Coaching practices for My Bed Has Basically Become My Office and My Couch I Answer Emails Watch Shows and Scroll There All Day So by the Time I Actually Want to Sleep My Body Treats Lying Down as a Cue to Switch on Not Wind Down

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• My bed has basically become my office and my couch
• My bed is where I scroll, watch shows, answer emails, and worry
• My bed has basically become where I scroll and watch shows, not where I sleep
• My bedroom is my office, my gym, and my entertainment room all at once
• I lie in bed for ages trying to fall asleep, and the bed has become this place where I just fail to sleep

Practices that may help

1. Restore the bedroom as a stimulus for sleep only
   Reserve the bed exclusively for sleep and sex — no working, scrolling, or watching in bed.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
2. Use the bed only for sleep (and sex)
   Reserve the bed strictly so the brain learns to associate it with sleepiness, not wakefulness.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
3. Keep screens out of the bedroom
   Reserve the bed for sleep so the space itself cues winding down.
   The Digital Sunset
4. Design the bedroom as a single-purpose sleep cue
   Make the bedroom feel and look like sleep so every environmental signal primes drowsiness.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
5. Apply stimulus control to the sleep environment
   Use the bed only for sleep and sex — no other stimulation — so your body learns that bed means sleep.
   Stimulus Control, Made Practical
6. Pair sleep restriction with stimulus control
   Use the restricted window only for sleep — not reading, screens, or lying awake — to re-pair the bed with sleepiness.
   Sleep Restriction Therapy
7. Build a no-work buffer in the final 60 minutes
   Closing work tasks at least 60 minutes before bed allows the sympathetic nervous system to downregulate before sleep is attempted.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
8. Counteract occupational sitting with deliberate after-hours NEAT
   Desk workers who add deliberate after-hours walking substantially reduce the mortality risk associated with prolonged occupational sitting.
   NEAT Thermogenesis
9. Sleep restriction therapy
   Temporarily compress your time in bed to match how much you actually sleep, then expand it as efficiency improves.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
10. Check email once more before shutdown — then close it
    Do a final pass through email to confirm nothing urgent arrived late, then close the app and leave it closed.
    The Shutdown Ritual, Made Practical

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