Life in Inuvik: Inuvik, Canada, offers continuous sunlight in summer and long darkness in winter, challenging residents’ sleep cycles. Yet, people like Addie Scott adapt remarkably to these extremes, showcasing human resilience and the unique beauty of the Arctic landscape.
Living in a place like Inuvik, Canada, means experiencing extremes in sunlight and darkness, which can be challenging for residents. Addie Scott shares her journey adapting to the never-ending summer days and long winter nights, highlighting the uniqueness of life in the Arctic and the human ability to acclimate to unusual environments. Despite the difficulties, such as confusing sleep cycles and health risks, people have thrived in these conditions for thousands of years. Inuvik showcases an extraordinary landscape of clear waters, dense forests, and breathtaking northern lights, presenting both beauty and challenges. Understanding how individuals adapt to these environments reveals remarkable resilience and creativity, showing how humanity can adjust to even the most extreme circumstances while living in harmony with nature.
Light and Dark: Extreme light and dark in certain areas affect daily life, sleep, and plants. 'Operation Nighttime' helps manage sleeplessness in summer, while winter brings beauty with Northern Lights. Gardening adapts seasonally, showing the importance of light and darkness in life.
Living in a place with extreme light and dark can be both challenging and beautiful. In summer, there’s almost constant daylight, which makes it hard to sleep, so people play a game called 'Operation Nighttime' to prepare their homes for sleep. In winter, the darkness comes with the stunning Northern Lights, making it magical. Gardening also changes with the seasons; plants thrive in the long light of summer and change significantly as days get shorter. This unique environment profoundly affects daily life and activities, highlighting how important light and darkness are for sleep and growth.
Seasonal Living: Extreme seasonal changes impact how people live, celebrate, and adapt behaviors. Summer encourages outdoor activity, while winter focuses on crafts. Celebrations unite communities during transitions, and individuals adjust sleep patterns to cope with varying light levels.
Living in places with extreme seasonal changes dramatically influences people's lifestyles and behaviors. In summer, the long daylight hours encourage outdoor activities and social gatherings, while winter prompts a more hibernative lifestyle focusing on crafts and staying indoors. Celebrations marking the transition between seasons, like the sunrise festival in January, bring communities together. People adapt their sleep patterns to cope with fewer hours of darkness during summer and longer periods in winter, fostering a unique rhythm. Sharing these experiences with locals can foster connection and understanding, showcasing the resilience of communities in the face of nature's extremes.
Light and Sleep: Light and darkness are essential for regulating our sleep cycles. Melatonin signals night, but light exposure at night can disrupt our natural rhythms, affecting sleep quality.
Light plays a crucial role in regulating our sleep-wake cycles. Our eyes detect light to help set our 24-hour body clock, signaling when to wake, sleep, and eat. For those who cannot perceive light, like some blind individuals, their natural rhythms can become disrupted, leading to issues living in a world based on day and night. Melatonin, a hormone produced by the body, signals nighttime, helping us understand when it's time to sleep. However, exposure to light at night can confuse our body clocks, preventing melatonin production and making us feel more awake. Thus, maintaining a proper light-dark cycle is vital for healthy sleep patterns.
Bi-phasic Sleep: Bi-phasic sleeping, common before electricity, reflected natural sleep patterns. Artificial light disrupts our sleep, health, and hormone cycles. Returning to natural light-dark cycles may improve sleep and overall health by aligning better with our biological rhythms.
Bi-phasic sleeping, a historical pattern where people slept shortly after sunset, reflects natural human rhythms before artificial light existed. The use of electric light has shifted our sleep patterns, causing us to sleep less and stay up later. Our bodies respond to natural light and dark cycles, impacting hormone production, mood, and overall health. Disruption of these cycles, such as for shift workers, can lead to serious health risks like heart disease and depression due to hormonal and metabolic imbalances. Returning to a natural light-dark cycle could help restore healthier sleep patterns and enhance overall well-being. So, simply avoiding artificial light after dusk might help us regain more restful sleep and better align with our natural biological rhythms.
