Why I felt like trash this past weekend

I have been feeling like trash the last few days, y’all.

Irritable. Frustrated. Angrily ranting at my computer when I’d lose a game of Magic, as if it would hear me.

I am not normally this way, so I busted out some Science? to try to understand what was going on with me, and the answer was stunningly obvious and ironic.

I need about 7.5 hours to be a well-functioning human, and it wasn't easy to get to there. Sleep is tough for me (as it is for many folks with anxiety, trauma, and ADHD), but I've put in the work because I know (and my psychiatrist told me) that it was the foundation upon which my entire wellness rests.

Let’s look at last week, the week in which I launched Snooze School (my new 6 week "sleep better through behavioral science program)...

That’s almost an hour less than I need, for a whole week.

But it explained everything. The mood, the malaise, the general "everything feels impossible" feeling. My non-existent motivation.

Yes, sometimes it is that simple.

Now, if I had not known to look at my sleep, what to look for, and how to quickly get it back on track, the misery would have continued. Everything would feel difficult, all the time, and no matter how many pep talks I gave myself, change would be pulling teeth levels of frustrating.

I'm glad this happened this week because it reminded me, in a very visceral way, how important Snooze School really is.

How I felt this weekend is how many of you feel every day, and you don't even realize you're trying to solve puzzles that require hands with both arms tied behind your back. Of course it's difficult.

If you're, on average, getting less than seven hours per night, it's pretty darn likely that everything in your life is more difficult in some way, unless you're literally 1 in 4 million (the genetic frequency of a rare ability to function on considerably less sleep...no, it's not common).

If it's way less than seven hours? You've got both arms and both legs tied up, and you're blind-folded.

If you aren't sure because you think you might get 7ish hours? It's probably you too because research tells us that people tend to overestimate how much sleep they're getting. Either way, Snooze School will get you a definitive answer.

Give me six weeks in Snooze School, and we will give you your hands back.

You've got until Monday, February 26.

Let's go.