Archive for the ‘Sleep’ Category
Friday, September 16th, 2011
By Guest Blogger Malia Jacobson
When my daughter was a year old, I experienced a sleep epiphany. After months of horrific night waking, she finally started clocking twelve solid hours each night. Meanwhile, I continued waking in the wee hours and fighting daytime fatigue at my full-time job. The delicious prize I’d looked forward to savoring—sweet, uninterrupted sleep—was still elusive.
It was 2007, and my interest (obsession may be a better word) with my daughter’s sleep had lead to a role as a moderator of an online sleep forum. From there, after clocking many research hours, I started helping other parents solve their children’s sleep problems. Later, I would go on to publish dozens of articles in national and regional magazines and answer parent questions as the resident sleep expert at ParentingSquad.com. And then finally author a book, “Ready, Set, Sleep: 50 Ways to Help Your Child Sleep, So You Can Sleep Too.”
But back to 2007… With loads of sleep information under my belt, I was able to help my daughter sleep well and coach other parents to do the same. But with my baby sleeping like a champ, I could no longer blame her for my own fatigue and insomnia. I was thrilled that she was sleeping well, but a smidge disappointed to lose my sleep scapegoat. After spending a long and draining year getting my daughter to sleep, confronting my own sleep troubles was the last thing I wanted to do.
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Tags: bad sleep habits, combatting exhaustion, good sleep habits, how to beat insomnia, how to get a good night's sleep, insomnia, Malia Jacobson, mom exhaustion, Momsomnia: How To Beat Insomnia and Reclaim Rest, ParentingSquad.com, Ready, Set, sleep expert, sleep problems, Sleep: 50 Ways to Help Your Child Sleep, So You Can Sleep Too, TheWellRestedFamily.com, tips for a better night's sleep
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
By Guest Blogger Layne Dalfen
Why We Dream About Sex
Have you ever dreamt about having sex with your best friend? Or dreamt about sex with a hot stranger, perhaps while lying in bed right next to your partner?! How does this dream make you feel when you wake up? Aroused? Uncomfortable? Guilty? All of the above?
It’s not surprising that of all the dream topics I analyze with clients, sex dreams top the titillation–and confusion–charts. The way we dream about sex can uncover our deepest secrets about ourselves helping us problem-solve and offering critical guidance on important life issues. You just need to know how to deconstruct them. Discovering why you had a particular dream is an investigation. You’ll want to ask yourself questions to solve the puzzle. Remember that in our dreams we are decision-making, testing out different solutions to our problems. We are practicing different behaviors. And all of the possible ways of behaving in every situation we face are there for us in our dreams. Why feel stuck with the same reactions to situations over and over again when our dreams offer us the potential to change our behavior and our lives?
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Tags: analyzing dreams, dream about sex, dream analysis, dream analyst, dreaming, dreams, how to decode a dream, layne dalfen, sex, sex dreams, Sexual Dreams, sexuality, understanding dreams, understanding sexual dreams, why do i dream about sex
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
So, you know that expression, “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead?” Yah well, it’s this expression that has pretty much sent me into overdrive. I look at my peers around me, and many of them live by this attitude. The husbands are A athletes, cyclists, skiers. The wives are tennis players, exercisers etc… (and so are their kids, by the way). They are from this mindset– I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead. They Go Go Go. Hard. They are in words of Charlie Sheen, Winning.
And then there’s me… I guess somewhere in the middle– an A player or flat out D player, on any given day.
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Tags: Charlie Sheen, down time, feel guilty for taking time off, feel guilty relaxing, how to relax without feeling guilty, how to stop feeling guilty, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, relax without guilt, relaxation guilt, what to do on the weekends, what to do with down time, winning
Posted in Kids, Marriage, Motherhood, Sleep, Wellness | 12 Comments »
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
By Guest Blogger Layne Dalfen
Why stay stuck on the fence? Life is filled with decisions– our own, others’, and even those others telling us what decisions to make. But the fact is, deep down inside, we usually know exactly what we should do. The trick is getting in there to access that wisdom.
