The Hidden Reasons Why You’re (I’m?) Constantly Tired

The Year Of Sleep

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I’ve set out on a journey. A sleep discovery, if you will.

My goal is to end 2023 with consistent, sound sleep.

For some, that might seem like a completely average goal. Maybe some of you already accomplish this with ease! If you do, you’re lucky. For the rest of us non-sleepers, the goal is impossible and unrealistic. Feeling tired all the time might be something you’ve just accepted as a part of your life as a busy professional, or a parent, or both. That’s also what I thought. But after too many years of moving forward with my career, forward with creating and building my family and forward with my occasional snaps of exhaustion, I’ve realized that something has to change.

Enter: The Year of Sleep

Welcome to my personal study on everything from giving up caffeine to sleeping with the window open in the middle of winter. The effects of alcohol to setting a consistent bedtime. I am on a quest to understand why I had amazing sleep the first 30 years of my life only to have it crash around me for the next six. And I’m fighting to get my sound sleeping habits back.

To start this journey I did one of the things I do best: I read.