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Nicola Appleton

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Editor, writer, ocean lover and chronic over thinker.
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I used to wake up at 3 a.m. because of a common TV habit — this doctor’s simple fix helped me finally sleep through

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A woman with long dark brown hair lies in bed holding a green alarm clock that reads 3 a.m. Just when I think I’ve got my sleep issues sorted, nighttime anxiety comes knocking — and usually at the inconvenient time of 3 a.m. Waking up at night is a recurrent sleep problem for me and I’ll never tire of trying to get to the root cause of the issue.
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I went from 5 to 7 hours sleep a night using the '7:1 rule' — but only after a doctor made this key change to my routine

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The image shows a dark haired woman wearing pink pyjamas sleeping peacefully on her back in bed. Inset, two sets of graphics show sleep tracking data. . For me, decent sleep is hard to come by. I wake most mornings feeling like I haven’t slept enough and vow to make a change. And yet, more often than not, I clock around five hours of broken sleep a night. Juggling work, life and parenthood means my to-do list never ends and sleep-disrupting nighttime anxiety is the result.
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I was struggling to fall asleep, yet waking up at 3 a.m. — until an expert made this simple change to my routine

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TG Sleep Senior Writer Ruth Jones sleeps on her stomach on a comfy mattress. I haven’t had a consistently decent stint of quality sleep in over a decade. A combination of parenthood, the stressors of daily life and a poor late night social media habit (my willpower is no match for Meta) mean it’s fairly standard for me to clock anywhere between 5-6+ hours of sleep. However, a recent epiphany means I think I’ve finally cracked the code to tackling my sleep issues.
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