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Sleep Rhythm and Midnight Habits
Dear Conscience, I am rethinking my evening and night planning, so as to take into account my ”sleepiness waves”. Basically I would like to have an evening routine, and my intention is for it to happen after I put my daughter to sleep. However, often I get sleepy and fall asleep together with her. I’ve tried Continue reading
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A Night Fix
Dear Conscience, After a system breakdown like yesterday, I can’t seem to avoid several additional wagons going off rail that maybe could have been kept on track. For example, I was so wired that I couldn’t sleep. And even though I made a good effort for a couple of times to just go to bed Continue reading
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Hard Line Between Awake Time and Sleep Time
On this Tuesday, when my focus is time, I am faced with having to implement a very basic concept: separate the part of the day when I’m in bed sleeping, and when I’m awake doing things. I am stuck in a very unsustainable dynamic, where my daughter cannot sleep unless she is in physical contact Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 