Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
Hi, I’m Dr. Alison Kole — The R.E.S.T. Architect 💤, building a better blueprint to transform your sleep
Board-certified Sleep Medicine doctor 🩺 and chronic insomniac turned sleep health advocate🧠
I help you improve your sleep naturally through:
✨ Mind-body connection
💗 Self-love
🌿 Holistic strategies
💡 Women’s health + cutting-edge sleep science
Tune in for expert insights and real solutions to help you build a better sleep blueprint.
Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
Your child can seem full of energy and still need sleep.
Restlessness, irritability and getting more wound up can be signs of too little rest.
According to parent reports in the National Sleep Foundation’s 2026 poll, 44% of U.S. children ages 0–13 aren’t consistently getting the recommended sleep for their age.
I spoke with Dr. Joseph Dzierzewski about what families can do, from recognizing those clues to moving bedtime conversations into calmer daytime moments.
Swipe through for the takeaways, including a sleep-hours guide worth saving.
The full article is linked here: alisonkole.substack.com/p/nearly-half-of-american-…
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
From racing against narcolepsy to Victory Lane 🏁
When Vincent Arthur joined me, we talked about brain fog, self-advocacy, and balancing racing, engineering, college, and life with Type 2 narcolepsy.
Now, he is celebrating a race win.
Congratulations, Vincent! What an incredible moment and a meaningful new chapter in your story.
Revisit Season 7, Episode 6, “NASCAR, Brain Fog, & Racing Against Narcolepsy”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KreNJ...
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
Read the full back-to-school sleep reset here:
alisonkole.substack.com/p/the-back-to-school-sleep…
Our summer sleep schedule drifted, too—and I’m a sleep doctor.
The right next step depends on your child. Is it bedtime limit testing, anxiety, or a teen’s body clock running late?
I spoke with pediatric sleep specialist Dr. Sujay Kansagra about those differences, the transition to school mornings, and weekend catch-up sleep.
The full article is in Diary of a Sleep Doctor on Substack. 🌙
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
Your kid’s body clock does not know school starts Monday. 😅
After a summer of late nights and slow mornings, getting sleep back on track can feel impossible.
And one of the biggest takeaways? A consistent wake-up time may actually matter more than a consistent bedtime.
In the newest episode, I sit down with pediatric sleep specialist Dr. Sujay Kansagra to break down what parents need to know about toddlers, teens, summer sleep drift, morning light, naps, melatonin and resetting the body clock before school: https://youtu.be/LDgnM6BtBL4
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
Your biggest sleep problem may not be caffeine, screens, or stress.
It may be what you believe about sleep.
After Dr. Chris Winter asked me to identify the biggest threats I see in clinic, I realized many of them are not habits. They are assumptions.
The pressure to achieve “perfect” sleep.
The belief that one supplement, gadget, or routine works for everyone.
The fear of receiving a diagnosis.
The idea that sleep exists separately from nutrition, movement, mental health, and the rest of your life.
In my latest edition of Diary of a Sleep Doctor, I break down the 10 biggest threats to sleep that I see every week in clinic.
Some may surprise you. One may hit a little too close to home.
Read the full article here: alisonkole.substack.com/p/the-top-10-threats-to-yo…
Which threat do you think is affecting your sleep the most?
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
Tomorrow morning in Seoul marks a very special milestone for me.
I’m honored to join Dr. Hee Jin Kim, MD, a board-certified geriatrician and creator of Dr. Pureen, for a fully booked Morning Doc: Sleep and Well-Aging conversation at Flour Artisan Bakery Sinsa.
We’ll explore how sleep affects the body, skin, aging, and the daily habits that can support a longer and healthier life.
A special thank you to Dr. Ryan Chin Taw Cheong for helping us take the first steps toward expanding this work internationally. Your support helped open the door for conversations like this one, and I’m incredibly grateful.
From building a platform around sleep education to now sharing that mission in South Korea, this feels like the beginning of an exciting new chapter.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
📅 August 4 at 8:00 AM
The session is officially fully booked. I cannot wait to meet everyone joining us tomorrow morning.
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
What if the 3pm crash at your desk isn't a coffee problem, but a recovery problem?
That's where my head went this week on Sleep Is My Waking Passion, with Dr. Abhinav Singh MD, MPH, FAASM, "The Sleep Vigilante," sleep physician for the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever, and author of Sleep to Heal.
Here's what struck me. The tired we feel at work is often the same tired he sees in elite athletes. We've just learned to mask it with a second coffee and one more push.
If you're wrecked by Thursday, this episode is for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Peg...
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
GLP-1s and hormone therapy are not interchangeable, and in midlife, the order may matter more than you think.
Rapid weight loss can come with muscle loss, while hormonal changes can affect metabolism, sleep, and body composition. The goal is not simply to lose weight. It is to protect your long-term health along the way.
In the full conversation, me and dietitian Marissa Sharkey break down what to consider first, who may need to wait, and why preserving muscle should be part of the plan.
Full Episode: https://youtu.be/n05sDtQznEc
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
PTSD is not something you simply have to live with.
As a sleep medicine physician, I often hear from patients whose trauma shows up most vividly at night — through nightmares, disrupted sleep, hypervigilance, and fear of going back to bed.
In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Courtney Worley to talk about one of the biggest myths about PTSD: that if someone has lived with trauma for years, it is too late to treat it.
It is not.
We discuss why nightmares are not “just bad dreams,” why waking someone during a nightmare may not always be helpful, and how evidence-based treatments can support recovery even decades later.
Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/o58ODe2-6-M?si=pq9wt...
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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole
11 years ago today, Sean welcomed Lily into this world and this girl changed him in the best way possible. Happy Father’s Day and Happy Birthday to two of my favorite humans on the planet ❤️
#fathersday
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