👋 Raise your hand if you want more resilience to stress!
Less anxiety?
Yes please 🤚
New research shows that one way to achieve these things is simply by getting BETTER SLEEP.
The study looked at data from 1600 healthy adults during 2020 (an anxious time for lots of people!). Most of the participants were women.
They found that both positive coping strategies and higher quality sleep made people more resilient to stress and anxiety—independently, meaning each of these things work on their own.
Need some tips & motivation for better sleep?
✅ Keep the room cool
✅ Turn off screens in the evening
✅ Commit to a calming routine
✅ Cut off caffeine in the afternoon
✅ Get exercise during the day!
We have lots of tools in our functional medicine toolbox to help with stress, anxiety, & sleep.
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Reference
Sullivan EC, James E, Henderson LM, McCall C, Cairney SA. The influence of emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality on depression and anxiety [published online ahead of print, 2023 Jun 21]. Cortex. 2023;166:286-305. [link]