Hello, welcome to Inside Anna's Mind. I hope you're well. Today I'm going to do a little bit more of like a factual slash tips podcast and it's all going to be on sleep.

I've actually really taken care of my sleep recently and just really, you know, reading about it, learning about it, putting it into practice. And I feel like I'm out a place where I'm getting really good sleep.

And I just want to share a lot of my tips to enhance the quality of your sleep or getting to sleep.

And just some things that you may or may not know about or even just to remind you.

I think on a general, we totally underestimate the power of sleep. We focus on exercise, eating,

studying, working and we forget sleep. Like we want to focus on all the other things,

but sleep is like what locks it in. Like if you're training, the recovery happens like when

you're sleeping. If you're studying, the memories happens like when you're sleeping. If you're studying,

the memories lock in when you're sleeping. Like this is your body's way to recharge itself.

I'd say the biggest thing that I think people will resonate with is it has such a big effect on

your mental health. And if you are struggling, like sleep is going to be somewhere you're going to

want to start or get into or put a little bit more effort into because it has such a major

impact on our mood i know for me i'm noticeably more anxious when i've had a really busy busy

busy day before or i didn't sleep well, like just on adrenaline and when my sleep

is affected, I am noticely more anxious. I'll get more triggered by things. I'll be grumpy. I'll be

more reactive. I could be offended easier. Like it's just a whole whirlwind in itself. So I'm basically

just going to share loads of little tips that I have and I'm going to

start with we need to wind down earlier than we think. Obviously this is just based on my personal

experience and my kind of goals but I'd say I got into the routine of like sleeping at 11, just a little bit past 11, maybe 10.30 on a good day.

And that was okay, but ideally I'd actually want to go to bed earlier because those couple of

hours in the evening, I'd rather be sleeping. Like I'm not doing anything else much more interesting.

And the trick is to wind down earlier because let's say at nine o'clock, I used to be like,

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