Best of Think '25: Don’t worry if you can’t sleep
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4.7 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Sleep tracking technology can tell you how long you slumbered, but it can’t get you there. Jennifer Senior, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss sleep anxiety, why we find it so hard to get a good night’s rest, and why hunting for the best how-to articles on the topic might be making things worse. Her article is “Why Can’t Americans Sleep?”
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| 0:00.0 | Have you heard about OMG? Yes. This is a website the New York Times wirecutter featured as one of their most popular gifts. And for good reason, it presents new findings from the largest ever research study into women's pleasure and intimacy. In partnership with researchers at Yale and at Indiana University, they asked tens of thousands of women what they |
| 0:21.6 | wished they and their partners had discovered sooner. They found the patterns in those |
| 0:26.2 | discoveries and all that wisdom and intimacy is organized as hundreds of short videos, |
| 0:31.6 | animations, and how-toes. When you see OMG, yes, you might understand why wirecutter recommended it. |
| 0:38.2 | It is warm, honest, and has regular women talking about real experiences. |
| 0:42.7 | It's truly eye-opening. |
| 0:44.8 | See for yourself at omgyes.com. |
| 0:47.3 | That's OMGS.com. When you find yourself awake well past the hour when you hope to be dreaming, |
| 1:03.7 | you know that doom scrolling the headlines will not relax you. |
| 1:07.1 | If you search instead for articles about sleep, those might be even worse. |
| 1:11.4 | From KERA in Dallas, this is think. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm Chris Boyd. |
| 1:15.4 | Regularly missing out on slumber is associated with a wide-ranging spectrum of health consequences, |
| 1:20.9 | from memory problems to diabetes to cancer. |
| 1:23.9 | But no matter how thoroughly we believe in the importance of sleep, |
| 1:26.7 | we cannot just will ourselves to do it. |
| 1:29.5 | Sleep tracker technology that promises to help us rest better turns every night into a kind of test situation. |
| 1:35.5 | And as my guest can tell us from her years of wrestling with chronic insomnia, the sense of failing at sleep only adds to the misery of being awake most of the night. |
| 1:44.5 | Jennifer Sr. is a staff writer at The Atlantic where you can read her article, |
| 1:48.2 | Why Can't Americans Sleep? All this week, we're listening to our favorite shows of 2025, |
| 1:54.1 | and this one popped to mind because I know that many of us struggle to get a solid eight hours |
| 1:59.6 | of sleep a night. And as we enter a new |
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