In a busy world that seems to demand more and more of our attention everyday, falling asleep can often be a challenge. If you find yourself in this wired-tired state, Catherine Polan Orzech offers some great insight into how we can practice mindfulness throughout our day in order to get better sleep.
By building a compassionate interest in ourselves, we can begin to treat ourselves with more friendliness and avoid creating additional layers of suffering for ourselves in the times when sleep just isn't happening. That shift towards non-judgment, stemming from a mindfulness practice, goes a long way towards setting ourselves up to feel better and sleep better.
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Catherine Polan Orzech is the author of "Mindfulness for Insomnia." She is on faculty at OHSU Center for Women's Health and is an expert in mindfulness based interventions. Catherine has been involved in the field of mind/body healing for over 20 years. She offers mindfulness and compassion-based individual, couple and family therapy in her private practice setting. She specializes in working with ways to alleviate anxiety, depression, the struggles felt in difficult relationships, chronic and serious illness, loss and grief.
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Episode 47: Sleep Science with Dr. Michael Breus
Episode 42: Taming Your Inner Critic with Catherine Polan Orzech, MA, LMFT
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Anxiety has surpassed depression as the number one mental illness in the US. Could our food and missing amino acids be part of the reason why?
Trudy Scott is an expert in the food-mood connection and she shares some different ways to look at how the things that we put in our mouths affect our physical and mental health. If we can look at our symptoms of anxiety as an opportunity to be in a respectful dialogue with our bodies, we can begin to hone in on the different sources of anxiety, such as low serotonin or low GABA.
On today’s episode of A Healthy Curiosity:
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Connect With Trudy:
The Anti-Anxiety Food Solution by Trudy Scott
Register for The Anti-Anxiety Summit 5
Download Trudy’s Free Guide on Anxiety
The Anxiety Summit 5 Order Page
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