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Sleepless Planet: A Graphic Guide to Healing from Insomnia [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x16 mm, kaal: 544 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2025
  • Kirjastus: Graphic Mundi
  • ISBN-10: 1637790937
  • ISBN-13: 9781637790939
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x16 mm, kaal: 544 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2025
  • Kirjastus: Graphic Mundi
  • ISBN-10: 1637790937
  • ISBN-13: 9781637790939
Insomnia is a sleep disorder that affects roughly one in four people in the industrialized world. Typical treatments are often ineffective and have undesirable side effects. For those of us yearning for a restful nights sleep in a world that never stops turning, its hard to know how to find relief.

Part graphic nonfiction and part comics diary, this guide offers an insightful look at the science of sleep and the cultural forces contributing to the modern insomnia epidemic. In it, Maureen Burdock shares a deeply personal journey of navigating sleep disturbance from childhood through perimenopause. As she grapples with the physical, mental, and emotional toll of sleepless nights, Burdock explores a range of popular treatmentsconsulting sleep specialists and testing THC sleep aids, mouth taping, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Along the way, Burdock reveals how rewilding her lifethrough diet, meditation, education, and mindfulnesshelped her find balance and ultimately reclaim her sleep.

With humor and vulnerability, Sleepless Planet invites readers to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and seek their own path to healing. Whether youre a chronic insomniac or simply seeking better sleep, this book is a visually rich and empowering companion on the journey toward rest.

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Restless readers would benefit from putting this on their nightstand.

Publishers Weekly Sleep is a constant subject in our lives, but even if you feel youve exhausted (pun intended) all the sleep content avenues, Burdocks book likely contains new information. Her own deep research is evident, and we learned many surprising and useful tidbits, such as how using a didgeridoo can play a role in good sleep. Like much impactful graphic medicine, its a comic that inspires self-examination of your own health and well-being.

Autobiographix By blending sleep science with cultural and historical analysis, while also offering practical tips for those struggling with sleep, Sleepless Planet emerges as a resourceful, graphic, medical narrative that thoughtfully addresses a range of questions surrounding our complex relationship with sleep.

Sathyaraj Venkatesan The Polyphony Readers with inquiring minds will be thoroughly occupied from start to finish.

Frank Plowright The Slings & Arrows Sleepless Planet is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel and a well-organized, well-written story of the author's own elusive quest for restful sleep. Simultaneously a scientific primer, a personal memoir, and a practical guide, it offers anyone who has struggled with sleepless nights hope as well as practical strategies for success. Each carefully constructed section addresses the essential groundwork that should be done before delving into the more complex neurochemical mechanisms that underlie insomnia.

Stasha Gominak, MD, creator of RightSleep® Read this book now! should be shouted from rooftops. In this gorgeously illustrated, deeply researched book, we come face-to-face with holistic solutions to our complex challenges with sleep. This book holds the potential to improve not just our sleep but every aspect of our health.

MK Czerwiec, RN Sleep is top priority for our mental health, but who doesnt have sleeping troubles? With beautiful art, personal stories, scientific information, and the occasional koala bear, Maureen Burdock leads us from sleepless nights to sweet dreams.

Ellen Forney, author of Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life Smart, honest, and soothing for anyone tired of being tireda wittily drawn guide for everyone worn down by our 24/7 society.

Johan Eklöf, author of The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life

Muu info

Long-listed for VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award 2026. Nominated for ALA GNCRT Outstanding Comics Award 2025 and PROSE Award 2025 and Reuben Awards 2026 and Graphic Medicine International Collective Awards 2026 and Eisner Awards - Best reality-based work 2026 and Eisner Awards - Best graphic memoir 2026 and NYPL Best Comics and Graphic Novels 2025.An integrative guide to better sleep in a hyperactive world.
Maureen Burdock is an illustrator, comics creator, cultural studies scholar, and teacher. She is also an integrative nutrition health coach and the owner of Burdock Wellness, www.burdockwellness.com. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir, also published by Graphic Mundi. Burdock is currently based in the Netherlands, where she lives with her wife and boxer dog. After almost five decades of coping with insomnia, she now sleeps much better.