Last week I wrote this post about how I have developed some really horrible sleep habits over the last 15 years and how my sleep hygiene is terrible and how I am addicted to watching my iPad in bed in order to get to sleep and how this routine is preventing me from getting a […]
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I’m Giving Up My Blankie
In my HOME BACE membership group, we have weekly accountability meetings on Sunday mornings. We call them WAMs. I didn’t come up with this name. It came from the book The 12 Week Year. The WAMs are short Zoom meetings where we talk about what we really want to focus on in the upcoming week. […]
A Very Important Lesson For My Daughter
Number 5 has always been a good sleeper. She learned to sleep on her own when she was a baby — we never had to make her cry it out. One day around five months old, she slept through the night. And that was it. There was a phase when she was two or three […]
Do You Have Good Sleep Hygiene?
The first time I heard the term “sleep hygiene” was about 20 years ago. I was sitting in a therapist’s office after having been released from Silver Hill, a psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut where I had been for a week. I had just been diagnosed with major depressive disorder — major depression — […]
A (Literal) Wake Up Call
Well, I’ve had a wake up call this past week. Another one. This isn’t the first time I’ve had this a-ha moment, either. I just fell back into old routines, and I guess I kind of forgot. Or maybe I thought I was invincible or super human or something. But I’m not. And to get […]