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Night Shift: Sleep For The Underfed
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Night Shift: Sleep For The Underfed

For the nights when your day was “fine” on paper but your body climbs into bed feeling quietly, stubbornly empty.

Tonight’s Night Shift is the long, slow one for women who went through a “fine” day and still climbed into bed feeling weirdly hollow.

You know the shape of it: you answered the messages, kept everyone else regulated, ticked enough boxes to call it a normal day, and yet something in you feels like it lived on crumbs. Nothing was catastrophic, but you also cannot name a single moment that actually fed you back.

In this episode we name that quiet emotional work, separate “I am dramatic” from “I am underfed”, and then stay with you in bed while you try one small ritual of emotional nourishment so your body does not fall asleep thinking it went another whole day unfed.

Press play on the nights when you are lying there thinking, “I know I ate, but why do I still feel empty?” and you need someone to sit at the edge of the bed, say “Of course you are tired,” and feed you one true sentence before you sleep.

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