59. Master Your Way to More Restorative Sleep with Expert Psychologist Sarah Chana Radcliffe
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Hi everyone! Welcome back to another episode of The Chai on Life Podcast. I’m Alex Segal, and today I am speaking with Sarah Chana Radcliffe, a psychologist from Toronto, Canada.
If her names sounds familiar to you, that is because her expertise, depth and breadth is vast and she has been sharing her wisdom and advice for years now through books, articles and classes. She is the author of “Raise Your Kids without Raising Your Voice,” “The Fear Fix,” “Harmony at Home,” “No More Tics,” and more books on Jewish family life and emotional wellbeing.
She is a weekly columnist for the Family First section of Mishpacha magazine and in conjunction with Jewish Workshops, has produced numerous webinar courses on parenting, marriage, anxiety and stress management. She is the head of the Sarah Chana Radcliffe Parenting Academy where she trains and certifies parenting coaches internationally. You can get more from her at Dailyparentingposts.com.
In this episode, we are focusing on getting you not only more sleep, but better quality sleep so you can live on less of it if that’s the stage of life you’re in. In our conversation, we speak about: -The challenges of simply being a human being in the world -Remedies for healing and how the brain works when it comes to certain modalities -Why worrying is actually a choice and not something we have no control over -How to rewire our brains to accomplish anything personal you are working on -Why you may be having trouble sleeping and what’s going on below the surface that’s causing it -How different people truly need different amounts of sleep and the perspective we can gain from that -So many different remedies to help you sleep better — she really goes through a lot of ideas from the super simple and easy to the ones that require more time and focus (with a seemingly huge payoff) -How to get ourselves to actually go to sleep earlier and why we have such a hard time doing so
…and so much more!
Here, all of the sleep methods she mentioned in the episode: Bach Flower Remedies: White Chestnut Saje aromatherapy Sleep Well Restful Sleep Oil Blend Silva Method Holosync Book: The Joy of Doing Nothing
See you next week!
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