Dr. Lillian A. Horton

Dr. Lillian A. Horton is a behavioral sleep specialist whose clinical work focuses on adults whose sleep problems are driven by lifestyle and psychological factors rather than medical conditions. Her own struggle with revenge bedtime procrastination — when her days were consumed by work and her evenings were the only time she felt like a person — is what turned her clinical interest toward this specific phenomenon.

She writes the way a good doctor talks: not down to you, but straight with you. She is not interested in optimizing sleep so you can be more productive at work. She is interested in helping you sleep because sleep deprivation makes everything worse — relationships, mood, health, the ability to actually enjoy the leisure time you are fighting for. She refuses to moralize about screens or lecture about discipline.