No sleep no rest

1. Limit your caffein intake to 1-2 cups a day. Iced tea, water, non-caffeinated options.

2. Lack of sleep does accumulate. You might want to look into a Trazadone scrip from your doctor. Inexpensive, long-tested, non-addictive and effective without any sleep hangover. It's also a mild anti-depressant at the right levels. If not for Trazadone, I would not sleep. And it's clear indication things like Ambien and Lunestra are wildly overkill.

3. Meditation can look like all sorts of things. Some people do the whole mantra, inner retreat thing. But it's also mindful activity like working repetitively with your hands, sitting in nature, moving in nature, using certain kinds of music, even working out. Whatever gives you satisfaction, is repetitive enough to keep your mind free or silent is good meditation for you. I can't to the calm, breathing thing. My mediation's much more active but just as effective.

4. Set reachable, definable and timely goals. "I gotta get my sh*t together" is a tough mandate. Try something like cutting down to 3 caffeinated drinks a day by a specific date you set. Then move down to two. Then try one. Before you know it, having one drink a day isn't even worth the time to pour it. And move, but take your time. No one's in a race to Zen.

Same with meditation. Just promise yourself at least 20 minutes a day to do absolutely anything you want as long as it's relaxing. It doesn't have to be structured - this is where you find what works most and least for you. But giving yourself 20 minutes even without a concrete path begins the first step to maintaining your mental and emotional balance.

Good luck. Stop yourself any time you can in your day and take a single, patient deep breathe. You'd be amazed at what that alone can do.

Decaf!