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The Hunt for the Elusive by Rivki D Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS
Life C ach
The Hunt for the Elusive
By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS
What’s sleep?
The answer all depends on who is asking.
One answer depends on if you can answer this question with this firsthand knowledge: What’s a baby nurse?
For instance, if you’ve gotten yourself a good baby nurse in the past (who affords you peace of mind and time to rest), you may actually remember what sleep is!
Otherwise, for parents of a new infant, the concept of sleep is truly a fleeting memory.
What’s sleep?
Once more, that depends on your luck. If you have the unfortunate luck that, for no apparent reason, you are having trouble falling asleep or stayemitter of it sleep soundly while you, their roommate, remains wide awake praying for a ceasefire in the all-night action.
Sleep: That thing: -Every kid runs from! -Every parent lusts after! -Every teen, amazingly, can live without! (unless it’s time to wake them for school!) -And every air traveler is hoping their pilot got enough of!
We live our lives often around our sleep schedule.
Unless, of course, we are dating our future spouse. Somehow, then, some alternate energy source keeps us going. Where it comes from, we have no clue. And where it goes when
That lethal echoing vibration we call a snore can often let the emitter of it sleep soundly while you, their roommate, remains wide awake praying for a ceasefire in the all-night action.
ing asleep and, on top of that, the added misfortune that some sleep-inducing medication is not working for you, yup – you may be thinking: yeah, what is sleep?!
What’s sleep?
That depends on if your mate is willing to use a C-pap or another effective breathing device. Otherwise, they may still know what sleep is! But you certainly don’t!
Uh-huh, that lethal echoing vibration we call a snore can often let the our first baby is born is even more of a mystery!
Still, for those of us who are functioning within the realities of day-today life, sleep is usually a necessary adjunct to that functioning! That may even be why our holiest day of the week is called the day of rest!
Sleep is like the gas for our car. It helps us keep running. And yes, there is always a search for some alternate, more efficient source of energy. Though, so far, none has come to replace a good night’s sleep.
So, then we are left with the dilemma: what’s a sleep deprived person meant to do?!
I guess, only one viable solution has reared its head so far: start dating your spouse again!
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.
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