Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. We've interviewed over 100 authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and others to help you learn strategies to care for your mental health.

This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.

Okay. Do you struggle to fall asleep?

Do you think that you just don't get enough sleep?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, you've come to the right place.

My guest today is Diane Macedo.

She's an anchor for ABC News.

She's also a former insomniac.

She started looking into sleep problems when she found herself struggling to sleep,

even when she was taking sleeping pills.

She uncovered that there are a lot of misconceptions about sleep and some simple strategies that can help people sleep better. Now she's written a book called The Sleep Fix.

It shares what she uncovered when she read countless studies and interviewed a variety of sleep

experts. The strategies she learned worked for her, and she's confident they can help you sleep better, too.

Some of the things she talks about today are some of the biggest myths about sleep, the strategies

that can help you sleep better, and the realistic ways to get better quality sleep.

Make sure to stick around until the end of the episode for the therapist's take.

It's a part of the show where

I'll break down Diane's strategies and talk about how you can apply them to your own life.

So here's Diane Macedo on how fixing your sleep can help you grow mentally stronger.

Diane Macedao, welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. Amy, thanks so much for having me.

I'm excited to talk to you for lots of reasons,

but one of them being that you wrote this book, The Sleep Fix, out of your own sort of necessity,

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