3 am Wake-Ups Aren't a Hormone Problem, They're a Priority Problem

About this episode

Lisa Carpenter discusses how 3 am wake-ups are more about prioritization than hormonal issues.

Are you waking up at 3 am with a mind full of nothing specific and everything urgent? You’re not running through one big crisis. You’re running through fifty small commitments, an inbox you haven’t cleared, conversations you haven’t had, and responsibilities you never should have taken on in the first place. And if you’re a woman right now, the world is very eager to tell you it’s your hormones. But in this episode, Master Coach Lisa Carpenter is naming what’s actually keeping you awake, and it has everything to do with your priorities. After more than two decades coaching founders, executives, entrepreneurs, physicians, and high-capacity leaders, Lisa has seen this pattern consistently: the people waking up at 3 am aren’t carrying one big problem. They’re carrying fifty small commitments, too many open loops, and a volume of responsibility that their body has quietly decided to stop tolerating. Sleep is where the symptom shows up, but the problem starts long before bedtime. The 3 am wake-up isn’t your body betraying you. It’s your body finally having the conversation you’ve been refusing to have with your calendar. There is a version of busy that looks like high performance from…

People in this episode

Host: Lisa Carpenter

Topics covered

• priorities
• sleep issues
• women's health
• commitments
• high performance

Keywords

• 3 am wake-up
• hormones
• commitments
• responsibilities
• sleep problems

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