The Secret to Better Sleep

Dr. Caroline Leaf
9 min readOct 31, 2019

We hear so much about how sleep is important, and the dangers of not getting enough sleep, that this can actually make us fear all the damage that we are doing to our bodies when we can’t sleep, which impacts our sleeping patterns and our ability to think clearly during the day! I myself have done this. In fact, I have done almost everything when I cannot sleep: counting sheep, deep 4–7–8 breathing, hot baths 90 minutes before bedtime, switching off my cell phone two hours before going to sleep, exercising at night and in the morning, removing the TV from my bedroom, avoiding work before bed, reading a book…

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Dr. Caroline Leaf

Mental health expert. I have spent the last 30+ years researching ways to help people manage mental health issues in school, work, and life: drleaf.com