My relationship with sleep has always been a good one. Almost too good, if I?m being honest. For me, drifting off has never been a problem. Staying awake on the other hand" That?s a whole other story. 
That is, until this year. At some point between February and March, my sleep patterns started to unravel. Slowly and then all at once. Where I once grew frustrated that I couldn?t keep my eyes open until the end of a movie to save myself, now I was growing more and more anxious that I couldn?t fall asleep. Midnight would go past, then 1am and sometimes 2, and with each passing hour, I?d count the amount of shuteye I would get if I fell asleep right then and there. However, my body just wouldn?t. do. it. 
I had a lot of time to ponder the cause of my newfound insomnia. Was it my new house and the occasionally noisy construction site down the road" Probably. Was it the stress and uncertainty of starting a new job" Didn?t help. Was it the pressure I put on myself" Almost certainly. Having never grappled with anything like this before, I had nothing to compare it to. What I did know, however, was that I didn?t like it. 
Enter CBD oil. 
Cannabidiol ? or CBD for short ? is a buzzy new supplement taking the U.S. (and slowly, the rest of the world) by storm. A naturally occurring compound derived from the cannabis plant, this oil is oft touted as a miracle cure. 
As Naturopath and Nutritionist Michaela Sparrow explains, there is a plethora of research behind ...