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    The Great Sleep Checklist, 100 Obstacles To & Strategies for Better Sleep
    The Great Sleep Checklist, 100 Obstacles To & Strategies for Better Sleep
    The Great Sleep Checklist, 100 Obstacles To & Strategies for Better Sleep
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    The Great Sleep Checklist, 100 Obstacles To & Strategies for Better Sleep

    By Marti Johnson

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    If you're looking for the exhaustive analysis of all the latest sleep studies, this is NOT the book for you. This book is a concise, compiled checklist of all the things that keep insomniacs awake, followed by a comprehensive list of all the helpful tips and things to do to get yourself back to sleep. In addition, the author provides strategies for specific types of insomniacs: women, older men, ADHD sufferers, frequent travelers who want to "sleep like a baby," and busy multi-taskers.
    Author Marti Johnson is a former network television reporter who suffered life-long insomnia and struggled to sleep. Due to travel schedules, she kept irregular hours, trying to "catch as catch can" on sleep. As a recovering insomniac, she now uses combinations of these items to improve her own sleep. This is her list and the strategies are ones she compiled based on personal research with fellow insomniacs. She considers herself a "recovering insomniac" and is sharing her tips with you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarti Johnson
    Release dateJul 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301960040
    The Great Sleep Checklist, 100 Obstacles To & Strategies for Better Sleep
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    Marti Johnson

    Marti Johnson is a well known reporter and journalist, formerly with ABC News, Hearst Television and Tribune. Ms. Johnson grew up in a small town outside of Salt Lake City, Utah; graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University and makes her home currently in Washington, DC. A life-long insomniac, her parents often woke hearing noises in the kitchen and found their sleepless daughter having a glass of milk and an oatmeal cookie at 1 o'clock in the morning. As an adult, her career has added to the problem. Long hours reporting in various locations around the country and the need to work the graveyard shift led to many sleepless nights and red-eyed days. To alleviate this situation, she tried everything from hot baths to extra workouts to prescription drugs and says the prescriptions were the least helpful. "I usually woke up a deep sleep but feeling unrested." In her first book, she offers everything she learned over years of study, and the solutions she worked out. After years of trial and error, she compiled her strategies for relief and the checklist that any insomniac needs to get Great Sleep. In her second "Great Checklist" book, she provides all the advice and tidbits from years of reading health, medical and weight research and her own personal research. The Great Checklists are books that provide valuable research for busy readers at an incredibly low price.

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      The Great Sleep Checklist, 100 Obstacles To & Strategies for Better Sleep - Marti Johnson

      The Great Sleep Check List

      100 Ideas and Strategies for Better Sleep

      by Marti Johnson

      © 2013 Marti Johnson

      Published by Marti Johnson at Smashwords

      * * * *

      The Great Sleep Checklist

      Table of Contents

      Foreword by Dr. Shanna Kurth

      Introduction to The Great Sleep Checklist

      Obstacles to Sleep

      Basic Strategies for Sleep

      Sleep Strategies for Multi-Taskers, Worriers and ADHD Sufferers

      Strategies to Sleep Like a Baby

      Sleep Strategies for Women

      Sleep Strategies for Men

      Sleep Strategies for Workout Hounds

      Natural Remedies

      Herbal Remedies - Helpful dietary supplements

      Medical Sleep Aids: Prescription and Over the Counter

      In Conclusion

      Footnotes

      * * * *

      Foreword

      If you are looking for a book describing, in excruciating detail, every study to come out of every sleep lab in the past 10 years, this is not the one for you. On the other hand, if sleep has been eluding you such that you are now searching for a comprehensive checklist of strategies which might help you fix the problem, then this book is exactly what the doctor ordered. Ms. Johnson has done the legwork for you by gathering, demystifying, and organizing the collective wisdom of distinguished sleep experts and recovered insomniacs alike into a concise list of practical strategies for getting some decent shuteye.

      If you are struggling to sleep, I heartily recommend this checklist. In fact, as you read through them, I recommend you specifically watch for items which you are certain DO NOT apply to you – rules for good sleep which you have successfully broken with impunity for years without any previous noticeable impact on your sleep. Have you always needed the TV on in order to fall asleep? Have you enjoyed at least 6 or 8 cups of full-octane coffee every day for years before your sleep problems began? Pay close attention to any which you are tempted to dismiss with the thought, Oh, that couldn’t be my problem; I’ve stayed up late/texted/eaten rich food for years without a problem. The basic rules you are most tempted to dismiss could very well be the ones which you should try reinstating first. And as Ms. Johnson notes, you will most certainly need to try a few things. Experiment a little.

      Whatever you do, don’t give up. Sleep is a fundamental human need; your body knows this. At least one time in your life, you slept well; therefore, your body knows how to sleep. You may just need to give it a fighting chance by setting yourself up for success. And the best way to do that

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