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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk about

how a good night's sleep can help to ease anxiety. And I was actually thinking about my own

sleep after a night that I had a delicious dark chocolate truffle.

And I don't normally eat chocolate and I certainly don't usually eat it late at night,

but my daughter had just come home from a trip and she was sharing these delicious chocolate truffles

And I had one it was small believe me. I can't imagine if it was big because I didn't sleep well at all. I wasn't anxious and I didn't feel really

distraught but I really felt tired in the morning. So when I got up and found this article in my inbox I said, oh my

gosh this was so timely and the information here was definitely things I wanted to share with you guys about sleep.

So the article was entitled How Deep Sleep Can Sothe Your Anxious Brain, and I will have

link to that in the show notes so you could read the whole article yourself

and that was written by Yasmin Anwar.

Let's start right in with the article here. The article says when it comes to

managing anxiety disorders, William Shakespeare's Macbeth had it right when he

referred to sleep as the bomb of hurt minds. I have to agree

with that. The bomb of hurt minds, yes, you feel so much better once you've gotten some sleep and the

article says when a full night of slumber stabilizes emotions a sleepless night

can trigger up to 30% rise in anxiety levels.

And that is from new research from UC Berkeley.

So the researchers have found that the type of sleep that is most apt to calm and reset an anxious brain is deep sleep.

This is otherwise known as non-rapped eye movement or N-rem. It's slow wave sleep.

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