Coaching practices for Why We Sleep Translated Into Practice After a Loss

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  • I cram late into the night and cut my sleep short to squeeze in more reps, then wake up feeling like half of it leaked out overnight
  • When things get busy and stressful, sleep is the first thing I cut to claw back hours
  • I keep stealing from sleep to fit in more training
  • Lately I’m emotionally raw and foggy even on a decent number of hours, and I’ve been having a drink to drop off plus setting an early alarm
  • I keep telling myself it doesn’t matter when I go to bed as long as I get my hours, but I wake up physically unrested no matter what

Practices that may help

  1. Rest and sleep after overlearning to consolidate gains
    Overlearning primes memory for consolidation; sleep completes the process.
    Overlearning: When Practicing Past Mastery Pays Off
  2. Treat sleep as your primary resilience deposit
    Consistent, adequate sleep is the single highest-yield resilience deposit — it restores every system that adversity will draw on.
    The Resilience Bank Account, Made Practical
  3. Why We Sleep, Translated Into Practice
    Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep argues that sleep is a non-negotiable biological process governed by two systems — sleep pressure and the circadian clock — and that protecting both REM and deep NREM sleep is central to health and cognition. The underlying science is largely sound, but the book has been credibly criticized for overstating some claims, so we flag where the popular version runs ahead of the evidence.
  4. Prioritize sleep as the primary recovery modality
    No recovery tool replaces adequate sleep — design your schedule to protect it before using any other recovery method.
    Deliberate Recovery: Making Rest a Performance Practice
  5. Protect your REM sleep
    Guard the back half of the night, when most REM and emotional processing happen.
    Why We Sleep, Translated Into Practice
  6. Value deep NREM (slow-wave) sleep
    Front-load and protect deep sleep, the most physically restorative stage.
    Why We Sleep, Translated Into Practice
  7. Construct a coherent narrative of the loss
    Tell the full story of the loss — who the person was, what happened, and what life is now.
    Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical
  8. Treating grief as a form of gratitude
    When something ends and you feel grief, recognise that the grief is proportional to the love — and let it be both.
    Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
  9. Deliberately engage loss-oriented work
    Set aside dedicated time to directly face the grief — the emotions, the absence, the meaning of the loss.
    The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
  10. Reframing loss as transformation
    When something ends or is lost, practise asking what it is becoming rather than only mourning what it was.
    Zhuangzi and the Practice of Perspective Shift

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