EP39: Michael Breus - Overcoming Chronic Insomnia

Live Happy Now

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this special podcast series we have partnered with top well-being experts to help coach five members of our Live Happy team on how to make better choices and build habits that lead to more fulfilling lives. Through this series we'll tackle topics like improving communication with others, managing negative thinking, overcoming chronic insomnia, setting life goals and learning to unplug from work. In this episode Live Happy magazine Science Editor Paula Felps talks with Michael Breus, Ph.D., a Clinical Psychologist as well as a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. As the subject of sleep continues to gain momentum in our sleep-deprived society, Michael has become a widely recognized leader in this ever-evolving field and serves on the clinical advisory board of The Dr. Oz Show. Dedicated to raising awareness of both medically diagnosed sleep disorders and the importance of quality sleep for all, Michael is on a mission to develop innovative education and communication programs.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a happy place.
0:11.5	This is the Live Happy Now podcast.
0:13.4	Hello, I'm your host, J.R. Houston.
0:15.1	Glad you are making us a part of your week, wherever you are in the world.
0:19.1	Also want to thank our partner, Live Happy magazine.
0:21.8	The new issue is available now. Jillian Michaels on the front, all kinds of great information
0:25.9	in there for you. We will have more on that coming up in just a moment. Want to thank our other
0:30.2	partner, Life Reimagined. Their website, LifeReimagined.org slash happy. It's got all kinds of
0:35.7	things for you to try out as you make that journey toward your peak happiness.
0:39.6	As you awaken to the power of happiness, so to your dreams.
0:43.0	So what's next?
0:44.2	Well, find out more at life reimagined.org slash happy.
0:48.3	And we are joined as always by our Live Happy co-founder, C.O.
0:52.4	and editorial director, Deborah Heist. And we're talking in this
0:56.1	episode of the series about overcoming chronic insomnia. And if you read the article,
1:01.4	Shelly Levitt, our editor at large, was the subject of this particular one. What was she dealing
1:06.6	with that caused her to be such a perfect candidate for this? Well, when we started talking about the 90 Days to a Happier You piece several months ago, Shelly was really the first person to volunteer, and she said, look, I never sleep. All night. I have a lot of trouble sleeping at night. And, you know, we started looking at it, and we did a little bit of research, and that's a very, very common problem. So she just just put herself out there and said this is something i'd really like to do um but also you know shelly shelley's
1:33.0	largely responsible for pulling the entire 90 days to a happier you piece together so uh giving her a shout
1:38.2	out there it was a great great um article and i think this series of podcast is wonderful and so so, you know, let's learn a little bit more about
1:46.2	how to sleep better because I think it's something a lot of us can benefit from. Oh, absolutely.
1:51.0	Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps had this conversation with Michael Bruce, who's a clinical
1:55.7	psychologist and both a diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a fellow of the
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