Sage Stillwell

Sage Stillwell is the editorial byline behind Meditate's evidence-based guides. Under this name, our editorial team researches and writes the practical guides you'll find across the site — explaining what the peer-reviewed evidence actually says about meditation for anxiety, stress, and sleep, and translating it into language you can use tonight.

Who is Sage Stillwell?

Sage Stillwell is a pen name — a consistent editorial voice for Meditate's research summaries, not a licensed clinician or therapist. We use a single byline so that the guides read with one clear point of view and so the evidence behind each claim is easy to trace. Sage's job is narrow and honest: read the primary research on meditation and sleep, summarize it accurately, and cite it.

How this content is written

Every guide starts from the primary literature — peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA Internal Medicine, Sleep, and Health Psychology Review — not from other blog posts. When a guide states a number or an effect ("meditation reduced wake time by ~44 minutes"), that figure is linked to the study it came from, so you can check it yourself. We don't invent statistics, and we don't overstate what the research shows.

Two therapeutic principles run through the meditations themselves and the writing about them: the ISO Principle (Altshuler, 1948) — meeting you at your current emotional state before guiding toward calm — and the finding that narration with progressively slower pace and lower pitch reduces muscle tension (Bernstein & Borkovec, 2006).

AI disclosure

Meditate's audio is AI-generated — the narration voices and ambient music are synthesized, then mixed with audio processing. Written guides are drafted with AI assistance and reviewed and edited by a person before publishing; the research citations are checked against their primary sources. We disclose this because trust depends on it, and because the science we cite is real regardless of who typed the sentence.

What Sage writes about

Meditation and mindfulness for anxiety, stress reduction, and — increasingly — sleep and insomnia. Sleep is a core focus: much of the strongest clinical evidence for meditation concerns sleep quality, and it's where many readers arrive first.

Important note

This content is informational, not medical advice, and Sage Stillwell is not a licensed clinician. Meditate is designed for relaxation and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) or your local emergency services.