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The Impact of Parental Depression on Children
by Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, President of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Depression affects millions of adults over their lifetime, many of whom are parents...
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The Importance Of Sleep For Brain Function: In Partnership With Neurohacker Collective
By Dr. Gregory Kelly, N.D. Why Is Biohacking the Night Time Important? In the fall of 2018, Neurohacker Collective started to turn some of our...
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Motherhood and Self-Care during COVID
By Dr. Anese Barnett Motherhood is beautiful, but let’s be honest, it also gets demanding. Between the schedules and routines, keeping up with laundry, preparing...
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Discover Your Sleep Ritual with Prospect Farms x Gravity Blankets
by Brad Tipper, CEO of Prospect Farms With all the pressures of our daily lives, it comes as no surprise that more than a third...
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Helping Children Cope with Back-to-School Stress Amidst COVID-19
by Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, President of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Starting school or starting a new school year can be stressful at the...
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You're Grounded with TUSHY x Gravity Blanket
Just like a teen who came home 10 minutes past curfew, it feels like we’ve all collectively been grounded by the universe this entire year,...
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How to Get a Good Night Sleep When Stressed
by Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, President of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Another sleepless night spent worrying as you stare at the ceiling? Stress and...
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Treat Yourself to Better Health with International Self-Care Day
Let’s be real, life can get pretty stressful. Between work, home life, families, friends, social gatherings and even daily errands, it can be challenging to...
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Beyond Physical Fitness: The Importance of Sleep & Mental Health for Professional Athletes
No matter where you are in the world, sports are an integral facet of our everyday lives. We watch our favorite professional athletes win games,...
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Helping Your Child Manage Their Anxiety
Kids and teens these days may be living their best life: attending school at home, staying in their comfy clothes, eating snacks all day, and...
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Top Myths about Mental Illness with Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
One in five people has a diagnosable mental health disorder, but often fear and shame prevent people from seeking help. Often people are afraid to...
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Getting to know Ron Chereskin: Designer behind the new Modernist X Gravity Summer 2020 Collection
Since the launch of Gravity in 2017, it has become a tradition for our business to introduce a new line of product during the summer...
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Snowballing Anxiety And 6 Simple Ways To Stop It
by Gabriel Gonyea, Gravity Blankets Community Member Picture a snowball rolling down a large hill. As it tumbles, it gains momentum and before you know...
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How Temperature Affects Your Sleep Quality by Eight Sleep
Sleep is one of the key essentials of good health. Maintaining a consistent sleep schedule is equally important as following a balanced diet, drinking plenty...
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How to support the men in your life that are dealing with anxiety:
Anxiety is a word that has become all too common for all of us; a feeling of excessive worry, restlessness and even sometimes fear. These...
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May is Mental Health Month – How are you doing?
By Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, President of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed nationally in the month of May...
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Introducing the Gravity Cares Program
Since our April 2017 launch, Gravity has been a science-backed sleep and wellness brand that believes mental health and wellness should be just as important...
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"My Gravity Experience" by a Gravity Community Member!
I’ve had my 15lb Gravity Blanket for over a year now and have had nothing but a positive experience so far. Prior to ordering my...
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Caring for our Healthcare Workers, First Responders and Each Other
A Letter from Gravity's CEO, Mike Grillo There's not much to say about the COVID-19 pandemic that hasn't already been said. There's the health impact....
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What you can do for yourself during quarantine:
This is probably one of the biggest events in our lifetimes, with most of us having been mandated to self-quarantine in our homes. It’s a...
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World Sleep Day 2020: Better Sleep, Better Life, Better Planet
The 13th Annual World Sleep Day is almost upon us, and it’s a time to remind ourselves of the important role sleep plays in our...
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Spring Forward into Sweet Dreams
These tips and tricks will eliminate difficulty sleeping due to Daylight Savings. It's that time of the year again, the night when we spin the...
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Top 10 Sleep Tips and Facts from this past year!
Did you know this upcoming week is Sleep week? Starting with Daylight Savings, going into National Napping Day and ending on our favorite, World Sleep...
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Self-Love and What It Means.
by Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., What is self-love? Before a person is able to practice it, first we need to understand what it means. Self-love is...
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The Winter Blues or Seasonal Affective Disorder?
by Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D. The winter blues are very common, with many of us experiencing a mood shift during the colder, darker days of winter....
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Veterans Deserve a Lot of Things—Better Sleep Is Just One of Them
On Veteran’s Day we express gratitude for men and women who’ve dedicated their lives to defending the livelihood of others’. They do this year-round, by...
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How to Support Someone with Mental Illness
How to Support Someone with Mental Illness by Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D. 1 in 5 of us lives with a mental illness. This means every one...
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Every Day Mental Health Tips
by Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., President & CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. When we talk about mental health we are talking about “a...
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Back-to-School Stress Management
by Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D. The last weeks of summer vacation are beginning to wind down, and as advertisers “back-to-school” campaigns are in full-effect, a sense...
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The Importance of Taking Vacation Time to De-Stress and Recharge
*For additional reading on how anxiety impacts your sleep, visit Sleep Advisor.
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Introducing Gravity's New Product: The Aromatherapy Pillow
Aside from our commitment to the highest quality products, what has always made Gravity different is our constant pursuit of sleep innovation. We've never aspired...
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An Insomniac's Guide to Sleep: How Self-talk and a Few Small Changes Can Help you Break the Cycle
By Mike Grillo, CEO and Cofounder of Gravity Blankets. If there’s one thing the health community has taught us over the last few years, it’s...
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Bring the Gravity Wellness Program to Your Business
Employee happiness, health and wellness is no longer a "nice to have," it drives real business results. A 2017 study conducted by the University of...
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Happy Father's Day!
At the crack of dawn, all is silent except the drip and steam of the coffee machine until a sound erupts that’s so loud and...
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$10,000 Raised and New Lessons Learned: Mental Health Awareness Month 2019
For the team at Gravity – and for me personally – mental health and wellness is always top of mind. It’s core to what we...