IN 2020, Wayne Tan, then 29, was stressed about getting enough sleep for his optometry-board certification exam—so much so that it led to chronic insomnia. When meds “didn’t get to the root of the problem,” Tan says, he found research on how changing your thinking about rest might help. With the aid of a sleep coach, “I slowly reformed my thoughts,” he says. Now that he’s board certified (it’s official!), he sleeps seven to eight hours a night. These strategies finally let him rest. SLEEP
