Anxiety Is Destroying Your Sleep — And Your Sleep Is Making Your Anxiety Worse

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Mar 18, 2026 · 51m

You lie awake because you are anxious. Then you are more anxious the next day because you did not sleep. That loop is not a coincidence and it is not a character flaw — it is a physiological cycle that feeds itself until something interrupts it. Most people treat the anxiety or the sleep but never the connection between them. Megan Mazzocco has spent her career studying exactly that connection — as a wellbeing strategist, founder of Wellbeing by Design, and author of The Sleep System — and what she shares about why sleep deprivation quietly amplifies every anxiety symptom you are already…