Sleep

Daylight Savings Time Sleep Tips

Daylight Savings Time Sleep Tips

Every year it seems that just as start enjoying the blue light that peers in through my windows when rousing from sleep each morning, spring forward comes along and shifts all that glory to the evening!

It’s like the groundhog and the shadow, except every year its the same story - weeks and weeks of morning darkness is tossed upon me as I wait for the sun to make its way close to this part of the Earth in the morning once again.

Aside from my personal, minuscule window related troubles, fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the "spring forward" to daylight saving time…

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Sleep Better When Traveling

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Here are a handful of ideas on how to sleep better when you are away from home. To make it fun, they are organized around the five senses.

By addressing each one, you help your body and mind feel safe, secure and comfortable in new environments.

We can't change that fact that we are more alert when traveling, but we can control certain aspects of our environment and routines to get the sleep we need.

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Why Sleep Timing Matters

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Why Sleep Timing Matters

There's one single piece of advice that's universal amongst all sleep experts and researchers. It's to have a consistent bedtime and rising time. This can seem impossible in a culture where we essentially have control over the sun (our indoor lighting). Why does that matter? I'll share a few examples and you'll hopefully have a good laugh at how annoying it is for the human body to change up the schedule too often.

How Does Stress Effect Sleep?

How Does Stress Effect Sleep?

Once you sound the stress alarm bell, your body produces stress hormones to help you cope. One hormone, cortisol, is produced fresh with each stressful episode and it stays in your body until it is metabolized out. Excess cortisol disrupts sleep. Which results in daytime fatigue.

You feel tired when you want and need to be awake and you are awake during times you want to be asleep. Frustrating.