Sleep is valuable to all of us and yet we never seem to get enough of it.  We rely on sleep medication to put us to sleep and caffeine in the morning to wake us up.  Is the way we are living our lives sabotaging our ability to sleep the way nature intended us too?

Are you perhaps parenting a small child or two? Then accept that a good night of sleep is not on the cards for the foreseeable future.  I resorted to some pretty devious strategies to get more shut-eye when my babies were small. One was pretending to be in such a deep sleep that I didn’t “hear” my baby crying , so eventually my hubby would have to go.  My second tactic was giving him a good solid nudge and telling him “your turn”.  The third one  was threatening that I was going to go insane unless he did the night shift at least once a week. It is not something I am proud of, but at least I got some sleep which allowed me to function above ‘zombie’ level during the day. Read the rest of this entry →