Optimizing Sleep: To improve sleep, create a dark environment before bedtime, avoid screens, and engage in relaxing activities like reading or meditation in dim light.
Light significantly influences our sleep and biological rhythms. For better sleep, especially in regions with extreme daylight variations, it’s crucial to create a dark environment in the hours leading up to bedtime. Engaging in relaxing activities like reading with dim lighting, meditating, or taking warm baths can help calm the brain, promote better sleep quality, and help maintain alertness. Avoid screens and bright lights before sleep as they can be stimulating. With consistent practices, like limiting light exposure and incorporating relaxation techniques, you can improve both sleep duration and quality, leading to overall better well-being.
When the Sun Doesn’t Sleep
Recent Episodes from 4 Things with Amy Brown
Navigating Narcissism, Social Etiquette, & Embracing Imperfections (5th Thing)
Kat is back from her honeymoon!! While Kat was gone, Amy messed up a podcast & we got a voicemail line!! We want to hear from you! Give us a call at 877-207-2077 to leave us a message (don’t forget to say your name & where you’re from!)
Amy & Kat played and respond to some of our voicemails about:
* Dealing with someone that’s a narcist, not overutilizing the term, and why someone doesn’t need to be a narcist to be someone that you don’t want to be with
* Tips on how to greet people when you don’t know if you’ve met them before
* Not feeling bad about yourself when you mess something up – things happen, just roll with it!
* Letting other people know about your mistakes makes it less shameful (shoutout to our listener Ami and her podcast, The Honey Bee Hill)!
* Plus, Amy’s sister just met Mel Robbins randomly in a hotel lobby - did she high five her or hug her??
Today’s quote: “I did a lot of things, not in the right way. Some may even call them mistakes. I just call them scars that keep me from touching the oven too long when it’s hot.” – Cleo Wade
ICYMI - check out Amy’s episode with Chase: How to Move On After You’ve Messed Up, Embracing Surrender, Gratitude, and Generosity
Email: 4ThingsWithAmyBrown@gmail.com
Voicemail line: 877-207-2077
HOSTS:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
Kat Defatta // @Kat.Defatta // @YouNeedTherapyPodcast // YouNeedTherapyPodcast.com
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5 Signs Your Food Struggles Actually Have NOTHING To Do With Food (Sign #1: Obsessed Yet Unresolved) (Outweigh)
OUTWEIGH: Ever feel like you're stuck in a never-ending loop of thoughts about food, your body, or your weight?
Join us for the first episode of our series 5 Signs Your Food Struggles Actually Have NOTHING To Do With Food, where we delve into the perplexing phenomenon of spending countless hours fixating on these issues, yet still feeling utterly unfulfilled.
We'll uncover the open loop in your mind, where the absence of a to-the-root healing strategy perpetuates the obsession. Tune in as we explore why your subconscious knows there's more to the story, and how to break free from the cycle once and for all.
HOSTS:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington
To learn more about re-wiring your brain to heal from the all-or-nothing diet mentality for good....but WITHOUT restricting yourself, punishing your body, (and definitely WITHOUT ever having to use words like macros, low-carb, or calorie burn) check out Leanne's FREE Stressless Eating Webinar @ www.StresslessEating.com
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How to Move On After You've Messed Up, Embracing Surrender, Gratitude and Generosity
FIRST THING: We all screw up once and a while. Amy & Chase talk about what you can do when it happens so that you're able to move forward vs. getting stuck because of a mistake.
SECOND THING: Encouragement to let go of what is no longer serving you, stop resisting & surrender.
THIRD THING: Gratitude. Amy & Chase share 4 things they're thankful for!
FOURTH THING: Giving back + Be a Craig + One Country's Lake House Giveaway
Email: 4ThingsWithAmyBrown@gmail.com
Voicemail line: 877-207-2077
HOST:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
Guest:
Chase Locke // @chaselocke_
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Amy's Latest Obsessions: 'Who TF Did I Marry' & More (5th Thing)
Amy has started the viral tik tok Who TF Did I Marry from Reesa Teesa about her marriage to a narcissistic, manipulative liar and she's obsessed. It is a 52-part story that we should all pay attention to when dating...especially if using apps.
