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When you’re caught up in fear of the future, regrets about the past, trying to care for yourself in this stretched-thin world—it’s so easy to lose the present moment. You could be missing [...]

“I didn’t sleep last night!” It’s not uncommon to hear this from new clients. They bemoan that their mind stayed on all night. They’re sure they didn’t sleep because they were [...]

A couple weeks ago, a woman from the Netherlands contacted me about her insomnia. She’s a new mother who, after a few hours of sleep, gets caught in anxiety until the alarm rings. She was [...]

How do you transition from awake to bed, then to rest and sleep? It helps when you say hello to yourself during the day—through gratitude. Gratitude can connect you with your body and ease the [...]

Picture this: One of your body’s organs is spasming. It’s spewing mucus, hurting, and giving you chills, fever, and aches. You’d be anxiously at urgent care in a hot minute, right? Except what if [...]

As a sleep coach, I find there’s always more to uncover about rest. It might be daydreaming, relaxing before sleep, listening to podcasts, reading books. Or as Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by [...]

Your poor eyes. If you’re like me, you spend hours behind a computer or staring at your tiny smartphone screen. So much looking, typing, watching videos, messaging, editing pictures, [...]

It’s December. The solstice is approaching. You wake in the dark, see the sun set before 5, and deal with rain, winds, fog and snow. Despite the dark and cold that calls for rest, this can be a [...]

Some people consider this the worst word: Should. “Shoulds are the inflexible, authoritarian, joyless rules for thinking, feeling, and behaving,” says therapist Michael Schreiner. Shoulds [...]

On the one hand, this news is no surprise. There was the leak several weeks ago and senatorial obstruction of the Supreme Court nomination process for decades prior. But still the news is [...]