My husband and I had a hard but wonderful and long talk and now, I’m sleeping better! Typically, I’m wide awake from 3:00am to 5:00am. Chinese medicine believes these “awake” hours indicate a need for emotional release (grief/sadness). They’re not wrong.
Turns out, just talking to someone really helped. Go figure. Dang. You’d think I could have figured this out sooner given my last 2 years I have lost 2 hours every night. But nope.
Apparently, I just needed to say it and talk about my feelings. Yup. So much to learn yet kiddo.
My father on the flip side, doesn’t always sleep well but can no longer articulate why. Then again, sometimes he claims to have slept really well. Dementia makes it hard to tell truth from fiction. But I figure on the days he believes he’s had a good night’s sleep, then he likely does better because of that belief. Take that dementia!
