Waking with anxiety and can’t get back to sleep

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shan Vanderbilt
0:15.8	here with my good friend and co-host Ananga Civier. This week we're
0:20.6	responding to questions from our private Facebook group about waking with anxiety in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep.
0:29.0	This is not any fun for anyone, and there are so many things that can affect our sleep.
0:36.0	Welcome back, Ananga.
0:38.0	Hey Shen.
0:39.0	Good to be with you for another episode of Anxiety Slayer?
0:44.0	What are some of the things that affect our sleep?
0:48.0	Caffeine, which sometimes we don't realize is in different medications, it can be in pain relief, obviously it's in energy
0:56.9	drinks, tea and coffee, but sometimes it's in things we don't realize it's in, and the thing
1:02.3	with caffeine is that it tends to
1:04.8	accumulate in the body during the day it has quite a long reach time-wise in our system
1:10.7	so any caffeine we take into the body after midday can still be there in the evening and affect us getting to sleep and make us more antsy, more awake.
1:21.0	So caffeine want to watch out for eating late, eating heavy meals in the evening.
1:28.8	That can give a discomfort and energy to our digestive system as the body is processing food.
1:36.0	While we're trying to rest that can be a wakeful thing.
1:39.0	It can cause some acid or discomfort in the body.
1:42.0	Working late, that makes our mind energised and it can make us stressed or we can find that we're chewing stuff over.
1:50.0	As we go to sleep, we might still be chewing over the problems of the day.
1:54.4	The more peaceful we can be when we head to bed and more peaceful as sleep will be.
2:00.3	It's also a good idea to be mindful of what kind of entertainment you're taking in before you go to bed?
2:10.0	What kind of television, movies, dramas, what are you watching, what are you bringing
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