Jim Ebbelaar explains revenge bedtime procrastination: staying up late to steal back personal time after a day of masking or people-pleasing. Breaking the cycle is hard, but reclaiming your nighttime routine leads to better mornings and less feeling behind.
Now there's this thing called revenge bedtime procrastination, and what happens is because you perform all day— masking, people pleasing, overachieving, whatever it is— you push yourself. And then when everyone goes to bed and you have that moment for yourself, or maybe you're a parent, or maybe you have like specific family dynamics to deal with, so that evening that feels really like your time. And I want you to understand that that pattern of like basically Revenge bedtime procrastination. The thing is, it's really hard to get out of, but as soon as you win back those nights, your mornings will improve and you will not feel like you always are basically 1-0 behind where you wake up and already feeling bad.
