I have trouble sleeping a lot too! Here are a few tips I found help:
- A warm cup of chamomile tea before bed
- White noise (my favorite is soft rain, but I also love waves)
- A comfort blanket
- Sleeping with a blanket under me instead of just the sheet...it feels more like a hug.
- Positive thoughts or reading something comfortable so that you don't sleep on an anxious thought topic. Stargazing also helps with this.
- Flipping my mattress over every few weeks. For some reason my body will get tired of how it feels and will stay awake. And then when I flip it over, I can sleep again.
- Having a plan for if I wake up in the middle of the night. Instead of lying there counting the minutes until my alarm goes off, I try to enjoy the silence and read or make up little fairy stories or something.
- There are also natural sleep pills you can take. My mom gets them at the local health-food store and they help a lot without actually being a "drug." They also usually wear off in a few hours, so it doesn't affect getting up.

Hope some/one of these helps!

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Lil Miss Hobbit

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Camomile tea (sometimes), reading, getting off devices/tv at least 30 mins before (I wish I could do that more often), making up scenarios in my head.

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Huddo's sister

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Petting my dog

Reading specific parts of books over and over, just scenes that make me happy

If all else fails, I put my pillow at the foot of my bed and sleep backwards.

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GhostlySnail (she/her)

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