Category Archives: Sleep
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How Sleep Affects Your Pain Level & What to do About it
Posted on August 4, 2019 by Michelle Doetsch in Health and Wellness, SleepDo you ever wake up in the morning feeling worse than when you went to bed? Maybe you feel stiff first thing in the morning, but as you start moving through your day, the stiffness dissipates. Maybe you notice that it takes less stress to make you crabby, which then gives you a headache. Or […]
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How to Minimize the Stress of the Spring Time Change
Posted on March 4, 2016 by Michelle Doetsch in SleepI admit it: I’m a bonafide night owl and daylight saving time used to kick my *ss. It still does if I don’t plan for it. This year, daylight saving time* starts on March 13th. This time change throws more people for a loop than the fall change, since we’re essentially losing an hour of sleep. […]
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How Sleep Can Help You Manage Your Stress
Posted on February 13, 2015 by Michelle Doetsch in Sleep, StressStress vs Sleep There are a lot of articles out there on how stress can keep you from sleeping well, and almost everyone has experienced this at one time or another. After a stressful day you lay in bed with your mind racing, waiting for sleep that doesn’t come soon enough. When it does come, […]
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Your Stress-relief Guide to Daylight-Saving Time
Posted on March 7, 2014 by Michelle Doetsch in SleepAs if this winter hasn’t been brutal enough, in 2 days time we have to set our clocks ahead for daylight-saving time. I swear we just set them back, didn’t we? On the upside, it’ll stay light longer in the evening. On the downside, we all lose an hour of sleep and many people will […]
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Sleep Better With These 6 Essential Oils
Posted on July 26, 2012 by Michelle Doetsch in Aromatherapy, SleepYou’re lying in bed unable to sleep. There are 7 hours before you need to get up. Now there are only 5 hours left and you’re still awake. What do you do?? Well, if you’re like most people, it depends on whether this is a frequent or infrequent occurrence. But regardless of the frequency of […]
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Too Stressed to Sleep?
Posted on July 19, 2012 by Michelle Doetsch in Sleep, StressStress is one of the biggest causes of insomnia today. The stress response readies your body for action, the “fight or flight” response, by making it incapable of rest or relaxation. This causes you to be sleep deprived which increases your stress level and decreases your ability to handle that stress. It’s a vicious cycle. […]
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How To Sleep Better When You Have Chronic Pain
Posted on July 12, 2012 by Michelle Doetsch in Chronic Pain, SleepYou know how hard it is to sleep when you’re in pain. Imagine how little sleep you’d get if you had chronic or daily pain. I’m yawning just thinking about it. There are a lot of reasons that chronic pain affects your sleep, including the obvious one: it hurts. But even if you don’t have […]
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