Let me set the scene; you’ve been in your bed for a few hours, staring at the wall, letting your thoughts float and bounce across the room, and you’re thinking, “how the **** am I not asleep yet?”. oh have I been there... But maybe what you didn’t know (and what I hadn’t realized until recently), is that insomnia and sleeplessness are heavily gendered! And no one seems to talk about it?

Join me on this journey of reclaiming and honoring sleeplessness, and normalizing this obscured lifestyle. 

(but also, don’t let your insomnia govern your life. It’s worth seeing a professional to better understand your sleep hygiene, and even more so if you can no longer live your daily life due to insomnia)

The book that inspired this episode:

“Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self” by Annabel Abbs.

I also talk about a few different artists, including Louise Bourgeois (the spider sculpture “Maman” I talk about is definitely not in Belgium it’s at the Tate in London right now).