The holidays are closing in and are a busy time of year when we spend our time Christmas shopping, making winter travel plans, enjoying the company of our families and deciding just what to make our New Year's resolutions. And for many of us, our New Year's resolutions often revolve around making our lives healthier and happier. Whether it's making healthier food choices, exercising more often, or quitting bad habits like smoking, many of us choose to start the next year off aiming at self improvement.

The Alaska Sleep Clinic wants to remind you that you don't need to wait until the first of the year to start making your health a priority. In fact, right now is the perfect time to start.

Sleeping well may seem easy in the winter months during gloomy weather and grey skies; but winter can be the hardest time to catch enough zzzz’s. Post-holiday, winter blues can set in, disrupting sleep and creating a long-lasting cabin fever.

The Thanksgiving leftovers are gone, Santa is back at the North Pole, but the weather is still frightful. Though the Christmas lights may stay up a few more weeks until a break between snowfalls and frigid temperatures, the mood changes after the holidays.

Holiday season is upon us, and the end of the year is possibly the busiest time for all of us.

We kick off the start of this season with Halloween, a night dedicated to costumes and candy followed by a week of finishing off the candy that ghouls didn’t ring your doorbell to claim. Shortly after that comes Thanksgiving, a day to harvest our work’s bounty with paid time off to sit around and do nothing else but eat and eat and eat.

The American Sleep Apnea Association strives to improve the lives of anyone suffering from sleep health issues. We oftentimes consider a sleep issue as simply a part of life but it certainly should not be that way, especially when ignoring these problems can have severe life-threatening consequences.