Real sleep help, from someone who's been there.

My story

I used to be a born sleeper - head on the pillow, gone in minutes. Then, twenty-five years ago, I married a man who barely slept. I listened to him snore for eighteen years before he was finally diagnosed with sleep apnea and started using his CPAP machine. Our child had sleep trouble as a baby that turned out to be reflux. When my grandchild arrived, I got a front-row seat to every new-parent sleep regression there is.

So when I write about lying awake, about recovering after surgery, or a partner who snores - I've usually been there myself.

Then in 2018 I was diagnosed with auto-immune hepatitis, and the medication brought insomnia with it. Some nights I get three or four hours. It's taught me, the hard way, how much sleep shapes everything - how you feel, how you heal, how you cope. That's why this site exists.