What is Unrefreshing Sleep?
Unrefreshing sleep is a universal symptom in all the diseases discussed on this website—ME, CFS, FM, ES, long COVID and chronic pain.
- The brain and body need good quality sleep to recover and repair properly.
- Insufficient sleep is associated with many health problems, including problems with memory and thinking, metabolism and obesity, immune function, physical function and fertility.
- Sleep is critical to having the energy and motivation to learn and try strategies to improve your health.
- That means improving sleep early on will enable other health strategies to work better.
- Sleep problems include trouble getting to and staying asleep, waking too early and waking unrefreshed.
The good news is that there are research-proven strategies to improve sleep quality and daytime refreshment.
Online Courses
Self-Study Course
Pathway 3: Sleep
Better sleep means less pain and more comfort. Wake more refreshed and have more energy to enjoy life by learning proven self-management strategies for more effective sleep.
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Pathways to Improvement
Sleep is an important pillar of getting and staying better; sleep is where you heal. Learn to take charge of your health to help you feel and live better. Self-management works!
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Pathways In Action
Learn to individualize and optimize your self-management with the support of a mentor and group. Ask all your questions about sleep in these live sessions.
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Live! with Dr. Stein
Evidence-based presentations and Q&A with Dr. Stein. Credible, science-based and cutting edge information about how to live longer and healthier.
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Sleep Testing & Treatment in Complex Chronic Conditions
Dr. Charles Samuels discusses how to measure sleep, the types of sleep studies available, the pros and cons of sleep medications, wearable trackers, and the most effective treatments for people with complex chronic diseases.
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Let Your Light Shine Through
In this manual, Dr. Stein shares the strategies she has found to be the most successful for patients in her 35-year medical practice working with ME, CFS, FM, ES, chronic pain, and more recently, long Covid. Readers are guided through a 286-page, 4-month program specific to these conditions. Let Your Light Shine Through is filled with practical, no-to-low-cost management suggestions, tools and resources. Formats available: hardcopy coil-bound and digital download.Â
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More Light
Building upon Let Your Let Shine Through, More Light contains up-to-date, science-based information, clinical approaches, and affordable interventions that you can do on your own. Currently, only individual chapters are available at affordable prices. Choose the subjects tailored specifically to your health needs. Current topics are Self-management, Diagnosis, Biology of Change, Sleep, and Energy and Activity.
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How to Get Restorative Sleep
Presented by Dr. Eleanor Stein
October 10, 2024.
This webinar was presented in partnership with Munira Jiwa, a Qigong Master who teaches how to achieve calm using the ancient art of Qigong. In this webinar, Dr. Stein presented tips and techniques for getting better sleep. The live webinar was very well attended, and there were many questions in the Q&A that are included in the recording.