to have an entertainment piece in front of me. So that's why I'm really able to watch some of the series I'm watching and some of the movies I'm watching. I can take the time out to allow my sensory to connect with what's in front of me on that screen. And it's full of humans, it's full of stories, it's full of folks going through stuff. So there's one series I just watched called Ripple. And if you're out there listening, you haven't heard of it, look it up because life is a rippling effect, and that's a notoric episode happening. It's also circumstantial and situational. When a rippling effect happens on a lake, you throw a rock and you see wave after wave after wave after wave, it ripples and it just begins to flow, and that ripple just grows. So a rippling effect in all of our lives, when we slow down enough to catch on to it, it goes back into what Dr. Sweet's talking about coincidence and incidents and situations. So one action begets another action. And when you have that rippling effect, it's movement, something is happening. So even when you slow down, I would like to leave everybody with understanding that life is full of ripples. And those ripples connect us back to other people's lives.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Amen. As you say that, I'm thinking past, future, present. We divide it up into that, but there are ripple effects. We've lost loved ones,

Astrophysics And Letting Time Go

SPEAKER_00 5:10

new ones have come into the world. There's yesterday, there's today, there's tomorrow. This in astrophysics and physics, there's really no past, future, or present. There's just this dynamic, there's ripples, there's this rippling effects, rippling effects. So with that metaphysical, very metaphysical ending, we are going to close out the sweet spot here. Our very first interview with our very first guest, inaugural moment, pioneering moment with the great and the inimitable Darcell Dillett Sweet. I know you enjoyed everyone, sweet spotters. I know you enjoyed Darcell. I know you did. She is a breath of fresh air. She's spring. And we we love you, Darcell. We thank you for your time, your energy, your wisdom. We thank you for your bubbly spirit, your just your honesty, your integrity,

SPEAKER_00 6:12

all of what makes you you. May God bless you, and I'll see you tonight.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Thank you everyone for listening. And this has been the sweet spot, and it's been my sweet honor.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Absolutely. And if you haven't subscribed to the sweet spot, now is a great time because we're going to be bringing on guests. And uh man, we're going to be just growing and growing and allowing the good Lord to lead us where the good Lord wants us to be. Take care.