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13th Sep 2024

HH342: Stress Causes Sleep Issues

As I continue talking about how stress can negatively impact very various aspects of your health and life, and one of them that you are probably aware of, is how stress impacts your sleep.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and Master Practitioner in NLP and Timeline Therapy and a Board Designated Hypnotherapy Teacher Trainer, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa is the winner of the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 60 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

 

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Transcript
Melissa Deally:

Welcome back to another episode of health acts as I continue talking about how stress can negatively impact very various aspects of your health and life, and one of them that you are probably aware of, however you may not realize the impact is how stress impacts your sleep, and the more stressed out we are, the harder it is to fall asleep if we have a racing mind. Or we might fall asleep and then wake up in the middle of the night to that racing mind and not be able to get back to sleep. Or we simply wake up in the wee hours of the morning and then that's it, and we're only getting, you know, four or five hours of sleep, and in the last session, I talked about how stress negatively impacts our gut. Well, when we're not getting enough sleep, that actually starts to break down the good bacteria in our gut, and so that has a further negative effect on our gut health, as well as the fact that when we're sleep deprived, we are low on energy, and when we're low on energy, our brain is begging us for energy, and that's when we will often reach for sugary snacks, something quick in order to give us that quick boost in energy. And over the course of time, that actually has us eating more calories than we would if we were sleeping the right amount, and getting our energy from our sleep and so that, over time, leads to weight gain. The other thing that I want to share with you in regards to this is what you can do about it, because what you may not realize is that the last thing that you feed to your unconscious mind before you fall asleep is what it will work on all night long. So if you're feeding it stressful thoughts, if you've watched the nightly news, and that's created stress, if you've been watching some, you know, action movie, all of that is what your unconscious mind is going to work on all night long. And that's stressful and that can keep you awake or wake you up. So what you want to do before you go to sleep is give your unconscious mind something relaxing to work on, something that is positive for it to be working on all night long. And so even if you've watched the nightly news, even if you've watched some action movie, even if you are feeling stressed out during your day and as you're trying to wind down for bed, a great step that you can take is to write a gratitude journal, and just right before you turn out the light to Go to sleep, just note down things that you're grateful for in your day. We all have things that we can be grateful for. We're not necessarily used to looking for them, because our brain is wired to have us look for danger in order to keep us safe, and so that's what we're wired to look for. And so you have to choose to start looking for that gratitude in your day. And the more you do that, the more you will notice, because our reticular activation system starts focusing on the positives, and you will find things you can be grateful for each and every day. Just start out with trying to write down three things. And then as you build this habit, you'll find that you'll be able to fill a page in your journal of things that you're grateful for each and every day. So this is how I love to wind down my night every night is just thinking about what I'm grateful for, remembering that moment in my day, feeling that into my body, and letting my unconscious mind sleep on that all night long. And if I happen to wake up in the middle of the night, I just go back to my gratitude and then I drift straight back off to sleep. So happy sleeping and enjoy your gratitude journal. It is a powerful way to improve your sleep and improve how you feel as you go through each and every day.

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About the Podcast

Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!
with Melissa Deally, Integrative Health Practitioner
As an Integrative Health Practitioner I have come to realize that we simply haven't been taught how to optimize our health, and that the average person has habits that are negatively impacting their health, due to this lack of knowledge, through no fault of their own. Public health and our school system simply don't teach us enough about nutrition, sleep, stress, gut health or how interconnected our bodies are! Modern life has us more sleep deprived, stressed out and the sickest ever, and I believe it is time to bring this education to you, so that you CAN be empowered in your health and you can then make the right choices for you and your family. The choices you make today impact your future 1 year, 5 years, 10 years + from now. It is never too early to start looking after your health, as Health is your TRUE wealth....without it what do you have?

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Melissa Deally

Melissa is an Integrative Mind Body Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issue. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures, but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing, so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.