Anxiety before you go to bed
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this Owning It Real Time audio guide, I step through the experience of anxiety at the end of the day, before you go to bed. There are a few factors at play here that give rise to anxiety and understanding them before soothing the body can really help to settle me down for a rest. I hope it will be the same for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. |
| 0:13.0 | Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolineforin.substack.com. Thank you. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, welcome to owning it real time. |
| 0:23.6 | In this audio guide, I'm going to step through the feeling of anxiety at the end of the day as you're getting ready for bed. |
| 0:31.6 | As always, this is what I've learned, what's helped me, and it's precisely what I remind myself of |
| 0:38.3 | when I find myself in a similar position. |
| 0:43.3 | There are a few things to remember about anxiety at the end of the day. |
| 0:48.3 | To begin, I want to take it back to basics and understand the hormones we're dealing with |
| 0:53.0 | and how they changed throughout |
| 0:54.6 | the day because this was just so helpful for me. Each day we produce cortisol first thing in the |
| 1:01.4 | morning and that's the stress hormone. Each evening we produce melatonin, the sleep hormone. |
| 1:08.3 | We produce a stress hormone to help us wake up. We produce a sleep hormone to help us sleep. When things are balanced, we produce the stress hormone to help us wake up. We produce a sleep hormone to help |
| 1:12.6 | us sleep. When things are balanced and working well for us, our natural production of cortisol |
| 1:18.0 | will have tapered off by the end of the day and our melatonin hormone would have taken over. |
| 1:23.0 | This is the normal and the ideal interplay of hormones. However, if you've been really stressed out about |
| 1:29.2 | something or experiencing more heightened anxiety in general, you're probably dealing with elevated |
| 1:34.4 | levels of cortisol, and as such it can be harder for that melatonin to do its job. This was |
| 1:41.8 | the case for me when my anxiety was at its worst. My cortisol was in overdrive |
| 1:46.0 | and that meant the melatonin didn't get much of a look in. So I found it very hard to settle down, |
| 1:51.0 | especially when I didn't understand what was happening in my body, or why. By becoming aware of what we're dealing with, |
| 1:57.0 | we can do certain things to help bring down that stress response, restoring balance to those hormones. |
| 2:02.6 | Ideally, if you're finding yourself more anxious at the end of each day, you will address what might be driving it overall. |
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