Dr. Micaela

Maybe that's doing less time on screens, which I love saying in the irony of me doing this with you on a screen and we're here all together, right?

Maybe it means moving your body more.

So walking, taking stairs, exercising, jumping on a trampoline, right?

Like there are lots of forms of physical body movement that don't have to involve running or the gym.

So thinking about that, right?

Thinking also about maybe you don't necessarily want to cut down on screen time.

Maybe physical activity is just not your jam or not accessible to you for whatever reason.

Focusing on things like healthy nutrition,

and really being motivated to focus on, essentially, I'm not gonna walk through every single wellness behavior, but thinking instead of like, oh, my sleep is so bad, I must focus on my sleep, which is the best, because then you're laying in bed and you're like, why am I not asleep?

Why am I not asleep?

Oh my God, how I can't fall asleep because this is really stressful because I can't fall asleep.

And now I'm really not gonna be well-rested, right?

And we go on those spirals, which are totally detrimental to sleep patterns.

So instead, pick your own one or two wellness areas that you would like to focus on.

And the cool thing is that when you can really dial in on like one or two areas of your physical wellness, a lot of times those things can kind of align in a way that make the overall functioning optimal.

So that's exciting.

I do know that a lot of the things that I'm saying are like, I don't know if it's controversial, but like for anybody who's struggled with sleep to hear that like, yeah, you just have to sleep.

I know can feel like, I mean, invalidating for one, but also just like

defeating, right?

Like, ew, you're telling me that this thing that I struggle with that is awful for so many different reasons is something that I kind of have to focus on.