Working with dreams is a wonderful and very simple way to get to that deep-down place and consult our inner advisors for solutions to waking-life dilemmas. It’s not that dreams have some magical wisdom about the absolute right or wrong thing to do in any given situation. Rather, they let us know what we are most comfortable doing, what we really feel or need or want. Dreams give us the opportunity to tap into our intuition and to be in touch with our whole selves when making decisions.
Although dreams can sometimes present very literal solutions to waking-life problems, they often illuminate aspects of ourselves that we need to develop in order to solve those problems. Meaning, sometimes, dreams shine a spotlight on other people as a way to pinpoint a behavior that is missing in our response to a current situation. For example, that screaming child in your dream, may be telling you that you need to speak up more about your concerns at work. Do you get it? In this way, dreams show us different possibilities for thinking, acting, and reacting that are unimaginable in our waking lives and provide us with a safe place to practice these new behaviors. Eventually we can bring the new behavior out of the dream scenes and into real life.
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Tags: analyzing dreams, dream analysis, dream represent, dreaming, dreams, how to analyze your dreams, interpreting dreams, laybe dalfen, meaning of dreams, Problem Solving While You Sleep, what do my dreams mean
Posted in Sleep, Stress, Wellness | 24 Comments »
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
I thought today I’d do a collaboration of ALL the “On The Fence” topics you have suggested over the past year.
It turns out there are MANY.
Here is the top 35! I didn’t hold back. I have kept track of EVERY “On the fence request” since Day 1. Please feel free to voice your faves for further expanded Blog posts.
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Here is what you women sit on the fence about:
1. Vaginal coiffing: Full, trimmed, landing strip, Brazilian, The “Telly Savalas”
2. When I get married, whose last name do I use… mine or my husband’s?
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Tags: Career, discipline, Family, keepin it light, Kids, Life, Marriage, telly savalas, The top 35 things women sit on the fence about, what women sit on the fence aboout
Posted in Beauty, Career, Dating, Diet & Food, Friendship, Kids, Marriage, Money, Motherhood, Relationships, Sex & Sexuality, Sleep, Stress, Wellness | 21 Comments »
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
I can’t believe it’s almost that time again… winter. Beside beautiful falling snow, winter often brings something entirely different — flu season! In fact, my family’s skin has already faded from golden brown (summer lovin’) to pale white to green-like. My boys have started their first runny noses, and I have been fighting a sinus infection for about three weeks. We slacked off with our health regime all summer long, because we had the benefits of natural sunlight, the great outdoors, and we ate a ton of fruit. However, with back-to-school, a bunch of kids packed into close quarters, for hours on end, it’s only a matter of time before everyone is sick again.
So, seeing that this is the season we’re heading into, I wanted to give you some great ways to “flu-proof” yourself and your family this winter season. I am tightening up my regime, and I already have my kids back on their vitamins and pro-biotic. If you’re on the fence about what works and what doesn’t with regards to your family’s well-being, let me give you some proven facts. Even with germs spreading like wildfires, you can absolutely take your health into your own hands. There are many way you can lower your risk of getting sick.
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Tags: back to school, diet and exercise, eating right, flu season, flu-proof, garlic prevent flu, how to lower the risk of getting sick, how to prevent the flu, how to stay healthy during flu season, omega-3 fatty acid, pilates, Preventing the flu, staying healthy, staying well during flu season, vitamin d, vitamin d supplement, yoga
Posted in Diet & Food, Sleep, Stress, Wellness | 13 Comments »
Friday, October 8th, 2010
I thank my mother, who forwarded this to me. It’s a great reminder. I think it’s something we should all read at least once a week. Make sure you read to the end.
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more”:
LESSONS I LEARNED FROM LIFE
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Tags: 90 years old, canadian thanksgiving, Cleveland, LESSONS I LEARNED FROM LIFE, of The Plain Dealer, Ohio, Regina Brett
Posted in Beauty, Career, Dating, Diet & Food, Friendship, Kids, Marriage, Money, Motherhood, Relationships, Sex & Sexuality, Sleep, Stress, Wellness | 15 Comments »
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