Hey everyone, it's K-Sunga here. I just want to let you know that we've launched a brand

new call and advice podcast called Dear Headspace. Each week the headspace teachers, along

with some amazing new friends, are answering your questions about relationships, work,

life, mindfulness, and just about everything else. It's so different from anything we've

ever created and we're so excited for you to hear it. Dear Headspace comes out every

Tuesday on the Headspace app and anywhere that you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

Hi, it's Eve here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Sunday evening. I hope you've had a

lovely weekend, but you might be wondering why we're here on Sunday night. Well, it's a special

week here at Radio Headspace as all week we're going to be talking about sleep. Now sleep is something

we all need but probably are not getting enough of. Or the sleep that we are getting isn't particularly

restful. And just the other night I was reminded how awful it is when you can't get to sleep.

I'd spoken to my mum earlier in the day, she's in Scotland and I'm here in LA and I've not been

able to get home and see her since COVID started. She's on her own now and had some surgery recently

and it's been a really difficult recovery process. Anyway, she'd had a really difficult day and I was

feeling really worried and lay in bed just going over and over in my mind all the what-ifs and the

ifs and these and I was feeling guilty that I wasn't there. Thankfully, after some time of

ruminating about all of the negative things that were happening, I was able to remind myself

of some of the techniques I've learned over the years and sleep did eventually come.

But it really reminded me of when I didn't have those tools and how things can very easily spiral.

I used to be a terrible sleeper. My mind were just not simply quiet down and it's because I never

gave it the chance to. I was always in doing mode, working ridiculously long hours, checking emails

well into the night and then checking them again as soon as I would wake up convinced that if I didn't,

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