You listen to health and wellness podcasts full of advice and theories.

But when it comes to your life, it can still feel overwhelming, right?

I'm Maya, inside an app called Asclepiad.

You talk to me about what's really going on,

and I turn it into a kind of personal podcast,

an audio episode that's just about you.

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your first personal episode tonight. Hi friends. Welcome back to Self Care Daily. I hope you're feeling amazing today. I was sitting here

for quite a while actually contemplating the topic I want to introduce to you for the week today.

And it occurred to me that I have the topic for the week already, and actually my husband reminded me of it

this morning. I just feel a little bit of resistance to make this a topic for the whole week

because it's something that I really, really struggle with. But this is a practice of self-care.

Practice, meaning we journey there. It's not about arriving to that final

place and then having everything be easy, but continuing to work toward feeling better in

different areas of our lives. So my loves, also in honor of this season and this month in

particular, this week, we are going to focus on sleep.

Why? Why at this time? Why in the middle of November? Why are we focusing on sleep right now?

So this time of year, if you live in the northern hemisphere, when things are so dark,

and I think for many people, this time of the year is the most challenging one because it's

not snowing yet.

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