Sleep

Well over a decade of just really awful sleeping patterns, and yet I never really thought about all of the ways it impacted my life. I guess it’s likely none of us really think too deeply about how many little and big things are impacted over time with poor sleep. I’ve been tracking my sleep now for around 3 years, it was a feature in my first smart watch, and I decided to use it. I always knew I was sleeping like crap; I just had no clue how bad. An average of 30 minutes per day of deep sleep, even less R.E.M. sleep, and then an average of 3-4 hours of light sleep per night. Roughly 5-6 hours of sleep in total, every night for years and years. 

The Impacts of Insomnia

I also never examined my state of being too deeply over that period of time. Much like the frog placed in cool water slowly brought to a boil, the sleepless version of me just came about over the years, no one aspect glaringly obvious. In reflection, it is pretty easy to see how many personality traits were acquired over the years due to waning health stemming from my sleep cycle. Everything from the ever-increasing general frustration, the slow degradation of my energy levels, the near-depression mood changes and with all of that, the enjoyment of life. 

Enjoying life… we see it in commercials, movies, TV shows, we read about it in books, and we see it described across social media. How many of you can say with 100% honesty that you can relate to that? How many of you feel more like you’re just kind of plodding through the days, and recall that starting somewhere in your 30’s? Yeah, I imagine that’s a lot of us. And so much of that is directly related to sleep. Whether it stems from being a new parent or age or something else entirely, your sleep is in so many ways directly responsible for you struggling to enjoy each day anymore. 

Sleeping Pills, CBN, and What Finally Worked

Something must be done. Sleeping pills of course came early on in the rotation, though they were quickly discarded, I feel groggy and insane enough most days, I don’t need pills to feel that. After the sleeping aids trials, I personally just gave up, accepted the lack as a part of life and did my best to move forward. Fast forward a few years, and everyone starts talking about CBD. Mostly for pain relief, anxiety, depression etc., until the last 2 years or so. I tried CBD, from an uncountable number of companies with little to no success experienced on any level and when CBN popped up 2ish years ago, I was all over that! 

I did have some success overall in the beginning. There were a few brands that gave me a day or so reprieve, where I would get maybe 7 hours, but nothing really provided that deep sleep or worked for more than a few days. The smartwatch tells all, my stress levels, outlook and sleep all quickly went back to the norm. Lucky me however, I had a coworker one day gift me a bottle of gummies from a company I’d seen around here and there but hadn’t tried yet. “Rest by Roka”, and I figured why the heck not. This particular coworker being one of those people that seem to be eternally cheerful, energetic, basically everything I’d lost over the years. 

CBN Product Experience

This next bit may not be hard to guess; I ended up subscribing. That bottle carried me nearly 4 full weeks, by week 2 I realized I may have stumbled upon a gold mine, by week 3 I started feeling what can only be described as whole again at which point I decided I would never go another night without these. It took around 2 months for me to realize that I felt different, I was less angry, I was accomplishing more, both at work and home, I was feeling joyful, laughing more, I had energy again. By month 3 I was willing to admit that a little gummy had changed my life. Month 4 and I realized that my poor sleep had created an alternate version of myself, that so many of the things I had seen as personality traits were actually health complications stemming from my body running on a half charge for years. 

Sleep Is Vital

The moral of the story is pretty simple. Sleep is vital. Your body can not truly be at it’s best when you aren’t getting restful sleep, when you are constantly pushing yourself without taking the time to heal. Your mind is no different, it is constantly dealing with the repercussions of that inability to fully recharge. Over time those things will erode your very essence, take away your ability to be yourself. I feel as if I finally can live, like I shed my skin and now I’m all shiny and new again. Taking a step back, it is a little crazy to think about too; this is simply a formulation of an extraction from a plant that can grow basically anywhere. Yet I can see the numbers right on my wrist; I can see the daily change in my stress, I can see the far bigger workload I have taken on, I can see my experience reflected in positivity, I can feel the strength flooding my body again. 

If you’re still reading this, what are you waiting for? I’m betting at least some of this rang true for you, you’ve got everything to gain and nothing to lose. Regardless of how many sleep aids, how many other CBN/CBD supplements you’ve tried, this one will change your life. Now make it happen.