Sleep Wellness is Essential for a Life Well Lived
Sleep To Live Well Foundation
is dedicated to empowering everyone, especially at-risk children and their caregivers, to choose a more natural balance between sleep and the demands of modern life.
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that Lack of Sufficient Sleep (LOSS) is a root cause of illness and suffering.
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to inspire and promote a healthier relationship with Sleep Wellness.
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of organizations, professionals, and individuals committed to supporting Sleep Wellness.
According to the CDC, insufficient sleep is a public health epidemic.
Despite the alarming health risks emphasized over the past two decades and the recent rise in sleep hygiene awareness and products, millions of Americans still suffer from insufficient sleep.
In our 2025 State of Sleep Wellness Report, The Silent Epidemic: How Insufficient Sleep Endangers Millions of Lives in America, we are raising awareness of its direct link to a rise in chronic health conditions affecting approximately 300 million children and adults. This results in a greater burden on the healthcare system, with an estimated annual economic loss of $411 billion due to decreased productivity and increased healthcare expenses.
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—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022
A leading cause of insufficient sleep is stress and trauma arising from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
The impact of ACEs on health, especially that of children, is staggering. The ACEs Aware Initiative to screen and treat children exposed to ACEs is gaining momentum in the medical community.
Addressing ACEs in children before they reach adulthood through wellness tools to resolve toxic stress and trauma requires intervention. The Sleep To Live Well Foundation supports the ACEs community’s deployment of the 7 Domains of Wellness by adding the 8th Domain of Sleep Wellness to enhance the effectiveness of all others.
—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022
Sleep Wellness is Essential in Fighting the Public Health Crises of ACEs and LOSS
Sufficient sleep is key to growth and repair and is the ultimate preventative medicine.
Lack of Sufficient Sleep (LOSS) weakens the immune system, opening the door to illness.
With understanding and practices that change behaviors, Sleep Wellness is a natural choice.
Prioritizing Sleep Wellness will break the generational cycle of physical and mental illness.
Research shows that adults who have experienced ACEs often suffer from disrupted sleep patterns, contributing to their physical and mental health challenges. Disrupted sleep patterns in children affected by ACEs are known to have impaired cognitive development, emotional regulation, learning, and social interactions.
By understanding Sleep Wellness and how to attain it, we can take effective steps with approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) toward breaking the generational cycle of illness and alleviating the crisis of insufficient sleep in families and communities.
We must start by helping children build resiliency into adulthood.
Children are our highest priority for Sleep Wellness because they are the most vulnerable to the effects of insufficient sleep. When high levels of stress and trauma are added, they can experience severe long-term consequences for their health, well-being, and future success.
Sleep To Live Well is dedicated to helping children break generational cycles of physical and mental illness by unlocking their SuperPower of Sleep Wellness, which they need to build resilience that will last a lifetime.
Sleep To Live Well Foundation is making Sleep Wellness essential for children, their families and their healthcare providers.
Empowering Children
A children’s book to help kids embrace sleep naturally.
Advising Families
A parent’s guidebook to make bedtime sacred for the entire family.
Supporting Doctors
A screening tool kit to identify and naturally treat poor quality sleep.
Sleep To Live Well is Reaching Out to Children to Inspire Sleep Wellness as Their SuperPower
Roger Washington, MD, founder and medical director of Sleep To Live Well, is taking action to promote Sleep Wellness among children with Doctor Bedtime's SLEEP MAGIC: SuperPowers for Super-Sleepers.
Doctor Bedtime’s Sleep Magic will be available to hundreds of children and their families through Sleep To Live Well’s charitable programs.
This magically empowering 32-page bedtime story has been kid-approved as “amazing” and motivating to “get to sleep” and “read again” to power up with sleep magic.
Doctor Bedtime’s Sleep Magic, co-authored by Dr. Washington and STLW Executive Director Scarlet Nickhol, is available to organizations and schools to improve the health outcomes of children and their families at risk of insufficient sleep. It is also available for individual purchase, with all proceeds going to Sleep To Live Well’s charitable programs.
Hardcover and Paperback Coming Soon
The Doctor Will See You Now:
“How is your nutrition,
exercise, and weight?”
But what about your sleeping?
60% of adults have never been asked by a physician about their sleep quality!
- Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee
Are you concerned about your Sleep Wellness? Schedule a free consultation to start improving your sleep quality.
For over 30 years, Dr. Roger Washington has emphasized the importance of sleep to his patients and used it as a crucial factor in diagnosing and treating their illnesses. Many of his patients can attest to his incessant prescribing of Sleep Wellness advice and practices for shifting behaviors and routines to improve their health.
These blogs share some of Dr. Washington's Sleep Wellness wisdom, which he typically imparts to his patients. Enjoy a virtual office visit with Dr. Bedtime’s blogs and start cultivating a healthier appreciation for and a more natural relationship with your sleep:
“Sleep Wellness must be a topic that concerns everyone. It should be emphasized in all households, and by all physicians and healthcare practitioners in their treatment and care of patients.”
- Dr. Roger Washington