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How I Solved All My Problems By Just Going To Sleep. — Here’s How To Sleep The Right Way
By Shanice Sinclair
Disclaimer: I am not a health professional, and my advice is not medical advice. Please see a doctor for tailored healthcare advice.
Stressed? Go to bed. Broke? Go to bed. Can’t focus? Go to bed. Having one of those really horrible days where all you want to do is just go to sleep? Yeah…you should probably just go to bed.
Yes, I have effectively solved most of my problems with sleeping more recently, but more specifically, by getting quality sleep. Not curled-up-in-a-ball-cry-myself-to-sleep-after-eating-a-pint-of-ice-cream-sleep…or late-night-fall-asleep-watching-Netflix-sleep. No, this was intentional, planned rest, with time windows and eating restrictions and supplements. Don’t close your browser just yet though, let me explain.
If you’re like me and you’ve been down the rabbit hole of fitness, mental health, and nutrition blogs and videos online, you may have come across people casually dropping in gems like “make sure you rest so your body can recover” or “not getting enough sleep can increase stress levels” but you think to yourself, ”I get enough sleep already” as you click through to the next video and chug a Starbucks refresher at 11 pm on a Wednesday. Yes, I’m dragging you. You are not…
