Okay, Daddy Gang, welcome back to another cozy Sunday session. It is officially fall. I am so, so happy that we have finally made it here. This is my favorite time of year. I have pulled out all of my favorite sweaters. I'm basically only wearing the Fuzzy Henry Crocs collab. If you guys haven't shopped them,

they're actually the coziest slippers that you'll ever own. I am drinking tea. I'm rewatching

Gilmore Girls and Grey's Anatomy. Like life is good. Kind of. Kind of. I was thinking about it.

Like I don't know about you guys guys but as fun as this time of

year is i feel like once you really hit stride of this time of year we kind of all go into this

full on sprint to the holidays and work just gets crazy everyone's trying to get as much as possible

done before the new year. And we kind of

start mentally preparing for all of the family time coming up, which, you know, we love,

but it's also a lot. And I've definitely been feeling it. Also on top of all of the craziness of

life lately, I wanted to talk about something that I have

been struggling with, which I usually don't struggle with, which is I have been having the hardest

time falling asleep. There is no one that loves sleep more than me. And once I'm in the REM,

your girl is gone. But from the moment I lay down, I feel like I have

just been tossing and turning for hours. I also try everything. Okay. I'm flipping my pillow.

I'm adjusting the temperature, turning on a sound machine. I'm doing breathing exercises. I've downloaded

like the calm apps that make you, you know,

breathe in for five seconds, breathe out for five seconds. Like nothing is helping. And it just feels

like as soon as I'm trying to lay down and sleep, my brain suddenly goes into overdrive.

And it feels like my mind is almost like saving every single worry for that

exact moment. My to-do list, my work stress, the text that I never responded to last week.

Like even random things in that moment hit me. I'm like, am I being a good friend lately. Like,

when is the last time that I called my sister? Like all of these thoughts are just racing through my head. And then, if that wasn't bad enough, then the double anxiety kind of kicks in because now I'm just stressed that I'm not sleeping. And I'm like, I've got to be up early. I have work in the morning. Like, I need energy tomorrow. If I don't sleep now, I'm completely fucked.

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