I spent a decade in the dark, watching patients through a glass partition while they were wired to headboxes, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that we are terrible at understanding what “rest” actually means. Somewhere along the way, the wellness industry decided that learning how to rest with young children required a $200 weighted blanket, a subscription to a meditation app, and a complete overhaul of your lifestyle. It’s nonsense. Most parents I see in the clinic aren’t suffering from a physiological inability to relax; they are simply trying to apply “self-care” logic to a life…

I spent ten years in the dark, watching patients struggle through the night while tethered to a headbox, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that people are remarkably bad at managing their own recovery. We’ve been sold this expensive, high-performance lie that “optimising” your downtime requires expensive supplements or complex biohacking routines. In reality, most people who spend their Sunday nights dreading Monday aren’t suffering from a lack of expensive magnesium; they are simply failing at understanding how weekends should work from a physiological standpoint. They treat Saturday like a marathon and Sunday like a recovery ward,…