Amy's other obsessions:
-Humm Kombucha (mango passionfruit)
-Nike Air Monarch Sneakers
-Chamomile Lavender tea with raw honey and lemon before Bed
-Betty Buzz & WithCo
Today's Quote:
“No people find each other more absurd than lovers” ― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
If you ever need help navigating narcissism, make sure you follow Dr. Ramani on IG!
We now have a podcast voicemail line! CALL US!!! The '4 Things' podcast phone number is 877-207-2077. Amy (and Kat) would love to hear from you.
There's also a 4 Things Podcast Instagram now (will be doing a giveaway there soon, so make sure to follow!)
Email us: 4ThingsWithAmyBrown@gmail.com
FYI: Kat will be back from her honeymoon next week, but we are thankful to have Jeremiah fill in for her!
Have the day you need to have. Byyyyyyeeee!!
HOST:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
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PART 2: Do You WANT to Stop Dieting, But You Have No Idea What That Even Looks Like (and the alternative terrifies you!)? Let's Talk About It! (Outweigh)
OUTWEIGH: Leanne is back for Part 2 of this series to help you understand how to get off the diet roller coaster for good.
So many women WANT to stop dieting, but they don't know how, or they don't know what that even looks like, because it's all they've ever known.
So this idea of "food freedom" or NOT being on some sort of diet is not only foreign to them, but it's actually pretty scary, because all their brain has known is what it's like to count, measure, restrict, and control.
Or their brain knows what it's like to bounce to the opposite end of the spectrum, and end up in an uncontrollable cycle of mindless eating, emotional eating, stress eating, or binging, and they just end up feeling super out-of-control.
This week Leanne is laying out the 5 step crystal-clear path way to finally STOP dieting without feeling like you're going off the deep end if you're NOT on something.
HOST: @leanneellington
To learn more about how to turn off the part of your brain that’s obsessed with food or obsessed with your weight and rewire your own brain for peace and freedom,....but WITHOUT restricting yourself, punishing your body, (and definitely WITHOUT ever having to use words like macros, low-carb, or calorie burn) check out Leanne's FREE Stressless Eating Webinar @ www.StresslessEating.com
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Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone + Why You Should Never Kiss Your Dog + Gratitude + Mantras & Intentions for 2024 (the Year of Empowerment)
FIRST THING: Amy read something special her sister wrote called That Time We Tore Down the Fence. Loving your neighbors well, getting outside of your comfort zone, and answering dreams, but never forgetting what you have experienced and learned and loved on the way.
SECOND THING: Taft Hansen (a medical laboratory scientist/parasitologist) is a guest for this continued conversation about parasites. He sent Amy an email after hearing her episode with Katie Decker and he wanted to contribute. They talk about why you should never kiss your dog, cooking meat properly, parasites in the brain and more.
3RD THING: Taft's wife Morgan joins in for '4 Things Gratitude' and some good movie, tv and book recommendations come up during it!
4TH THING: Amy's cousin, Amanda Rieger Green is on talking about how 2024 is the year of empowerment. She released a Numerology Guide Book that’s special for this year (an 8 year, BTW) and people are loving it, so Amanda gave us the details & also shared with us some mantras and intentions that are good for us to use this year specifically!
HOST:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
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What to Do When You Feel Misunderstood (5th Thing)
Amy & Cryo Kat (Therapy Kat is on her honeymoon!!) are back together again talking about a recent sacrifice that was made in the name of their friendship + things you can say when you're feeling misunderstood + their obsession with things like AlphaTenn Bars & ground beef & the 'cocaine queen.'
Today's quote: "Dang girl, are you a fitted sheet because you are complicated and hard to manage!"
AlphaTenn Bars (use KAT10 for 10% off)
Email Amy: 4ThingsWithAmyBrown@gmail.com
HOST:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
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PART 1: Do You WANT to Stop Dieting, But You Have No Idea What That Even Looks Like (and the alternative terrifies you!)? Let's Talk About It! (Outweigh)
OUTWEIGH: So many women WANT to stop dieting, but they don't know how, or they don't know what that even looks like, because it's all they've ever known.
