Fairly new research shows that the sleep routine you create may be more important than getting the perfect seven or eight hours of sleep each night. That is huge news because it shifts our focus to something we can actually control. Life gets busy, schedules change, and sometimes sleep doesn’t go exactly as planned. But […]
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I have been focused on all the latest discussions on sleep for years (past LIFEies on sleep can be found here, here, and here). Below is a very good interview with sleep scientist Daniel Gartenberg. Here is some new information for us to think about as we analyze our sleep: Gartenber thinks we need 8.5 hours in bed
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Last week, I talked about the big positives that come with simply walking every day. Today, I want to take it a step further and talk about going for an easy walk every evening. I have been tracking my evening walks for about 2 years. I STILL don’t get enough of them in BUT
I write a lot about creating habits in LIFEies because they are important. Very important. But every time I write a LIFEies about habits, I have a couple people tell me they are too busy or too tired to create new, healthy habits. So I went searching for how to create habits when you are exhausted
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Main menu Skip to content We all have stress. Some stress is good. For almost a year, we have ALL been under too much stress from the COVID 19 pandemic, lock downs, job losses, being cooped up…you know what I am talking about. Let’s take 10 minutes to do a quick review of how we
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Time for my annual discussion about sleep. Let’s start with some things we already know (Read more in LIFEies). —Sleeping less than 5 hours a night doubles the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. –Losing sleep during the week negatively changes your metabolism (and you can’t catch up). –Glymphatic System (the system that cleans out
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More and more these days you hear people talking about anxiety. As we emerge from over a year of the Covid-19 pandemic, anxiety became a prevalent part of our lives. But, as the article below shows, anxiety isn’t always bad. Sometimes it’s the very thing we need to make a change. Short-term anxiety is often
We all have stress. Some stress is good. For almost a year, we have ALL been under too much stress from the COVID 19 pandemic, lock downs, job losses, being cooped up…you know what I am talking about. Let’s take 10 minutes to do a quick review of how we are handling stress. These areas
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I have spent a lot of time in these LIFEies discussing sleep. For regular followers, you know I am committed to being in bed 7 hours a night, 25-28 nights a month. I have been able to do that since I was declared cancer free in 2014. Why? First, I went 25 years with less than
I don’t normally have any problem falling asleep. However, in my years writing these LIFEies, the number one topic most people come up to me wanting to discuss is sleep. One recurring theme is the time it takes to fall asleep or waking up and not being able to go back to sleep. Today is
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