When Falling Back to Sleep Is Your Problem
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It seems like so many “how to sleep better” articles and blog posts focus on how to initially fall asleep when you get into bed.
Putting away your phone, turning down the temperature in your room, getting a white noise machine.
Those are all great, but that isn’t my issue with sleep. It’s falling back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night.
I don’t have a tough time falling asleep initially. I have a great bedtime routine, I am an early bird (including an early workout), and I take melatonin. All this (plus the tips mentioned above) combined means I’m really tired when I get into bed with Netflix.
If you’re anything like me, this happens to you at least once a week: it’s 3 AM and your bladder wakes you up. While that’s annoying enough, it’s worse when for the life of you it is impossible to get back to sleep.
My brain just won’t shut off. I’m not even talking about times that I’m stressed and have a lot on my mind – I keep cycling through a new recipe I want to try or a funny scene from a show I just watched or whatever.
And 3 AM is too late to take another melatonin (or a sleeping pill, if that’s something you sometimes use) unless you want to be really groggy/hungover the next morning.
Well I’ve got good news is you routinely face this problem: there’s a (natural!!) solution that I’ve found, something that is potent enough to quiet your restless mind without knocking you out.
In other words, it helps you get back to sleep without disrupting your ability to wake up and have a productive morning.
It’s called Calm, and it’s fantastic.
It is a supplement filled with a bunch of adaptogenic mushrooms and herbs. “Adaptogenic” is seeing its time in the sun these days because they actually work in helping your body fight stress, and because they don’t rely on chemicals to do so. These ingredients help your body produce GABA, which calms the central nervous system.
That’s a fancy way of saying they help your body produce a neurotransmitter that lessens anxiety and a racing mind.
So what are these adaptogens? Calm contains lavender, lemon balm, lion’s mane, chaga, kava, passion flower, night blooming cereus, and mucuna pruriens.
A lot of these things taste awful if you eat them (maybe as bad as the anxiety itself), so with this in pill form, you get all the benefit without any of the taste. And it’s important to note that in typical southern Californian fashion (where the manufacturer is based), the pills include the real, whole mushrooms and herbs. A lot of similar products instead offer synthetic versions of them – i.e. chemicals.
So Calm has real, natural (not chemical) adaptogenic ingredients that quiet your mind without making you groggy.
This is the perfect thing to keep in your nightstand at all times because you never know when insomnia is going to strike. And there’s nothing worse than staring at the clock all night with a big presentation next morning. It’s better to be safe than sorry!
If you want to see what Calm is all about, click here to read more about it. If you subscribe to a monthly subscription, it’s 14% off at $30 plus free shipping (which tends to be my favorite discount).
And if you don’t like it, you have a 30 day money back guarantee. So even if it doesn’t work for, it’s worth at least giving it a try. And for right now, all orders include free shipping, not just subscriptions!
We all know how important sleep is and how much better we feel after we have enough of it.
