- Sleep
Working on your sleep goes right along with stress. When you are stressed, you have an increase in hormones like cortisol, adrenaline, and epinephrine. These can make falling asleep and staying asleep very difficult. Sleep is so important! Your body heals and resets while you are sleeping. When you don’t get enough sleep at night, you feel tired and MORE stressed the next day. Being very tired can also weaken your judgment about your food choices.
It is important to get 7-9 hours of quality sleep a night. Everyone’s sleep requirements are a little different. But on average, shoot for getting 8 hours of sleep a night and no less than 7 hours.
Make sure you are sleeping in a dark room, without night lights or bright lights coming from your phone, alarm clock, oil diffuser, or humidifier. Sleeping with lights in the room can throw off your circadian rhythm (sleep/wake cycle) and cause you to get less quality sleep.