So this idea of "food freedom" or NOT being on some sort of diet is not only foreign to them, but it's actually pretty scary, because all their brain has known is what it's like to count, measure, restrict, and control.
Or their brain knows what it's like to bounce to the opposite end of the spectrum, and end up in an uncontrollable cycle of mindless eating, emotional eating, stress eating, or binging, and they just end up feeling super out-of-control.
But again, NOT being ON something scares them, because when they are not ON, they are totally OFF, and as you can imagine, it's one massive vicious cycle and downward spiral.
And because this topic truly is multi-faceted, Leanne broke it up into 2 parts. Part 1 is about the mindset and heartset and brainset shifts that need to happen to make the strategy-side-of-things Leanne will share in Part 2 even possible.
So enjoy this episode, and make sure to come back next week where Leanne is going to break it down into 5 crystal clear steps of what that actually looks like to heal from the diet mentality for good.
HOST: @leanneellington
To learn more about how to turn off the part of your brain that’s obsessed with food or obsessed with your weight and rewire your own brain for peace and freedom,....but WITHOUT restricting yourself, punishing your body, (and definitely WITHOUT ever having to use words like macros, low-carb, or calorie burn) check out Leanne's FREE Stressless Eating Webinar @ www.StresslessEating.com
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Elevate Your Confidence, Style & Power with This Life-Changing Tip
Amy just discovered color matching & it's blown her mind. Her guest, Hannah Garber (a color analyst) breaks it all down for us. Amy met Hannah after she booked an appointment to find out her "season" (she learned she's a 'cool summer' palette, btw) and when Hannah told Amy her underlying skin tone was one that radiates in NAVY BLUE & NOT BLACK Amy was fascinated! She knew she wanted Hannah on the podcast ASAP. Why are we just now learning about this? In a nutshell, we all have certain colors that give us the power to show up with more confidence and look our best. Everything from the way we color our hair, to our makeup choices, the clothing we wear, nail color, jewelry etc..
Amy & Hannah talk about the colors/seasons (winter, summer, spring & autumn), confidence, capsule wardrobes (imagine if getting dressed was easy!!), the science behind it all, how Hollywood uses color matching for character building (shout out Anne Hathoway in Devil Wears Prada) & so much more (like memories of our moms with their signature lip colors & how switching your mascara color from black to brown is a game-changer or vice versa...it all depends on the "season" that you are!)
DM Hannah on IG. She'd love to hear from you: @houseofcolournashville_hannah
Email Amy: 4ThingsWithAmyBrown@Gmail.com
HOST:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
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How Gwyneth Paltrow Releases Anger & Do You Rank Your Friends? (5th Thing)
Today’s quote is from Ally Fallon: “You rarely know the whole story already – when things don’t make sense it’s usually because there’s missing data, untapped information. Maybe someone is keeping something from you, maybe you’re keeping something from yourself. Maybe certain things are none of your business - and maybe you need to wait a little longer to collect more puzzle pieces.”
What are the facts in the story you’ve built in your head? Practice patience – the other pieces of the puzzle are coming.
Amy & Kat “popcorn” through different topics:
- How Kat’s feeling leading up to her wedding!
- What’s the right way to order your bridesmaids/groomsmen?
- Survey: 1/3 of Americans feel lonely at least once per week
- Filling your cup with connection & community
- Horrible hygiene habits that are way too common
- Gwyneth Paltrow uses a baseball bat to release anger
- Emotional intelligence quiz
- Gaslighting and the Keanu Reeves mindset (2+2=5)
Will Amy make 2024 the year of no shoes in her house? Only time will tell :)
Wishing Kat a happy wedding week!!! Check out her episode about The Loneliness Epidemic on You Need Therapy.
HOSTS:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
Kat Defatta // @Kat.Defatta // @YouNeedTherapyPodcast // YouNeedTherapyPodcast.com
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