Stress often wakes me up in the middle of the night — why it happens and how sound therapy is helping me sleep better

A woman stays awake in the night because she needs to fix her sleep schedule.

Stress has a tendency to sneak up on me. One minute I'm perfectly relaxed, the next it's 3am and I'm staring at the ceiling, with some nebulous, undefined worry keeping me awake. Is stress stopping my sleep without me even realizing?

Underlying stress can be hard to deal with — you can't fix a problem when there's no obvious cause. I've experimented with many ways to reduce stress before bed, including sound therapy, which allows me to target the stress I'm not aware of.