Don't you dare sleep with your phone | Mel Robbins #Shorts

Don't you ever, ever, ever sleep with

your

phone. You have to put your phone in the

bathroom. And the reason is simple. I'm

not even going to talk about all the

studies about how the phone in the room

simply next to you interrupts your

sleep. I'm going to talk about something

that happens when you wake up. So, the

phone's next to you, right? And you're

lying in bed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so,

you know, the alarm goes off and you

pick up the phone and here you are.

Yeah.

You aren't even vertical

yet and you have just allowed the world

news and a thousand strangers on

Instagram into your bedroom. You're

checking emails and text messages and

you wonder why you're stressed out and

exhausted. You're not even out of bed

and you have put all this other stuff in

your brain which means you are now the

last thing on the

list. And if you lay there and start

scrolling and it activates your stress

response, it's absolutely takes longer

to get out of bed. Correct. And anxiety

is higher for people in the morning.

Oprah, if you grew up in a traumatic

household or you experienced abuse,

poverty, bigotry, racism when you were

little, you had a chaotic experience. If

you're waking up in the morning and the

first thing you experience is anxiety,

it is a sign of stored

trauma. That's why a lot of people have

anxiety first thing in the morning.

It's stored trauma. Yes.