The Sleep & body pathSome important steps on your guided path:
- Sleep
- Movement and nutrition
- Your nervous system
- How grief shows up in the body
- Going through the motions
- Rest
- Reconnecting with your body
- When to see a mental health provider
Body & sleep
Care for your whole self.
Grief is physical. Sleep goes first, appetite changes, and the body carries stress you can’t think your way out of. Protecting sleep and moving a little each day are the foundation that makes coping with everything else possible.
Start with Body & sleepOur approach.
Simple behavioral basics that work, like the core habits from CBT-I for sleep. Add gentle movement and breathwork that calm the body, plus honest guidance on when to talk to a doctor.
This is not medical advice.
What happens inside
Practices for in the moment, like moving the feeling through your body and breathing exercises such as the physiological sigh and 4-7-8 breathing.
Ideas that make sense of it, like why heartbreak hurts physically, and how to tell grief from depression.
Built on the work of people who’ve spent their lives on this.
More than 15 books, talks, podcasts and articles, from sleep scientists, trauma and stress researchers, physicians, mindfulness pioneers and breathing researchers.
Not just a library.
Switchbacks pays attention to what you tell it about sleep, energy and how your body is holding up. Instead of a list of everything you should be doing, it suggests the one small, practical thing that fits where you are right now.
How the companion helps here.
Sessions notices when sleep, appetite or energy keep coming up. It offers the basics that help, and says plainly when it’s time to see a doctor.
Start with Body & sleep