332: How to Achieve Deep, Restful Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

I struggled with chronic sleep deprivation for more than a decade. During that time, I’d fall asleep in the barber’s chair. If I was talking on the phone while in bed, I’d pass out in the middle of the conversation. On airplanes, I’d be asleep before takeoff and the flight attendant would have to wake me up after landing. My world was hazy. My focus was hour-to-hour. Generally speaking, my head felt like a swamp I had to wade through to get anything done.

A poor night’s sleep affects your mood, your decision-making, and even your appetite—but we all have bad nights. The only way to escape the occasional restless night is to live a monastic life, without kids, neighbors, construction, work stress or a partner. To live a full life, for most people, means losing some sleep now and again. And you know what? That’s fine, if you can recover.

On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a sleep expert who focuses on high-leverage strategies, not micro-tactics to improve your sleep.

Listen & Learn:

How understanding your chronotype can help you optimize sleep
Sleep deprivation vs. insomnia, understanding the difference
Why 'sleep drive' is like hunger or sex drive—it has its own rhythm and cannot be forced
Why you should not force yourself to sleep earlier
Why you should force yourself to wake up earlier
How light and movement are the key to waking up

Links & Resources:

Sleepy Head Clinic

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Stephanie Romiszewski has a degree in psychology and behavioral sleep medicine. Her interest in sleep disorders began while studying chronobiology, during which time she assisted sleep research at Harvard Medical School.

Stephanie has worked in NHS clinical sleep disorder centres across the UK, diagnosing and treating a number of sleep issues, such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, parasomnias, insomnia, movement disorders and circadian rhythm disorders.

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1:18.0	Of all the health challenges that I've had in my life, the biggest one I've had is my sleep. I've been a terrible sleeper for as long as I can remember.
1:22.0	I spent most of my 20s and much of my 30s sleeping five-ish hours a night, sometimes
1:28.1	four hours a night. A huge night for me would be six or seven hours a night. In my 30s I got a little
1:33.4	bit better I was sleeping maybe five to six hours a night and I hit 40 this year and I'm
1:38.9	doing better than I've ever done before. It sounds so much about quantity although for me the quantity was certainly an issue because I was so sleep deprived, but more than that it's about quality and now I consistently get six, seven, once and while even, eight hours of sleep.
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