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Sleeping Strange: How to Find Safety in a New Bed Tonight | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Margaret Hood explores the psychological and biological roots of insomnia when sleeping in unfamiliar environments, offering compassionate strategies to find safety in a new bed. If you have ever experienced that hollow ache or heightened alertness while traveling, staying in a hotel, or visiting friends, this episode validates your experience as a normal evolutionary response known as the 'first-night effect.' Rather than pathologizing this natural caution, we examine how our nervous systems evolved to stay partially awake for survival, and why…
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