5 Minute Freewrite Challenge Day 11 Sleep

5 Minute Freewrite Challenge Day 11 Sleep

I’m a good sleeper – at the top of the ranks. I can sleep anywhere and I can fall asleep in about 3 minutes. People get angry and wake me up and say, “You can’t be sleeping.”

“Yes I can be; and watch me do it again.”

I’m in anxiety, depression, and ptsd groups because my son has ptsd so I am trying to learn and cope. So many of the people in those groups cannot sleep.

Here are my tips for better sleep:

Create a dark haven for sleeping – as dark as you can get it
No lights or glows
No clock – put it in the bathroom; don’t worry or look what time it is; just get up when you have to or stay resting
Blackout curtains or double fabric if needed
Have a way to listen to podcasts with no light
Listen to lectures, interviews, and tutorials on stuff you want to learn
Only listen, block out the light
You either learn it or you go to sleep

Before sleep do any or all of these things

Drink water
Wash your feet
Shower
Wash your face and body at the sink
Magnesium oil on your feet
Coconut oil massage on feet and any other part of body
Coconut oil on face
Brush hair
Stretch in bed

Rest at least

Try the idea of listening to something and drifting off
But if not, just rest...

This is my entry for the #freewrite daily challenge by @mariannewest. This is a challenge you should join if you like to write and need to get posting at steemit. Connecting with Marianne is your first best step because she is a go-getter and I’m learning a lot of social media skills and about homesteading from her example - and now about quick posting! So come join us over there at #freewrite. Good post payouts for minnows too!

My photo is restful, I think. Just drift off. It’s a few Shelltown San Diego glows.

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My son made this poster for me a few years ago. He is the most relieved about my weight loss having lived through the worst of the obesity. Some of the traumatic near death experiences I had while obese are the direct cause of my son's ptsd since he was a very young child when I kept collapsing in front of him and being hauled off to the hospital.

Parents lose weight for your kids.

Nothing at fitinfun would be possible if I was still obese. Weight loss used to be all I thought about and I am so grateful that’s over. Today, I enjoy new-found vigor. Anyone can do this if I can.