The Happy Sleeper

What if you knew that one simple daily habit would boost your mental health threefold, improve your work productivity, help you get in shape, dramatically reduce your stress and anxiety, cut your chances of getting in a car accident in half, and ward off chronic health conditions like type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cancer? No downsides—only upsides to everything you care about in your life. Of course you’d start today. Sleep is a powerful panacea. But in our daily lives, we systematically neglect it. More than a third of adults are sleep deprived and trying to get by on 5-6 hours, when research shows this has serious mental and physical health consequences. Over 80 percent of high school students are sleep deprived, which is one of the main contributors to rising mental health issues. As psychotherapists and nationally recognized sleep experts, Heather and Julie offer sleep workshops, corporate events, school seminars, and individual sessions to help people of all ages (kids, teens, and adults) optimize sleep. They teach science-backed tools to reset biological rhythms, create effective sleep habits, and improve mental and physical health. Heather and Julie are authors of The Happy Sleeper and Generation Sleepless (Penguin RandomHouse) and have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR.