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Seven Down, Ninety-Three To Go

November 16, 2020 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: developing new habits, sleep hygiene

I’m Giving Up My Blankie

November 10, 2020 by not your average mom 3 Comments

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. […]

Filed Under: Self Care Tagged With: developing new habits, habit trackers, improving your sleep hygiene, sleep hygiene

A Very Important Lesson For My Daughter

September 14, 2019 by not your average mom 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: insomnia, sleep, sleep anxiety in kids, sleep hygiene

Do You Have Good Sleep Hygiene?

January 14, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

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 — […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: sleep, sleep habits, sleep hygiene, sleep routines

A (Literal) Wake Up Call

December 19, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: discipline, sleep, sleep deprivation, sleep hygiene

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