Do you struggle to fall asleep because you’re trying to keep track of what you have to do the next day?

Try this. Get a $5 daily planner. Every night before bed write down your next day’s tasks. In the morning, review the list. Cross them off the next night and write a new list.
This eliminates what’s called the Zeigarnik effect. Your brain keeps tabs open about everything you’re trying to remember. 50 open tabs slows down your processing. And you’re afraid to sleep because they’ll all close and lose your lists. So your brain fights against deep sleep.
This works for more than daily tasks. Writing down your place in any project you haven’t completed also closes a tab. Your brain recognizes that memory is outsourced and it doesn’t have to track its place in the project anymore. That gives you back processing power.
Outsourcing your memory is a great way to keep yourself low-stress during the day and get better rest at night.

All for the cost of a $5 daily planner.

Buy a planner, close your tabs, and get a better night’s sleep.

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My DMs, email, and comment sections are packed with people asking me this. Their marriage is stuck and they want to get better but don't know how.

Here's a thread of my best resources to fix this.
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Even if you've experienced abuse or trauma.

Even if you've never had an orgasm.
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Man or woman, these practices will get your motor running.
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Family friend: “My son’s middle school is out of control. Kids hooking up in the bathroom and ODing on campus.”

“Have you thought about homeschooling?”

“No, this experience prepares him for the real world.”

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Sounds like a lot of you feel the same. There’s gotta be better for our kids. Not this meat grinder that kills their spirit.
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Homeschool your kids if you don’t want them exposed to rapacious teachers and poisonous families. Public school is a meat grinder where many die. Image
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If your anxiety is about a genuinely dangerous situation, use common sense.

And make sure you’re healthy enough to do this. PTSD in particular makes this difficult due to the rapid shift in the limbic system.

This may be a goal to work up to
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If your brain is irrationally afraid of yellow socks, it could be that enough encounters will yellow socks will make the fear response extinct.

Or fear of riding the bus. Or of confrontation.
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You can’t live like this.
There’s a lot of people dunking on Trads today.

Keep in mind the modern view of traditional life has skewed into a parody where men beat every member of their family every day for fun and women cooked 18 meals by themselves each day for 34 kids

Few Americans remember our roots.
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Neither group tends to have a clear vision of what’s behind us. History is distorted if you don’t know where to look or how to assess

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