My Sleep Has Been Wrecked. Here’s How I’m Starting Over

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

My sleep has been wrecked since I moved. Last year I had the perfect setup: a bed that supported me, a routine that worked, and deep, consistent rest. Now? I’m on a futon, waking up at 4 a.m. to take my daughter to work, and dragging through the day.

n this episode I'm sharing:

Why fall naturally shifts your body’s sleep rhythm (and how to work with it)
The basics I’m returning to: earlier bedtimes, wind-down rituals, and morning light
Tangible adjustments that help: showers or baths at night, better pillows, and bedding that supports you
The tools I’m using to stay accountable
Why great sleep is not a luxury for Black women, but a necessity

If your sleep has been off, you’ll leave this episode with practical ways to reset and reclaim real rest this season.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, what's going on? You're listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is Bree. I am the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care. Brown Girl Self Care is a platform in space of intentional healing, joy, rest, and abundance for black women. Listen, let's go ahead and get right on into today's episode.
0:22.2	I want to ask you a question. When was the last time you woke up in the morning and you
0:28.0	actually felt refreshed? Hashtag blessed. Like, honestly, you felt rested. Like, you were not
0:35.7	dragging yourself out of bed. You didn't hit snooze
0:37.9	50, 11 times. You not, you wasn't running on fumes. You truly felt like you got a great
0:45.1	night of restoration. I'm going to tell you a truth right now. I'm on the sleep struggle bus.
0:51.5	And it's shocking to me because I haven't been in this place in a long
0:58.7	minute. Now, before I moved to Arkansas, I feel like in California, one of the biggest things
1:05.4	I miss right now, as I am now living in Arkansas, is that I miss my bed. I told y'all, in case you missed it, that now I don't have a bedroom.
1:16.0	I don't have a bed.
1:17.3	I am sleeping on a futon.
1:19.7	It is uncomfortable.
1:21.4	I don't have my bedding.
1:23.1	I don't have my sheets.
1:24.2	I don't have my pillows.
1:25.5	I don't have any of those things that really made my bed
1:31.3	a, in my bedroom, a haven, a place where I, like a soft place to land. I don't have that right now.
1:40.5	And I feel like it has thrown, kind of like throwing my world topsy-turvy as
1:45.7	as crazy as that may sound. But that's my truth right now. And on top of that, I have been taking
1:52.3	my daughter to work. And unfortunately, she's going to work at like 4 a.m. 5 a.m. a lot of mornings.
2:00.3	And so I'm coming back home. I'm struggling to get back
2:04.8	to sleep. Like, child, it's a mess. And so I was thinking that, you know, because we are now
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