Sleep, food, movement, and sunlight solve fewer dramatic problems than people want and more ordinary ones than they realize.

The basics are consistently oversold as cures and undersold as foundations. Sleep, food, movement, and daylight will not resolve grief, fix a bad situation, or answer a hard question. What they do is quietly determine how much of yourself you have available for all of that, and how many small daily troubles never arise at all.

If things feel harder than they should, check the four before looking for anything more complicated. It is not a solution to everything and it is often the difference between coping and not.