{"id":30625,"date":"2019-02-11T21:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=30625"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:55:41","slug":"the-guardian-from-the-cardiologist-to-the-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-guardian-from-the-cardiologist-to-the-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: From The Cardiologist To The Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"guardian19a\"<\/a>From the cardiologist to the baker: how busy people manage sleep<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today presenter Martha Kearney goes to bed at 8pm, while at 4am Toyah Willcox is going through her emails \u2013 10 people with odd work patterns reveal their bedtime routines<\/em><\/p>\n

Toyah Willcox, Singer and Actor<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have always had disrupted, broken sleep. Over a year, I could count on my fingers the times I have slept through the night. I don\u2019t think my insomnia is fixable: I think it\u2019s in my DNA. I cannot emphasise enough how important exercise is. I have to do at least a three-mile fast walk a day, usually in the afternoon. Movement is incredibly important in helping my body use up my energy. When I\u2019m disciplined enough, detoxing of stimulants and exercising is also a conscious part of my day.<\/p>\n

Routine: I take books on learning to bed \u2013 music theory, colour theory \u2013 and usually my brain thinks, \u201cUm, I think I\u2019d rather turn off,\u201d than learn something. But my natural pattern is to sleep from 11pm-1am, then I\u2019m awake till 7am and I only get into deep sleep at around 7-10am. Instead of lying there praying to go to sleep all night, I get up and work. At 4am you do feel a bit jet-lagged and brain-dead, but it\u2019s a very practical time to go through my emails, pay the bills, get rid of the mundane tasks. And there\u2019s times in the summer when I\u2019m awake as the sun is rising and I think this is the best, this is absolutely wonderful. Of course, if you have a 9-5 job this is a real problem, but as a singer, it can work well for me.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the cardiologist to the baker: how busy people manage sleep Today presenter Martha Kearney goes to bed at 8pm, while at 4am Toyah Willcox is going through her emails \u2013 10 people with odd work patterns reveal their bedtime routines Toyah Willcox, Singer and Actor I have always had disrupted, broken sleep. Over a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30628,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30625\/revisions\/30628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}