Articles on Sleep
Back to School Blues: 9 Ways to Help Your Tween Go Back to School with Ease
It’s almost that time again…the transition to a new school year. This can be a time of joy and excitement for some and it can also be a time...
What to Do about New School Year Anxieties
Here it comes! School is reopening in a week or two. Are you and your children ready? Transitions are hard for most people but particularly for young people. It’s...
The Essentiality of Sleep Through the Recovery of Depression
When I think of how important sleep is, I am reminded that sleep deprivation is often used as a form of torture. In an article titled “Why Sleep Deprivation...
15 Natural Ways to Fall Asleep Faster Tonight
We all crave a good night’s rest. According to the national sleep foundation, it is recommended to get between seven to nine hours of sleep a night, but that...
15 Tactics to Cope with Anxiety, Insomnia, or Depression
You’re always tired, but not sleepy. You find yourself breaking down for no apparent reason while getting ready in the morning. Simple tasks like grocery shopping can suddenly become...
Tips for Reducing Worry
Worry zaps precious energy and motivates us to act against our best interests. When worry takes hold, our mental filter becomes clouded. Our mental filter allows our brains, when...
Book Review: End the Insomnia Struggle
So much of how we live our lives depends on getting good sleep. If you have a poor night’s sleep, you feel tired all the following day, you may...
Dreams: Your Inner Guidance
Dreams are far more than fantasies and wishes. They reveal inner truths, and expose incorrect conscious attitudes and resolve conflicts, providing a healing and self-regulating function. If you are...
Book Review: The Power of When
Just when you think there isn’t anything more to learn about yourself, a self-help book comes along to surprise you with a new way of looking at things. That...
Book Review: The Secret Life of Sleep
Kat Duff’s carefully researched, engagingly written, and wide-ranging The Secret Life of Sleep is an ode to sleep. The author documents the contemporary preoccupation with productivity, alertness, and cheating...
Tips for a Satisfying Sleep
It’s especially important to get enough sleep during stressful times. You may feel pulled in many directions by relationships, errands and work to be done. However, if you sacrifice...
Into Your Dreams
Into Your Dreams: Deciphering Your Unique Dream Symbology to Transform Your Waking Life, by Janece O. Hudson, is a comprehensive guide to unraveling the mystery of those nocturnal...
The Effortless Sleep Companion
Having recently reviewed Sasha Stephens’s incredible (in my opinion) book, The Effortless Sleep Method, I’d like to share my opinion of her follow-up, The Effortless Sleep Companion. Again, I’m...
Children and Sleep Problems
Many children have sleep problems. Examples include: Frequent awakening during the night Talking during sleep Difficulty falling asleep Waking up crying Feeling sleepy during the day Having nightmares; or...
Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia
From the first sentence, Blake Butler’s poetic voice is clear. He writes: “Into the version of the sky above my house one afternoon when I was twelve, the nearby...
