Hi everyone. It’s been a pretty solid week over here. After last week’s sleep issues, I decided to make some changes to my evening routine. Here are a few: Eat dinner earlier. Drink some sort of relaxing tea blend before heading upstairs for bed. I have moved my meditation to bedtime instead of morning. I’m [...]
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Yoga for Better Sleep: 5 Simple Yoga Poses to Practice Before Bed
March 24, 2020 { 2 comments }This post is sponsored by CVS Pharmacy. This post topic is one that I feel so passionately about, especially given my status as a toddler mom coupled with daylight savings and all the things going on in the world right now. SLEEP! Never in my life have I valued and prioritized sleep in my life [...]
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Good Dog, Bad Dog, Happy Baby
February 8, 2019 { 9 comments }Happy weekend lovely friends. I am writing to you from a hotel room in Hershey, PA where I am in bed watching HGTV and eating Boom Chicka Pop. I am here to lead a teacher training weekend at Studio B Power Yoga. I am so excited to meet the trainees tomorrow, and also some blog [...]
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Two Guided Meditations I Use to Fall Asleep at Night
November 19, 2014 { 20 comments }I am not the best sleeper. I sometimes have trouble falling asleep at night and I almost always wake up in the middle of the night sometime around 3 a.m. and have to coax myself back to sleep. What is it about the 3 a.m. hour that intensifies everything and makes you feel like you [...]
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Let’s Get Some Sleep: Stopping Sleep Deprivation
October 22, 2014 { 26 comments }Right on the heels of my crazy “Monday in the life” post, I want to talk about something serious. Sleep. Often, my nights are late and my mornings are early. It’s fairly normal for me to go to sleep around 11:15-11:30 p.m. and get up at 4:55 a.m. That’s an average of a little over [...]
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Need Sleep
June 7, 2010 { 1 comment }I slept horribly Sunday night. There’s something about getting off of my sleeping schedule on the weekends and worrying about sleeping through my 5 a.m. wake up call on Monday mornings to teach BodyPump that just really interferes with my sleeping on Sundays. Last night was way worse than usual for some reason. I was [...]