Work went from dead quiet to slammed overnight and now my sleep schedule is completely wrecked.
I used to at least fall asleep around midnight, wake up, get through the day. Now I’m up way past when I should be, then crashing hard in the afternoon and missing half the day anyway.
It’s the freelance thing, feast or famine, no in-between. When it’s quiet I can’t fall asleep because I’m anxious about work drying up, and when it’s slammed I can’t fall asleep because my brain won’t stop running through deadlines.
Tried the usual stuff, no phone before bed, tea, stretching. Doesn’t touch it!
(The cats have zero sympathy either, they sleep fine no matter what.)
Anyone else deal with this feast or famine kind of schedule wrecking their sleep, and did anything actually work for you, not just the standard advice?