Quiet nights, clearer mornings
Rest is not earned.
It is returned to.
Cricket & Moon is a slow, science-checked way back to sleep — written for people who have tried everything and are tired of being told to try harder.
Where to startFour quiet questions match your sleeplessness to the aid with the best evidence. No email needed to see your result.
This is not a routine
It is a return to something
your body already knows
You have read the lists. Cooler room, darker curtains, no screens after nine. Some of it helped a little. None of it explained why you still lie awake at two in the morning doing arithmetic on the hours you have left.
Sleep is not a habit to be installed. It is a physiological tide that arrives when the conditions allow it. Our work is to understand those conditions — carefully, one at a time — and then to get out of the way.
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Four ways in
Where would you like to begin?
Twenty-six pieces are live. New ones arrive about once a week.
Sleep Guides
The long ground: circadian rhythm, sleep pressure, and the few things that genuinely move the needle.
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Natural Aids
Magnesium, chamomile, valerian, glycine. What the evidence supports, and what it quietly does not.
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Shift Workers & Odd Hours
Rest while the world is awake — rotating shifts, red-eye flights, and the first year of a child.
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Stillness Practice
Breath, body scans, and the old quiet arts of setting a day down before you lie in it.
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Recent pieces
The Best Bedroom Temperature for Daytime Sleeping (And Why It's Different)
Daytime sleepers are fighting a rising body clock, not a falling one.
Sleep Anchoring for Shift Workers
A fixed sleep window at the same clock time, even as the rest of the schedule rotates.
What to Eat Before Sleeping After a Night Shift
The last meal before day sleep is not a normal dinner in disguise.
The Worry Window: Scheduling Anxiety So It Stops Showing Up at Bedtime
A worry that stayed quiet all day will often surface the moment the lights go out.
Why Clock-Watching Makes Insomnia Worse (and What to Do Instead)
Two in the morning, and the hand reaches for the phone to check how much time is left.
How to Stop Overthinking at Night: A Practical Guide
Overthinking at night isn't one problem, it's three distinct patterns, each with its own fix.
The seven best natural sleep aids backed by research
Seven aids with real evidence, each working through a different mechanism.
How to choose the right natural sleep aid for you
Identify the cause first. Everything else follows from that one answer.
Sleep is the one thing you cannot force. You can only make the room it needs.
Everything here is built on that single idea.
The Sunday letter
One letter, sent
as the light goes
A single idea about rest, one thing worth trying this week, and one thing worth ignoring. Written by hand. Sent Sunday evening.
No noise, leave whenever you like.