Shelby Harris, PsyD, DBSM is a clinical psychologist and board-certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist in private practice in New York. She is Clinical Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and previously served as longtime Director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the Sleep-Wake Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Harris is the author of The Women’s Guide to Overcoming Insomnia and The Essential Guide to Children’s Sleep, and her research and clinical writing span insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, circadian rhythm disorders, and sleep in older adults. A frequent media expert, she has been an invited columnist for The New York Times and has appeared across major outlets including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, CBS Mornings, Today, Good Morning America, and The Drew Barrymore Show. She also shares evidence-based sleep education with a wide audience on Instagram at @SleepDocShelby.

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At TEDxBeverlyGrove

Dr. Shelby Harris will share “How We Broke Sleep Without Realizing It”—Her talk challenges the modern reflex to optimize rest through effort, tracking, and control—and offers a science-backed alternative: rebuilding sleep through trust, retraining the brain’s associations with bedtime, and restoring the bed as a cue for safety rather than struggle.

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