Module 5
Stress Management: Prioritizing Sleep and Calming Practices
Sleep and managing your stress are important foundations to take care of your “human machine,” strengthen it, and create space for more green choices. Part 1 with Leslie Choi, RN, MS, CPNP, PMHNP-BC will review helpful strategies, mindsets, and themes around the importance of sleep and the physiological relevance to prevent impact of stress. For additional information and ways to improve your sleep see pages 19-20 in your Toolkit.
Part 1
Part 2
In this video, Mandy Doria MS, LPC, NCC, RYT-200 will discuss calming strategies to reduce stress and downregulate the parasympathetic nervous system throughout the day. These strategies may help improve sleep hygiene as well. This presentation includes a guided meditation for caregivers.
Additional Resources for this Module:
- Websites
- National Sleep Foundation
- CDC’s sleep webpage
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- Sleep Hygiene
- For adults from the Centre for Clinical Interventions in Australia
- For Children from CHOC.org (Children’s Health Orange County)
- CBT-I Online course through sleepio
- Podcasts
- Books
- Sink Into Sleep: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Reversing Insomnia - Judith R. Davidson, Ph.D
- Sleep Through Insomnia: End the Anxiety and Discover Sleep Relief with Guided CBT-I Therapy – Brandon Peters, MD
- Other
- Sleep diaries -
- Audible resource
- Apps for Sleep and Meditation
- Headspace
- Calm
- SleepCycle
- Breethe
- CBT-i Coach from the VA