Dr. Vonda Wright

Is your phone out of your room?

Do you have like a cool bedroom?

Do you have earplugs to block out some of the extraneous noises that my partner doing?

I've also been reading literature on CBT, so insomnia CBT, that they've done with a lot of veterans and shift workers.

And that seems really interesting.

To help them fall back asleep.

Yeah, to break the pattern because your body and your brain learn that wake-up pattern.

So if you can reset it, then that's very helpful as well.

I look at the research and the health outcomes right now for women, and it is a very confusing space.

So I always preface with the fact that I want women to be empowered.

And how do you do that?

You can't Google things and find out.

So it's asking questions.

It's sharing information.

Most of all, taking up the space because you've earned it.

I get so tired of the rhetoric that women should be small and demure and be like a delicate flower and things are happening to them that they can't control.

I want the narrative to shift.

I want people to say, I own the space.

I'm taking up the space.

And it's my... I don't like to use the word right because it invokes a lot of angst.