In this episode, the Queen of Sleep, Rebecca Moulton and I…
disagree with the blanket sleep hygiene recommendations, sleep apps, and sleep-monitoring devicesdiscuss the epidemic of women doing it all as caregivers and why we need to let ourselves off the hookdiscuss Yoga Nidra as a helpful tool for cultivating restdiscuss the nervous system and why down regulating it is necessary for good sleepreveal how breath work biologically signals messages of calm and safety to the nervous systemexpose the awful consequences we all suffer with our sleep and rest as a result of capitalism and patriarchyexpose the toxic attitudes about sleep and why re-writing our sleep story is so importantshare the concept of healing from the body to the brain rather than from the brain to the body (bottom up, not top down)give practical tips for stopping the middle of the night monkey mindshare a fantastically relaxing guided meditation/body scan to get you in parasympathetic modetalk about why rest (not sleep) is a radical, revolutionary, and rebellious act of self-care and why we must create a life that honors restFollow @iamlindseylockett
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