Hey, everyone back to the love and relationships podcast. I'm your host, Deborah Felita,

and I'm so glad you're tuning into these candid conversations about love, sex, dating,

singleness, and marriage, as well as mental and emotional health. For those of you who don't know me,

I'm a licensed professional counselor and author of four books.

I also run the popular relationship advice blog, True Lovedates.com, reaching millions of people with the message that healthy people make healthy relationships.

If you've tuned into the podcast before, you know it's a hotline style show, meaning people call in or write in with their questions, and I answer them on this show in short, practical, bite-sized answers.

If you have a question that you want me to answer on the show, send it by email or voice memo to Deborah at true lovedates.com or check out my podcast page,

tru-lovedates.com slash love and relationships. And I'll do my best to get it answered on one of the

episodes. So let's get started. Today's question comes from Mike from Dallas. Hey, Deborah, I have been a long-time listener of the podcast, and I have a question for you about sleep.

Lately, I've realized that my sleep is not as good as it should be. I'm waking up a lot more often than I want to and sometimes really struggling to

fall asleep at night. Do you have any suggestions for me on getting better sleep?

I am so glad this question came up because this is a very important topic and one that's really

close to my heart. I always say that I know

that things are off in my body when I start struggling with sleep. Now, it's one thing to struggle

with sleep for like a night here and there. You know, for most people, it's not uncommon

to struggle with sleep every now and

again. So maybe once a month or twice a month, you kind of struggle to fall asleep and it's a little

bit harder to get comfortable or you're waking up more often than you want to or maybe you feel

like you haven't even slept a wink throughout the night. Don't you hate those nights where you're looking at the alarm clock and it's just going from

1 o'clock to 2 o'clock to 3 in the morning to 4 in the morning?

And you just feel like you've seen every hour on the clock.

I absolutely hate those nights.

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