Ever told yourself: “It’s fine. I’ll just catch up on sleep this weekend”?
That lie got me through more overstimulated weeks than I want to admit.
I worked late. I stared at screens until midnight. I told myself I will catch up on the weeking with my sleep. Some weekends, I slept 9 or 10 hours just to feel human again. But by Monday, I still felt groggy and behind.
Here’s the truth: sleep doesn’t work like a bank account. You can’t withdraw all week and expect one big deposit to fix it.
Your body runs on rhythm, not credit.
When your sleep is all over the place, you’re not recovering, you’re confusing your internal clock. And that messes with everything:
- Cortisol spikes too early or too late
- Melatonin gets released at the wrong time
- You start your week with a jet lag–like fog, even if you barely left your bed
To be clear, one night of longer sleep can help a little. But if you’re chronically depleted, weekend sleep-ins are like patching a sinking boat with duct tape.
Once I stopped treating sleep like a reward and started treating it like a rhythm, everything changed. I stopped relying on weekends to fix what I was breaking every night.
That meant:
- Waking up at the same time every day (even weekends!)
- Shutting down screens an hour before bed
- Creating real recovery moments throughout my week
Because the only way to truly recover is rhythmically not reactively.
So next time you catch yourself pushing through the week thinking Saturday will save you, ask: What would change if rest became the rule, not the exception?
Because sleep isn’t a luxury. It’s a rhythm your body loves to follow, every single day.
Book a free call with me to learn how to build recovery into your week and not just your weekends.
– Michi