The creator explains why people self-sabotage by staying up late, detailing the negative hormonal effects of increased cortisol and suppressed melatonin. She posits that this behavior stems from a search for satisfaction and unmet needs, then shares her personal story of feeling overwhelmed as a new mother. She outlines her solution: integrating personal fulfillment activities like exercise, reading, and cleaning alongside her child during the day, which led to a greater sense of satisfaction and eliminated the need to stay up late to find 'me time'.
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Transcript
I just had this conversation with the women in our online community, and I was like, I'm gonna have this conversation on Instagram as well. We know that going to bed past 10PM, 11PM, going into the midnight hours, we get this second wind of energy. It's because of cortisol. So cortisol is rising when you get into those hours. It's suppressing melatonin. It's disrupting our sleep. It's sabotaging our energy the next day. It's actually elevating stress hormones as a baseline. It's creating stubborn weight. So if we know this, why do we keep doing this? 62 of you guys that I've told my audience says that you're going to bed in these hours. My theory is that the reason that women are staying up so late, even though we know that it's sabotaging our day the next day, is because we're seeking this sense of satisfaction. We think that after our kids are going to sleep is the only time that we can get in that zone. I need the time for myself. I need the time to catch up on this and this. I had this wake up call myself when my husband was working twelve hour days, and I was literally forced to reckon with, okay, Do I wait until the end of the day when he's coming home past dark and then we're swapping places and I'm trying to fit everything into that window? It just did not feel sustainable to me. I felt like something was largely missing. No when it was just me and my firstborn, I knew I wanted to master the art of integrating my kids into my everyday life. So what did I do? I canceled my gym membership. I started working out with my son. I recorded an entire backyard workout with your kids. No equipment needed. Just lifting your kids. Comment movement, and I will send that to you. I started taking a book with me everywhere when we went to the park, when we went to beaches, when we went into nature, and I would read a chapter a day of a book. Number three, I learned the ability to clean my house along with my child. So once he was down, I good to do whatever I wanted to do. And what happened is because I had satisfied so many of our needs together during the day, that sense of satisfaction was there. At the end of the day, when your kids are asleep, you are starting the evening with a sense of fullness and satisfaction, not emptiness, and then trying to grasp and fill your cup back up. It's just sabotaging your next day. You are just decreasing in energy over time. Satisfaction doses, guys. You heard it here first.