Why Sleep Might Be the Missing Piece in Your Mental Health || H&K with Christine Lawler

About Progress

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Licensed therapist and sleep expert Christine Lawler shares the surprising connection between sleep and mental health—including postpartum depression, anxiety, and burnout. In this powerful conversation, we break down why sleep isn't just self-care—it's survival. If you've been stuck, exhausted, or told “this is just adulthood,” this is the wake-up call you didn’t know you needed. Listen to the full episode here: https://www.aboutprogress.com/blog/christine-lawler-sleep-training Sign up as a Supporter to get access to our private, premium, ad-free podcast, More Personal. Episodes air each Friday! More for Moms Conference Leave a rating and review Check out my ⁠workshops⁠! Follow About Progress on YOUTUBE! Book Launch Committee Free DSL Training Full Show Notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.7	and or motivation you need for the weekend.
1:20.1	So I've been practicing therapy for 10 years, and I kind of started realizing that my therapy
1:25.6	clients that were the most stuck, making the
1:28.8	slowest progress and having the most difficulty, just in all aspects of their life, were not
1:34.8	sleeping well. And having suffered from insomnia occasionally myself, I felt like the best thing
1:41.0	I could do was just validate them and be like, yeah, welcome to adulthood.
1:44.5	None of us sleep, right?
1:45.8	Yeah.
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