Episode Details

Glean reasons and tips to prioritize sleep and easy ways to relieve stress over the holidays. Heidi shares insights from this article by the Mayo Clinic. 

Guided meditation options: Breathing Meditation by Diana Winston @ UCLA, Empowered Me Meditation by Deepak Chopra

Click here for Heidi's "how to turn your brain off at night" post.

Take Aways

• "You may be able to sleep your way to a longer life." -Mayo Clinic article.
• If you cut your sleep short for a prolonged amount of time, it may raise your risk of heart attack, dementia, and diabetes.
• Sleep is restorative. 
• The brain and body perform many critical tasks while we sleep.
• While we sleep, our immune system makes repairs.
• Heidi's parents and grandparents prioritized family, church, and community over sleep most of their lives and they lived and are living long (AND PURPOSEFUL) lives! 
• Heidi's push back to prioritizing sleep: Always have a goal or purpose you're working toward. Giving up some sleep to attain that goal is usually worth it. 
• Tips to getting better sleep: create a bedtime routine, keep your room dark, exercise regularly, pay attention to your medications, get a check up, get a new mattress, stick to a schedule, don't drink alcohol.
• Stress relief tips (Starts at 20:37): exercise mindfulness, use guided meditations, take 3 deep breaths when feeling anxious, go for a walk, be in nature, read, be in sunlight, crochet, and accomplish tasks.
• It relives stress to check things off your to-do list. 
• Express your frustrations to someone who loves you and who won't be directly influenced by the decision or situation you're ranting about.

You're amazing. You can conquer anything. Hugs!! -Heidi

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