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College Is Fine, Everything's Fine - #22 Why Choose Sleep Part 1: How Sleeping Well is Critical to Thriving in College

#22 Why Choose Sleep Part 1: How Sleeping Well is Critical to Thriving in College

College Is Fine, Everything's Fine

02/10/23 • 27 min

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A recent study showed that over 70% of college students are getting consistently less than 7 hours of sleep a night. That’s not a great number, especially when you consider that healthy sleep habits are linked to higher college GPAs. So if sleep is so important to doing well in college, why is it often at the bottom of the priority list?

Sleeping is underrated in college and is usually saved for the weekends after a long week of studying and a weekend of celebrating your academic efforts. To make matters worse, college students are often managing a lot of responsibilities, between school, friends, family, work, and sleep seems like the only thing they can sacrifice to get it all done. In this two part series, we talk to a college student who realized the consequences of poor sleep and got things back on track, and we talk to two sleep experts who provide all the sleep facts and tips to help make your sleep better.

In this week’s episode we sit down with Dr. Shelby Harris, a nationally renowned sleep expert who sets us straight on why we shouldn’t skimp on sleep. Make sure to follow her @sleepdocshelby for easy tips and helpful reminders.

Books:

Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep: Solutions to Insomnia for Those with Depression, Anxiety, or Chronic Pain

https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Your-Mind-Get-Sleep/dp/1572246278/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3T3M9YBJUEMWC&keywords=colleen+carney&qid=1675820535&s=books&sprefix=colleen+carney%2Cstripbooks%2C94&sr=1-1

Good Night Mind for Teens

https://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Mind-Teens-Thoughts-Solutions/dp/1684034388/ref=sr_1_4?crid=35MC7ZNEHVK6Q&keywords=teens+sleep+book&qid=1675820648&s=books&sprefix=teens+sleep+book%2Cstripbooks%2C94&sr=1-4

Podcasts:

Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter

https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1631914841

Articles:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/melodywilding/2023/01/31/how-to-turn-your-brain-off-at-night-according-to-a-sleep-psychologist/?sh=52ee1aff3077

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/well/an-underappreciated-key-to-college-success-sleep.html

American Academy of Sleep Medicine:

https://aasm.org/college-students-getting-enough-sleep-is-vital-to-academic-success/

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Music is Deadbeats by Rex Banner

02/10/23 • 27 min

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College Is Fine, Everything's Fine - #22 Why Choose Sleep Part 1: How Sleeping Well is Critical to Thriving in College

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it was a very unique time, both in my life and in the world. Covid had basically just started that semester, , and I had just left, my university life to go back to Colorado to quarantine. , and it was, you know, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of stress, , but outside of the pandemic stressors, which everyone was feeling, , there were factors that made my own sleep a little more difficult. I had days where my schedule, my, my sleep week cycle was so weird that I'd be over caffeinated a

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