Try This: Stop trying to fall asleep

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

“Try This” from The Washington Post is a series of audio courses designed to jump-start the parts of life where we can all use a few pointers — with pithy, snackable solutions you can easily use. Host Cristina Quinn brings exactly the right amount of motivation with her endearing enthusiasm and the curiosity to learn along with you. Each course is a quick and practical guide that provides new perspectives on the kinds of hurdles we all share. If you’ve been searching for the right place to start, Try This.

In the first class of our course on how to sleep better, learn why worrying about not falling asleep can make things worse. There are steps you can take during the day that can help lessen the anxiety at night.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Allison, and I'm back for a minute to tell you about an awesome new audio experience that I think you're going to love.
0:07.0	It's a series of new audio courses from the Washington Post called Try This.
0:13.1	Each course is three to five episodes
0:15.2	where we teach you some refreshing new tips
0:17.7	for the kinds of problems we all tend to have.
0:20.3	Like the first course is on how to get better sleep. I think a lot of us could use that and the best part is it's quick
0:26.8	The episodes or classes if you will are each 15 minutes or less I've been working behind the scenes with my
0:33.8	colleague who's the host of this show Christina Quinn and it's pretty much
0:37.5	impossible not to immediately feel like she's the one you want taking you on
0:41.8	this journey.
0:43.2	Anyway, enough from me.
0:44.6	I want you to actually hear the first episode.
0:47.0	And then follow, try this, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:50.2	All right, here it goes.
0:55.0	Hey, I'm Christina Quinn. Welcome to Try This from the Washington Post.
0:58.0	Try This is a series of audio courses to help you take on common challenges and learn something new without having to make a big time commitment
1:08.0	And I'll be learning with you each course will have two to five classes or episodes.
1:13.0	This first course, which is about sleep, will have five.
1:16.0	We'll cover sleep performance anxiety,
1:19.0	how to manage those nagging thoughts that keep you up,
1:22.0	what to do when you wake up in the middle of the night,
1:25.0	why sleep is like pizza dough, and finally the melatonin factor.
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