Night Shift w/ Justin S. King - Evening Routine Mastery

Dr. Michael Breus suggests that some recurring nightmares may be unfinished stories. Tonight’s Night Shift explores how safely revisiting the dream while awake—and imagining what happens next—may help your mind bring the story to completion. 

Michael Neill teaches that our best ideas often arrive when we stop forcing answers and become present enough to receive them. Discover how an intentional evening routine can quiet the noise, reconnect you with your innate knowing, and reveal your next step—no more, no less.

 Turning down the air conditioner may not solve summer sleep if your bedding is trapping heat. Learn how to audit your sheets, covers, mattress protector, pillow, pajamas, and airflow to create a cooler microclimate inside your bed. 

Your daily numbers are information—not a verdict on your worth. Tonight, separate the facts from the story you’ve attached to them, keep the lesson, release the judgment, and close the game. 

Lasting change doesn't happen overnight—it happens one evening at a time. In this final episode of the Atomic Habits series, discover James Clear's ideas of the Plateau of Latent Potential, the power of systems over goals, and why every evening routine is a vote for the person you're becoming. Focus on the process, trust the compound effect, and let small, consistent nights transform your mornings. 

Your bedroom and evening environment may be shaping your sleep more than your motivation ever will. In this episode, we apply James Clear's Atomic Habits to your nighttime routine by reducing friction, creating a shutdown ritual, tracking the habits you control, and rewarding consistency instead of chasing perfect sleep. Design your environment well, and better sleep becomes the natural result. 

Adding a new habit to your evening routine takes more than good intentions. In this episode, you’ll learn seven practical principles to make the habit attractive, focused, exciting, and easier to repeat—while staying clear on your why, making a real commitment, and setting a deadline. 

The harder you try to perfect your sleep, the more pressure you create around it. This episode explores why sleep naturally changes, how daily tracker scores can fuel anxiety, and why your energy, mood, and focus may be better measures than a graph. Take the long view, stop grading every night, and let sleep support your life. 

Hal Elrod’s SLUMBERS framework is designed to help you deliberately close out the day and prepare for better sleep. Learn the eight steps—from stopping late-night eating and mapping out tomorrow to reducing screen time, releasing stress, and reading something calming. 

Trauma can teach your body that sleep is unsafe—even when the danger has passed. This episode explains why nighttime hypervigilance can overpower ordinary sleep hacks and offers a simple Safety Signal Reset to help your nervous system recognize that it no longer needs to stand guard. 

Scribing is the final step in the Miracle Morning S.A.V.E.R.S. routine. It means using a journal to capture gratitude, lessons, progress, priorities, and ideas—so your morning practice produces clarity and leads to deliberate action. This episode explores how to use writing / scribing as part of your evening routine.

Reading serves two different purposes in Hal Elrod’s routines. In the Miracle Morning, you read to learn the strategies needed to reach your goals. At night, during the SLUMBERS routine, you choose an easy, low-stress book you have already read—not to learn something new, but to help your mind slow down. Morning reading prepares you to grow. Evening reading prepares you to let go. 

Sleep is not just a mental process — it is physical permission to stop holding on. In this episode of Night Shift, we explore how to deactivate the body before bed using restorative yoga, Yoga Nidra, progressive muscle relaxation, and gentle evening movement. The goal is not to exercise harder, but to help the nervous system release tension, lower arousal, and signal that the day is over. 

A simple nasal breathing cue that can make your breath feel easier: stop forcing the air up into your face or down into your chest, and instead imagine it moving straight back through the nose. In this episode, Justin explains why this small shift can reduce tension, improve airflow, and make techniques like box breathing, the relaxing sigh, and 4-6-7 breathing more effective. 

A one-minute episode on preframing your morning before the world gets a vote. Use breath, gratitude, prayer, and “Three to Thrive” to train the emotion you want to live from — then set it up the night before so your day starts with direction instead of reaction.