Author: sachad

Hello my sleepy friend, I’m Sacha. I was a good sleeper for most of my life. The occasional sleepless night would happen when I was particularly excited or particularly stressed. I would have too much energy to sleep, but my sleep patterns would return to normal the following night. Then 2012 happened. There were a…

Here’s a “fun” fact:  our primitive minds can override the biological processes that help us sleep. The flight-fight-freeze (F3) response is an ingrained response to imminent danger that was instilled in us many millennia ago27. It’s actually a pretty neat system that creates an automatic response in us that not only protects us from threats…

It’s difficult not to descend into an anxiety spiral when you are sleep deprived. The world can seem bleak, and it’s easy to be pessimistic about nearly everything when you’re lacking sleep. When this happens, you need to make an active effort to combat these negative thoughts and beliefs about sleep (easier said than done,…

Last week was a major step forward in creating a regular sleep schedule. This will not only lead to deflating the anxiety around insomnia, but will eventually make insomnia a total non-issue. Can you imagine a time in the near future where your life won’t revolve around sleep? A time where sleep will come naturally…