Here’s the sentence I want to start our week with: you are not a bad sleeper. You are a woman whose body forgot it was safe to rest.
Today’s new article in Substack is about the 3 a.m. wake-up — the one where you’re exhausted all day, then wide awake in the dark like someone flipped a switch. We’ve been taught to treat that as a personal failing, something to fix with more discipline or another supplement. It isn’t. It’s your nervous system, still on alert, doing exactly what it learned to do over years of running on empty.
That’s the sleep floor — the first one we’re building this month. And it’s the one everything else rests on.
So before you read it, tell us in here:
What time do you usually wake in the night? Just drop the time — 2 a.m., 3:15, 4. One number is all I’m asking.
I’ll be in the comments, and I want to see how many of us keep the same appointment with the ceiling.