Welcome to the Calm Mom podcast, the show for ambitious women ready to get off the Hot Mess Express.

I know you've got a lot going on. You work so hard. You're raising an incredible family.

And sometimes it can be overwhelming. I'm your host, Michelle Grocer. I'm a certified master life coach, attorney,

wife, and mom. And years ago, I was right where you are. I was running a busy law practice

while raising a family, and I was on the fast track to burnout. I thought I just needed to be more

organized or have better routines, but it was learning

how to heal and regulate my nervous system that expand in my capacity to gracefully hold more

of this big, beautiful life.

You too are worthy of an extraordinary life in and beyond motherhood.

Learning to be a calm, anchoring presence in your home and at work

is going to be your superpower. If you're here to do the inner work that brings a sense of calm

amidst the chaos, I'm here to join you on that journey. Each time you press play, your growth

continues, so let's get at it.

Welcome to the Calm Mom podcast. It's Michelle Grocer here. Happy New Year. So grateful that you guys are with us today. We're going to talk about sleep. We're going to talk about three ways

that you guys can optimize your sleep because we all know how important sleep is.

And I don't know, I've been through periods of insomnia in my life.

I have two kids.

So obviously early on in that parenthood journey, sleep is just hard to come by or it can be hard to come by.

And when I was in the throes of that newborn motherhood stage, I remember my own mom telling me that

she had read something that it takes six years on average for your sleep to return to normal

after you have children.

And I feel that. I don't know if that's true for you guys too, but after I had, like,

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