Get the
Sleep
You Need
By Samantha Rideout
and Corey WhelanM
ary Ladd was cursed with
a spouse who could sleep
through anything. “My insom-
nia was so lonely, because I could hear
him sleeping in bed next to me,” says
the 45-year-old San Francisco writer
and mother of one. “The fact that he
could sleep through the night—and
I couldn’t—reminded me that my
eyeballs were dry and tired.” Part of
her problem, she knew, was that she
had some bad habits: too much great
San Francisco coffee, for one. But
some of it felt out of her control. AScience-backed
strategies for
superior slumber
36 may 2019
Reader’s Digest
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