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A Behavioral Psychologist's Tips to Identifying and Managing Stress Styles with Dr. Jemma King

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The Importance of REM Sleep

One of the things that we hear a ton from members is just waking up at, you know, 1 a.m or 2 a.m. And I suppose if I'm managing kind of my emotions and my stress really proactively throughout the day, is that actually what's happening? Like, is there a... What's kind of happening in the brain during that moment of waking? Yeah, this is ... It's something I get asked all the time. We don't know for sure why people will wake at 2 a.M. every morning or 3 a.m., but there are a lot of theories. The REM part of your sleep has a very important forgetting function as well

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