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So I first started having trouble sleeping when,

I guess I was probably in my late 20s and my boyfriend's sister at the time, who was my best friend at 33 was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she had four children under the age of eight at the time and that

became a very stressful situation. I'm not a mother but I have a little taste of what motherly

and household and duties and stress of life can happen

and I think that's really when my sleep trouble started.

Life stressors, like what Leah just described,

are at the root of most all sleep issues.

And just like Leah, most people turn

to pharmaceutical sleep aids for help.

So I would go back and forth between Ambien or

Xanax just to come take the edge off or Lorazepam.

I had a friend that's a nurse practitioner and she's like oh I take

Larazepam every night try that it's better than ambient and I know this sounds

so horrible and I can't even believe I'm talking about it like the hopefully because

there was a time when I would just be mortified that anyone would know.

But so yeah, pretty much every night for seven, eight, nine years.

Leah was able to stop using these sleep aids after finding Doc Parsley's sleep

cocktail. And of course I was skeptical as anybody who has really bad sleep issues and

have been you know dependent on pharmaceutical grade products to help them sleep would be and I

started drinking a sleep cocktail every night and it probably took I don't know three or

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