Cure distraction with rest

Cure distraction with rest

Family Routines, Mindfulness, Sleep

Distraction is everywhere and the cure is mental rest. Social scientists, psychologists, and productivity experts are gathering data on our distracted culture. Our digital world, overwhelm, free-floating anxiety or even anxiety over reasonable concerns generate...
Go screen free for better sleep

Go screen free for better sleep

Bedtime Routine, Sleep

This week is an opportunity to try a family experiment and go screen free for better sleep. It’s definitely a challenge to reduce, let alone eliminate, screen time. Yet, like all challenges, the screen free challenge reaps enormous benefits. Not just in terms of...
Create New Habits in 2019

Create New Habits in 2019

Bedtime Routine, Parenting, Sleep

Let’s talk about how to create new habits this year. Creating new and better habits can actually simplify our lives. “Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.” Horace Mann We all have times in our lives where we intentionally...
Guided meditations work for sleep

Guided meditations work for sleep

Mindfulness, Sleep

Back in the day when I was in elementary school, my friends and I practiced guided meditation for sleep and didn’t even know it. We practiced it when we had sleepovers, only we called it “hypnotizing”.   After games and dancing and a TV binge, we’d go down in the...