I’ve made something for you this week that I am very excited about. Until now, the sleep tracker in the Classroom was a Notion page. A lot of you told me the same thing: it was fiddly on a phone, and after a few days it got forgotten. I get it. Nobody wants to wrestle with a clunky table at 7am. So I built a new one. It’s a small app you keep on your home screen, and each morning it asks you about your night, one question at a time. It takes about two minutes. What you get: - A picture of each night, and your weekly pattern, so you can see what’s changing - Questions that fit your sleep type. Don’t know yours yet? The quiz link is inside. - An optional reminder email at a time you choose - Full privacy. I only see your entries if you switch on sharing, and you can switch it off any time. - How to start: 1. Open tracker.restfulsleep.eu on your phone. 2. Add it to your home screen first. The page shows you how on iPhone and Android. 3. Open it from the new icon and log in with your email. You’ll get a short code, no password. 4. Answer the setup questions, then log your first night tomorrow morning. Your first seven mornings are your baseline week. Estimates are fine, so please don’t check the clock at night. If you’ve been using the Notion tracker, switch over whenever suits you. Your Notion entries stay where they are. Once you’ve logged a night, come back here and tell us what you noticed. And if something isn’t working, comment below and I’ll help.

There's a new foundational sleep health journey in town, and if you’ve been here a while, this is for you too. I’ve built a Sleep Diagnostic Journey: a simple, step-by-step path to help you find out what’s keeping you awake, and what to do about it. No more guessing, and no more trying fixes that were never made for your kind of sleeplessness. It starts with one question: what’s your sleep type? 🔍 There are three common patterns behind sleepless nights: ⚡ Wired Body: exhausted but wired, with a body that won’t switch off at night 🔋 Overloaded Body: you fall asleep fine, then the to-do list wakes you in the night 🌀 Anxious Sleeper: worry about sleep has become part of what keeps you awake Each one needs a different starting point. Once you know yours, you’ll know where to begin and what to skip. 👉 Take the Sleep Diagnostics Quiz (5 minutes) Then find the page dedicated to your sleep type, your body-based practices, the sleep tracker, and your personal Sleep Review from me. 📓💌 💬 Once you’ve done the quiz, comment below: “My sleep type is ___.” And let us know if it resonated! Share your voice, it’s lovely to see how many of us are in the same boat. 🛶 Can’t wait to see what you discover 🌙

I’ve been thinking about this since reading a piece by Gary Vaynerchuk on Substack this week. He’s betting that analog is coming back in business, with tech doing the organising and real experiences happening offline: people trying a new restaurant, walking a supermarket aisle, showing up somewhere in person. Sleep might be the most analog thing we do. Nobody can do it on your behalf, and no device can make your body feel safe enough to let go at night. Most people I work with have tried the digital route first. They’ve checked their sleep score every morning and downloaded three meditation apps. Some of that helps. What usually shifts things for them is slower and more physical, like noticing the jaw they’ve been clenching all day, or building an evening that feels like an evening again instead of a second shift on the sofa. I use tech every day. I coach online, I’m building courses, and I’m writing this on Skool. I’m glad for all of it, because it lets me reach people I’d never meet otherwise. But the part of my work I care about most happens when someone puts the phone down and starts paying attention to how their body feels. What’s one analog thing that helps you sleep?

I've been guilty of deciding what my day would be like based on the sleep score on my (now retired) Oura ring. 🫥 Somewhere around 80? Yeah, fine. 🤝 60-70? I’d spend the morning telling myself I was going to be tired, and then, lo and behold, I would feel tired. 🥱 Some days I would be in the high 90s range and still feel like I’d been dragged through the mud. These days I pay more attention to how I feel around 3 pm. If my breathing is deep and smooth, if I am not inexplicably irritable, and if I get through the afternoon dip without needing a nap, the night was probably somewhere in the good to great range. Most of the people I work with come in with a clear idea of what good sleep is **supposed** to look like. Usually it’s an hour count or a score on an app, and a lot of the stress around sleep comes from measuring themselves against it. But what is often missing is the very personal and embodied awareness of the signals of health (or lack thereof) that our body gives us all the time. If we pay attention. So I’m curious...how do you know you slept well? ⬇️

How matched are your partner’s and your sleeping patterns? (See video below!) Sleep psychologist Michael Breus sorts people into four chronotypes: 🦁 Lion: up early, sharpest before lunch, fading by 9pm. 🐻 Bear: follows the sun. Most people are bears. Good in the late morning, slumpy after lunch. 🐺 Wolf: slow mornings, comes alive in the evening, happy to be up at 1am. 🐬 Dolphin: a light sleeper who wakes easily and often feels tired and wired. Named after dolphins, which sleep with half their brain awake. It’s a loose shorthand, and your body clock can shift with age, light and stress. It’s still a handy way to understand why one of you is chatty at 7am and the other one isn’t. Which one are you, and which one is your partner(s)? Tell me 👇