6 Tips to Help You Adapt to Daylight Saving Time As Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 14 the majority of the US will “spring forward” (minus Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands), setting their clocks an hour forward and effectively “losing” an hour of precious sleep. This change is […]
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Breathing & Sleeping Your Way Through the Covid-19 Crisis As we navigate the unknown and the attendant stress, fears, and challenges of the global Covid-19 coronavirus crisis, it can be difficult to stay relaxed, function normally, and tend to life as usual. Taking preventative measures is important and the medical and media communities are providing […]
IS YOUR SLEEP IN ORDER FOR 2020? Distinguishing Disordered Sleep & Sleep Disorders THE GENESIS OF “DISORDERED SLEEP” In 1996, the impact of my spouse’s snoring on my sleep was becoming all too apparent. While helping in my daughter’s kindergarten classroom, my exhaustion was evidenced by my struggle to keep my eyes open.
THE ABCs of ZZZs Whether a youngster at the opening of the door to a lifetime of learning or an elderly adult winding down from decades of accumulating information, three similarities regarding sleep are stark: 1. Each requires sleep to live. 2. Many are not getting the sleep required for good health, be it compromised […]
A DREAM COMES TRUE AT THE NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION SLEEP SHOW: It’s Sleep Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation, an opportunity to recognize that sleep is essential and to take action to prioritize our sleep. Yet for some, the basic essentials for a good night’s sleep remain an unfulfilled dream. For far too […]
Are You Breathing Properly? Are Your Children? We enter the world with a breath and the process continues automatically for the rest of our lives. Although breathing is an involuntary function, the manner in which we breathe has an enormous effect on our health. Breathing is an innate bodily function which most of us take […]