The Problem of Sleeplessness
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Why do so many people struggle to sleep, even when they’re exhausted? Jeff explores the problem of sleeplessness and the hidden spiritual and emotional factors that keep us awake at night. Through Scripture, Church wisdom, and real-life examples, Jeff shows how worry, anxiety, and misplaced priorities rob us of peace and how turning our hearts back to God restores us.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:07.3 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:12.4 | This is show 462, the problem of sleeplessness. |
| 0:22.9 | Well, hello again, and thanks for joining me. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm Jeff Kaven's day after Christmas. |
| 0:29.0 | What a day, huh? |
| 0:30.8 | House is a mess, food laying out, treats and candy and pastries and everything else, |
| 0:37.3 | and a lot of wrapping paper. |
| 0:39.5 | But in the middle of it all, I'm going to talk today about a subject that a lot of people are |
| 0:46.0 | struggling with, and that is sleeplessness, sleeplessness, the problem of sleeplessness in our |
| 0:52.4 | country. And a lot of times studies show that it's in the midst of the |
| 0:57.0 | holidays that people's sleep is is really challenged and it's upsetting because their schedules are |
| 1:05.8 | different. They're traveling and eating so much sugar and things and staying up late watching television and all that that they |
| 1:13.1 | have a hard time sleeping. But besides that, and Merry Christmas, besides that, this show could |
| 1:20.2 | be listened to it any time during the year because I think as a whole, we are really a people |
| 1:26.4 | who struggle with sleep. |
| 1:27.8 | And sleep is so very important in our lives. |
| 1:31.6 | Sleep is great for weight loss. |
| 1:35.3 | Sleep is great for a sense of well-being in your thinking. |
| 1:39.9 | Sleep contributes to autophagy, which is the cleansing of the cells and the rebuilding of the structures within. |
| 1:49.9 | It's just very, very good. |
| 1:53.1 | Not to mention, it just feels good. |
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