444: How to Sleep Better | Diane Macedo

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sleep may be the apex predator of healthy habits, so why are so many of us getting terrible sleep?

Guest Diane Macedo launched a very detailed personal investigation in order to fix her sleeping habits and joins us for the first episode of a month-long “Mental Health Reboot” series we’re doing to mark Mental Health Awareness Month.

Diane Macedo is the author of the new book The Sleep Fix: Practical, Proven, and Surprising Solutions for Insomnia, Snoring, Shift Work, and More. As an ABC News anchor and correspondent, she appears on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and Nightline. She’s also the daytime anchor for ABC News Live.

In this episode we talk about:

Key signs that you’re not getting enough sleep
Do sleeping pills really work
When and how to find a sleep specialist
How to deal with performance anxiety around sleep
The difference between sleep deprivation and insomnia
Mindfulness and sleep
And the biggest sleep myths

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:06.6	I'm Dan Harris.
0:11.2	Hey gang, if you're not sleeping well, it's harder to do anything you care about.
0:16.2	It's harder to get healthier, to be more focused and productive, to be happier, to be more
0:20.3	successful, to have good relationships.
0:22.9	All of it.
0:24.4	Sleep may be the apex predator of healthy habits.
0:28.5	And yet so many of us are getting terrible sleep because we don't prioritize it or because
0:32.7	our work lives or our children make it seemingly impossible because maybe we're trying so
0:38.2	hard to get more sleep that we are in our heads about it.
0:41.8	Or because we've told ourselves a whole story about how we're just not people who sleep
0:45.4	well and so we just live with it.
0:47.5	Today, you're going to meet somebody who decided she was not going to live with it any
0:50.9	longer and she launched an extremely detailed personal investigation in order to fix it.
0:56.5	And luckily for us, she is a journalist.
0:59.5	So she documented the whole thing and gathered extremely useful, heavily vetted information
1:05.0	and insights we can all use.
1:07.8	Before we dive in, I should say that this is the first episode in a month-long series
1:11.7	we're doing to mark mental health awareness month, May.
1:16.2	The statistics are not pretty.
1:18.2	Four in 10 adults reported symptoms of anxiety or depression during the pandemic that's
1:23.4	up from one in 10 before and the pandemic has hit teenagers and young adults especially
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