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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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole

You can sleep eleven hours and wake up feeling like you never slept at all.


That's not laziness. It's not a character flaw. It's Idiopathic Hypersomnia, a chronic neurological sleep disorder where the brain's "wake" signal doesn't fire the way it should.


The exhaustion is invisible. The naps don't refresh. The mornings feel like wading through fog (and "sleep drunkenness" is the actual term for it). Because IH is rare and hard to see, so many people wait years to be believed, often mistaken for depression, or just "tired."


This Saturday, June 13, is the 3rd Annual Idiopathic Hypersomnia Day. The theme is Where in the World is Idiopathic Hypersomnia?, a global community, often silent and exhausted, finally raising its voice together.


If you've ever felt unseen in your own tiredness: you're not imagining it, and you're not alone.


🤍 Save this for the days the fog wins.

🤍 Share it with someone who's always tired.

🤍 Follow for more on the sleep disorders no one talks about.


Tomorrow they feel seen. Today, that starts with you.

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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole

The newest episode of Sleep Is My Waking Passion means more to me than I can fully explain.

It’s my first international episode, filmed live in London with a full studio setup, and the first episode since we reached 100,000 subscribers.

But more than that, it feels like the start of a new era for the podcast: more intention, more focus, and a much bigger mission.

In this episode, I sit down with award-winning ENT sleep surgeon Dr. Dr. Ryan Chin Taw Cheong to talk about why sleep apnea is still so underdiagnosed, why CPAP does not work for every patient, when ENT evaluation matters, and what the future of mask-free sleep apnea treatment could look like.

This conversation is exactly where I hoped the podcast would go.

I can’t wait for you to watch it: https://youtu.be/Aqy_O6Cj-SA

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Sleep is My Waking Passion™ ft. Dr. Alison Kole

As I make my way back to New Jersey from London, I refreshed the Sleep is My Waking Passion® YouTube channel and saw something I will never forget:



100,000 subscribers.





I am overwhelmed with gratitude.





This milestone feels different from anything I have experienced before.





Becoming a doctor was one of the great honors of my life, but seeing this community grow has shown me how far sleep education can reach beyond the exam room.





Every day, I have the privilege of helping patients understand their sleep, their health, and their quality of life.





Through this platform, that mission has expanded to more than 100,000 people who are choosing to learn, ask questions, and take sleep seriously.





What started as a passion project has become a community — one that has taken me to places, conversations, and opportunities I never could have imagined.





To every subscriber, guest, patient, colleague, and supporter who has been part of this journey: thank you.





Sleep truly is my waking passion, and I am so grateful that 100,000 of you have made it part of yours too.





Here’s to continuing the mission of making sleep health education more accessible, practical, and life-changing.

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