S3 EP7: You're Stressed & Not Sleeping - We Can Help
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Quality sleep is crucial to good health, and in times of stress, sleep is especially important and can also be especially difficult to achieve. In our last episode, we discussed the importance of sleep and the detrimental effects that sleep deprivation can have on your health. In today’s episode, we talk about the importance of prioritizing sleep and strategies that you can use to get quality sleep in your life. Listen in to hear us talk about bedtime routines, sleep technology, sleep medications, and more.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Prioritizing your sleep
- Starting with a good night’s sleep instead of playing catch-up with sleep
- Prioritizing sleep for children as well as adults
- Thinking of sleep as an appointment
- Setting an alarm for your bedtime routine
- Setting a nighttime routine
- The importance of routine for your brain
- What a bedtime routine looks like
- Breathing techniques for rest
- The link between sleep deprivation and mental health disorders
- Sleep technology and tools
- Sleep medications
- What to do when you wake up and can’t fall back to sleep
- How night shift work affects your body
- Nightmares and night terrors
- Napping
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| 0:00.0 | But actually, the behavior therapist suggests that if you wake up and you cannot fall asleep, |
| 0:04.9 | the first thing that you should do is get out of bed. |
| 0:08.5 | Get out of bed. |
| 0:09.8 | Walk around. |
| 0:10.4 | Do some breathing exercises. |
| 0:11.9 | Do some stretching. |
| 0:13.3 | Do something else, anything else. |
| 0:15.5 | But do not stay in your bed and worry about getting back to sleep because it's not going to be helpful. |
| 0:25.1 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people |
| 0:35.2 | achieve their fitness goals? We are an army of hardworking women, |
| 0:41.3 | changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:44.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, |
| 0:47.3 | we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well |
| 0:51.3 | a part of your life. |
| 0:53.3 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 0:58.3 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh |
| 1:06.2 | Save Lives podcast. I'm Rachel. And I'm Kelsey. Less than ideal conditions this week. Yes. So if we sound a little |
| 1:15.3 | bit different this week, we don't have our, yeah, because that's because we feel far away. |
| 1:21.6 | We are far away. If you hear distance in our voices, then you know. |
| 1:33.0 | We just don't have our normal equipment this week and we are not together. We are in quarantine, which is we are recording a little ahead of what you hear. |
| 1:42.4 | You hear us behind. |
| 1:43.4 | So who knows what the state of the country will be by the |
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