If I could just relax..and not worry about not sleeping

Sleep right now is as elusive as it has ever been. That’s probably not true but it sure feels that way right now. I was up most of last night and the night before with short spells of intermittent sleep with very vivid disturbing dreams. Towards morning today, I felt my body ease into a…

February Wellness Goals

Bye Bye January. January was a bit of a mixed bag for me . It started with me battling a bad bout of bronchitis and then it got good and I started working out doing at least 20 minutes of TaeBo in the morning and sleeping better. I was very proud of myself. Then a…

Making wellness a priority

I just stumbled on this video in my FB feed and just wanted to share. It talks about the different ways we need to take care of our selves, all the facets of who we are: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and social. It’s pretty awesome. The source SAMSHA intially threw me off. I was like…

Enough! Day 2

Last night, I headed up to bed by 7ish. I knew I would not fall asleep that early but I just wanted to unwind and rest. I sipped on some wine and listened to my meditation CDs and did a few of the affirmation exercises which was seeming to help until my sister interrupted me…

Enough! 

Enough of this not sleeping nonsensical BS! Enough of laying awake all or most of the night! Enough of tossing and turning all night! Enough of being fatigued! Enough of feeling like I am  insomnia’s damned hostage!  Enough enough enough! It’s time to start sleeping better. To get to the underlying cause of this insomnia…

Celebrated too soon? Probably

So I had 2 nights of good sleep and more or less went into celebratory mode.  Did I celebrate too soon? Probably. Coz here I am. It’s almost 2am and I have to get out of bed at 4am to be at work at 5. I give up.  At least I had 2 days of…

Tickled pink!

So if I appear too thrilled after a mere two days of sound sleep, that’s because I have been to the other side and found it to be much too painful. So yeah, I admit it, I am more than tickled pink today. I am about to turn my music on, turn it up and celebrate!