Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about what to do when you can't fall asleep.

Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast today. We are going to talk about falling asleep. And that's one thing that I hear from a lot of you guys

when you're anxious or you're stressed is that you have a hard time falling asleep. So let's talk

a little bit about that today. Last week, I talked about how much sleep teens need and I shared

some things you can all do during the day

to help you sleep better at night. So if you didn't listen to that episode, that would be a good

episode to go back and listen to. Okay. So when it comes to getting a good night of sleep

and being able to fall asleep at night, it really starts the minute you wake up in the morning. Okay.

If you are not making decisions during the day that serve you at night when it is time to

fall asleep, you're just making it hard on yourself to fall asleep later at night.

So in last week's episode, I talked about some things that you can do during the day to help

you fall asleep better at night. I know all about having a hard time falling asleep. Okay. One way that

my anxiety has exhibited itself in my life is by messing with my sleep. And it's super annoying, okay?

And it's kind of like this vicious cycle with

anxiety and sleep. The more you worry and obsess about falling asleep, the more you stay awake,

worrying about it. And the more you stay awake, obviously, the less sleep you get and the more

tired you are, the more anxious and stressed out you feel. Okay, so I definitely know how hard

it is to fall asleep when you are feeling anxious or worried about something. And that's kind of like

my anxieties go to. And even if you're doing all the right things during the day, sometimes

you just have a hard time falling asleep at night. And that's okay. So I just want to talk about some things that you can do when you are having a hard time falling asleep at night and that's okay. So I just want to talk about some things that you

can do when you are having a hard time falling asleep. There's lots of reasons why sometimes

we can't fall asleep, but this is mainly when it comes to our brains not wanting to relax

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