Hey there! Apologies that you encountered this issue, could you tell me if you are using either an android or pc cversion? If you find a moment and let me investigate more, please try to dm me on discord and send me a screenshot of your current quests in the quest log.
So what was happening was when getting defeated it was drop to a minus health and was not able to travel and even after sleeping as it keep say needed to rest im on Android. I did start a new game and haven't ran into the problem and yet. But over all loving the game