“How Sleepless Nights Nearly Destroyed My Life—Until a Simple Device Changed Everything”

Written by June Wilcox - Published on Feb 28, 2023

June, 54, never thought sleep would become her enemy.

She wasn’t dealing with major illness.

She didn’t have young children keeping her up.

She wasn’t in a high-powered, stressful job.

By all accounts, she had “slowed down” like everyone tells you to after 50.

But her mind didn’t get the memo.

“I’d go to bed completely exhausted—and then lie awake, wide-eyed, like my brain was suddenly throwing a party.”

She wasn’t alone.Millions of women in midlife suffer from fragmented sleep, anxiety spirals, and early morning waking.

But for June, the worst part wasn’t just feeling tired.

It was what came after.

At first, it was just “a bad night here and there.”

Then “a bit of tossing and turning.”

Then she couldn’t remember the last time she’d woken up feeling rested.

“I’d lie there at 2am, listening to my husband’s breathing and wondering why I felt like crying.

 I’d reach for my phone and scroll until my eyes burned. 

Podcasts helped a little—but I was constantly adjusting headphones or worrying he could hear it."

What started as a sleep issue soon bled into her days.

- She was snapping at her husband over nothing.
- She cancelled plans, made excuses, avoided friends.
- She stopped cooking proper meals.
- She withdrew from her adult kids.
- She started skipping her walking group, claiming it was the weather.

“It was like I was watching my own life drift further and further away. I was physically present—but emotionally, I was done.”

And the worst part?

She kept blaming herself.

“I told myself I was just lazy. Or hormonal. Or getting old. Or too sensitive. But the truth is, I wasn’t sleeping. And it was ruining me.”

June didn’t sit back and suffer. She tried everything:

Sleepy teas

White noise machines

Magnesium supplements

Guided meditation apps

Foam earplugs

Three different kinds of “sleep headphones”

Each promised rest. Each delivered… frustration.

“The headphones were the worst. Either they squeezed my head, slipped off, made my ears hot—or my husband could still hear them. 

One pair lit up in the middle of the night. I ripped them off and cried.”

She was tired of products that claimed to be for sleep but clearly weren’t designed by anyone who had actually been lying awake at 3am, desperately trying not to disturb someone else.

“My husband falls asleep the second his head hits the pillow.

I didn’t want to wake him. But I couldn’t handle the silence. 

It was like being locked in a room with my own thoughts.”

One night, after four hours of tossing, she went downstairs and just sat on the sofa.

She stared at the dark TV screen until sunrise.

“That was my lowest point. I wasn’t even sad—I was just empty. I remember thinking,

‘This is my life now. Tired, lonely, and wired at 4am, every day until I die.’”

That same morning, while searching for “how to fall asleep faster” online, she stumbled across something different.

June isn't a tech person - far from it in fact. So something like this is perfect for her.

It's just an ultra-thin little speaker, that slides underneath your pillow so you can listen to the things that make you feel calm.

Whether thats music, podcasts, audiobooks or the sound of the ocean.

It uses a special pillow conduction technology, which means it isn't like a normal speaker.

It sends sound up through your ear and into your pillow with as little sound as possible leaking out into the room, so your partner won't be disturbed.You just connect it to your phone and hit play - whether it's youtube, spotify, audible, anything you like.

No more fiddling with wires.

No more sore ears.

No more nights spent staring at the ceiling.