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Lindsay Scola: The Story We Tell About Sleep | 100 Stories #2
What if your exhaustion is not a personal failing?
Sleep educator and patient advocate Lindsay Scola lived with symptoms of narcolepsy for 19 years before receiving a diagnosis. During that time, she hid naps in public bathrooms, pushed herself to keep pace with high-performing colleagues, and believed needing sleep meant she was less capable.
In this conversation, Lindsay and I explore the cultural stories that teach us to treat sleep as lazy, inconvenient, or something we can postpone until the work is finished.
We talk about:
• The shame Lindsay carried before her narcolepsy diagnosis
•…
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