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Shift Work Survival Playbook: Sleeping Around the Clock Without Falling Apart

Duration ~36 minutes · Included in your membership

Light timing, anchor sleep, and rituals to make rotating shifts suck less

Episode at a glance
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Key question
If you can’t control your schedule, you can still control how brutally it hits your brain and body.
The problem
My shifts flip so often that my body never knows when to be awake, and my days off are just spent feeling hungover from sleep.
What you'll get
Give you a toolkit to make rotating shifts suck less: faster adjustment, less ‘shift hangover,’ and more real rest on your off days.
Description

If your schedule flips so often your body has no idea when to be awake, this episode is built for you. Nurses bouncing from nights to days, factory crews on rotating shifts, security and EMTs living on call – you’re not lazy, weak, or bad at sleep. Your biology is fighting a system that was never designed for human bodies. You know the symptoms: dragging yourself into work feeling wired and exhausted at the same time, staring at the ceiling when you should be asleep, then crashing so hard on days off that you…

Topics
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shift workcircadian rhythmrotating shiftsanchor sleepfatigue risk
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