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Lauren Jeffries

I was waking up at 3 a.m. for weeks — these 3 relaxation techniques help me fall back asleep fast again

A woman wearing a gray silk payjama top lies back in bed in a darkened room.

I’m not alone in struggling with 3am wakeups. In fact, when I spoke to family, friends and colleagues, almost all of them had described experiencing something similar at some point.

But what frustrated me most was the inability to fall back asleep. This meant sometimes I’d be awake and staring at the clock right through to 7am when my alarm finally sounded.

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