#438 Sleep Like a Pro: Secrets for Better Nights and Brighter Days
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
How are you really sleeping these days? Be honest—are you waking up feeling refreshed, or is it more like dragging yourself out of bed and powering through the day on fumes? If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Sleep is a huge part of feeling like your best self, but it’s so easy to overlook.
In this podcast episode, I’m sitting down with my friend, Dr. Michelle Okun, a health psychologist and sleep scientist. We’re talking about how sleep impacts literally everything—your mood, your stress levels, your health, and even your energy. We’re diving into the science of why sleep matters and the simple things you can do to feel like your best self again. Don’t worry, your sleep helpline is here!
So, grab a cup of tea, cozy up, and let’s talk about how to get the rest you need to feel amazing. You deserve this! 💖
Timestamps:
- 00:00 – Tired and Stressed? Let’s Fix That!
- 00:41 – Meet Dr. Michelle Okun
- 02:12 – The Surprising Ways Sleep Impacts Your Life
- 06:48 – Stress, Cortisol, and Sleep
- 09:56 – How Stress Keeps You Awake (and How to Fix It)
- 19:42 – Common Causes of Sleep Issues
- 23:40 – When to Consider a Sleep Study
- 32:09 – Practical Sleep Tips That Actually Work
- 50:08 – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
- 53:50 – Resources to Improve Your Life
I hope this podcast was as helpful for you as it was for me. I learned so much from Dr. Okun! If you’re ready to take the next step or just curious about what might be holding you back—whether it’s sleep-related or just something in your overall wellness—check out my free What’s Holding You Back? Quiz.
Gaining clarity and self-awareness around the places in my life where I needed some extra love and attention was a huge game changer for me. This quiz will give you the same insights so you can start taking steps to thrive in your life.
If you have questions or want to chat with me more about this, I’d love for you to join me for this week’s livestream on Thursday at 12 PM MT on Instagram and YouTube! I’m diving even deeper into how to improve your sleep and answering your questions live.
Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe and hit the bell! I’m here every week sharing insights and resources with you so you can achieve the love, happiness, and success that you deserve. Let’s figure this out together, friend!
Xoxo
PS: If you know someone who’s running on empty and could use this advice, send this podcast their way. Sleep is life-changing, and we all deserve to wake up feeling amazing! 😴✨
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| 0:00.0 | So, raise your hand if you have ever felt unusually moody or stressed or maybe so scatterbrained. |
| 0:08.4 | You forgot while you walked into the room. |
| 0:16.8 | You're not alone in this. |
| 0:18.9 | There is a chance that your daytime struggles, things like |
| 0:23.6 | snappy moods or jangled nerves or fuzzy focus, could actually be related to what is going on |
| 0:32.8 | when you lay your head down at night on your pillow. A good quality sleep and a good continuous sleep is really important for your overall health. |
| 0:42.3 | Your brain sleeps to clear out all the toxins that we create on a daily basis. |
| 0:49.1 | On today's episode of love, happiness, and success, we are doing a deep dive into the relationship between the quality of your sleep and how you feel in your life day to day. |
| 1:04.2 | It's modifiable. Unlike a lot of things you can't do anything about yourself, you can fix your sleep. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm sitting down with health psychologist and |
| 1:12.6 | sleep scientist, Dr. Michelle Oaken. Welcome, Dr. Oaken. I'm so glad you are here to share your |
| 1:21.2 | wisdom with us today because there is a lot to unpack, isn't there? There is. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm beyond excited to be able to talk to your audience about sleep. |
| 1:34.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:34.7 | I have to tell you, just personally, I was so inspired and excited because, and you and I first |
| 1:41.3 | met, when you were so kind to come into my practice growing self and do some internal continuing education trainings with the therapist on my team on the subject of sleep. |
| 1:54.9 | And I learned a lot from this short training. And of course, you train therapists all over the country. That's a big |
| 2:03.7 | piece of what you do. But you helped my team and I understand some of the new research and |
| 2:10.6 | emerging understanding about the deep relationship between what happens when you sleep in terms of the physiological processes |
| 2:21.6 | and how that impacts the way that we feel day to day, like way above and beyond, like just |
| 2:29.1 | feeling tired, like we all get that. But maybe we could even just start there. Could you just share the key points |
| 2:37.0 | of this science that you have come to understand that is really linking the quality of our |
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