We can’t be well without sleep. There’s a reason sleep deprivation is a torture. Some of us might want to have words with the current culture about this, because there is a lot of pressure out there to do All The Things even at the expense of sleep.
While there are certainly times when we’re not going to get enough (like, say, when we have a new baby), we can strive to get our seven to nine hours. I realize this may mean terrible sacrifices, like waiting a whole day to watch the next episode of that awesome show or putting away the phone at bed time, but when we wake up with actual energy, we might find it worth it.
When we get enough sleep, our bodies and our brains work better. Sleep time is when our tissues repair themselves from our workouts so we wake up stronger. It’s also the time when we consolidate the things we learn during the day. Our brains do housework while we’re unconscious (isn’t that nice of them?) and we don’t really want to get in the way of them taking out the garbage.
Tomorrow: bed time routines!
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