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10/09/2026

For years I had exactly one restful thing in my day — a walk on the beach first thing in the morning.
And I used to do push-ups on it. Squats, lunges. Because I was already out there and it seemed like a waste not to.
One piece of genuine rest in my whole day, and I turned it into another session.
Rest isn't sleep. Sleep is what happens when your system finally stands down. Rest is something you do awake, on purpose — and most men haven't got any. They've got work, and they've got unconsciousness, and they assume the second one covers it.
I lay it all out in Episode 7 — 4 Reasons You Wake At 3am. Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts.

For years I trained six days a week and would have told you, without a second’s hesitation, that the gym was how I manag...
09/09/2026

For years I trained six days a week and would have told you, without a second’s hesitation, that the gym was how I managed my stress. Meanwhile I wasn’t sleeping, my back had gone, I wasn’t recovering from anything, and I was still getting up at five to smash myself. Hard training is a good stress when you can recover from it. Without the recovery it’s just damage with better branding, and I was calling it discipline. But the bit that took me longest to see is why I kept going. Training was the one I could face — you can measure it, you can win at it. The part of my life that actually wasn’t working had no reps in it, so I left it alone. You can’t out-train that one. Episode 7 — link in bio.

08/09/2026

You can put your body through the entire stress response lying completely still in a dark room with nothing happening to you at all. Just by thinking.
You did it last week. You lay there running a conversation with your boss that hasn't happened yet, or the argument you didn't have at dinner — jaw tight, heart going, nothing actually happening. And then you wonder why you got up exhausted.
It's one of four things holding your baseline up, and it's the one nobody deals with, because it's the only one you can't buy anything for.
I break the whole lot down in Episode 7 — 4 Reasons You Wake At 3am. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

For years my beach walk first thing was the one genuinely restful thing in my whole day. So naturally I started doing pu...
07/09/2026

For years my beach walk first thing was the one genuinely restful thing in my whole day. So naturally I started doing push-ups on it. And squats, and lunges, because I was already out there and it seemed like a waste not to. I had one piece of rest in twenty-four hours and I turned it into another session, and I couldn’t for the life of me work out why I was still exhausted. Rest isn’t sleep. Sleep is what happens once your system has stood down — rest is what lets it stand down in the first place, and it’s something you have to do awake and on purpose. Pick one thing this week with no point to it whatsoever, and then leave it alone. Episode 7 — link in bio.

06/09/2026

Here's how I explained this to patients for twenty years.
You're driving along and a light comes up on your dashboard. You've got two options. You pull over and find out what it's pointing at — or you get yourself a black texta, colour the light in, and drive on telling yourself it isn't there.
Nobody does that with a car. It's mad. You'd be laughed at.
We do it with our bodies every single day. That's what a sleeping tablet is. It doesn't ask why you're awake. It just makes you not awake. The light is still on. You just can't see it any more.
I go through all of it in Episode 7 — 4 Reasons You Wake At 3am. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

I used to lie there at eleven o’clock at night having an argument with someone who was asleep in the next room, and then...
05/09/2026

I used to lie there at eleven o’clock at night having an argument with someone who was asleep in the next room, and then wonder in the morning why I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. Nothing had happened. That was the point. Your body doesn’t sit politely and watch you think — it joins in, and a man can put himself through a genuinely hard hour lying completely still in the dark. Add to that everything unfinished you’re carrying around in the background, the tax and the conversation you keep not having, and you’ve done the day twice before you’ve even got out of bed. The list was what got me out of it. Every unfinished thing written down, then knocked off one at a time. Episode 7 — link in bio.

04/09/2026

For about three months I woke at two fifty-eight in the morning. Not roughly — two fifty-eight, two fifty-nine, three-oh-one, every single night, like something had set an alarm I didn't know about.
I did all the sleep things. Darker room, cooler room, off the screens earlier. Some of it helped a bit. None of it touched it.
It took me months to work out I didn't have a sleep problem at all.
I unpack the whole thing in Episode 7 — 4 Reasons You Wake At 3am. Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts.

A few years ago my marriage ended, and in the year that followed I had four problems. A back that had gone — two disc bu...
03/09/2026

A few years ago my marriage ended, and in the year that followed I had four problems. A back that had gone — two disc bulges, and I’m a chiropractor, which was its own particular humiliation. Waking at two fifty-eight every single morning. A temper my kids were copping for nothing. And the marriage itself. Four separate things as far as I was concerned, and I went at every one of them on its own. It took me months to see I didn’t have four problems at all. I had one nervous system that was overwhelmed, and a life underneath it that wasn’t working. That’s the only question worth your time this week — not the back, not the sleep. Why isn’t my life working? Episode 7 — link in bio.

02/09/2026

Four reasons you wake at 3am, and not one of them is sleep. It's not your mattress or your melatonin — it's a nervous system telling you something is out.

For about three months of my life I woke at two fifty-eight in the morning. Not roughly — two fifty-eight, two fifty-nin...
01/09/2026

For about three months of my life I woke at two fifty-eight in the morning. Not roughly — two fifty-eight, two fifty-nine, three-oh-one, inside the same three-minute window, every night, like something had set an alarm I didn’t know about. I did all the sleep things. Darker room, cooler room, off the screens earlier. Some of it helped a bit and none of it touched it, and it took me months to see why: nothing was going wrong at three in the morning. My days were the problem. The night was just the only time quiet enough to notice. If that’s you, the question isn’t how to sleep better — it’s where your life isn’t working, and you won’t answer that one in your bedroom. Episode 7 — link in bio.

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