Don’t wait for holiday. Start recovering now! Here is how.
Recovery happens as part of sleep but also during the day. Here I share tips on how to recover while being awake.
Sleep during the Menopausal Transition
Dr Kat explains how poor sleep reduces quality of life and adds to the feeling of losing control during the perimenopause.
A compassionate approach to poor sleep during the perimenopause
Many women going through the perimenopause (or menopausal transition) experience disturbed sleep. It’s one, if not the, core symptom of this period. According to research, up to 60% of menopausal women suffer from poor sleep – which also has a knock-on effect on their family, work and social lives.
Adopting a compassionate attitude, i.e. taking a moment to respectfully observe yourself struggling with the aim to support yourself, can help to alleviate poor sleep and its daytime consequences.
Tips on Social Isolation and Sleeping Well
Dr Kat has put together some practical tips on how to sleep well while working from home in the face of Covid-19 to support your health and performance.
Healthy Sleep – What it is and Why it Matters
Chances are that when reading about sleep you’ll have come across the term ‘healthy sleep’ or ‘sleep health’. Often there isn’t much of an explanation what those terms refer to and you might have wondered what they actually mean. What is healthy sleep? And after all, isn’t all sleep healthy? Good questions! Well to answer the second question first: no, not all sleep is healthy. But we can do a lot to make it healthy!
How to use sleep smartly in your business
Employees are an organisation’s biggest asset. Or to be more specific, productive employees are. But what makes employees productive and keeps them engaged? Humans aren’t robots who can be left alone to work 24/7. What do employees need to do if they want to be as effective as possible? The answer is to maintain good health, both physically and mentally. But what fosters these? Sleep.
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A compassionate approach to poor sleep during the perimenopause
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A message to future you! 💙💙💙![]()
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The harmful effects of not getting enough sleep aren’t always readily noticeable, but you could protect your future self immensely, so take note. You can help her immensely by doing these small things today, tomorrow, next week and next year. ![]()
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Menopause or Perimenopause may seem a long way off or it may feel like something you don’t want to think about right now, but sleep can support you in preparing for this in ways you may not realise, while supporting your other long term health too! ![]()
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Supporting wellbeing now can help you tackle this inevitable change with more ease and more confidence, and one of the biggest influencers in supporting your wellbeing?![]()
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You guessed it - sleep. ![]()
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💤 💤💤 Sleep helps you to:![]()
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💤 Regulate hormones which as you move towards perimenopause, will begin to fluctuate (one of the main factors in temperature changes) - it helps your body adapt to fluctuating oestrogen and progesterone levels.![]()
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💤 Reduce Inflammation and support recovery. ![]()
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Sleep is one of the biggest components in our bodies’ recovery. Again, fluctuating hormones can impact physical symptoms like inflamation & joint pain - giving your body the quality sleep it really needs to recover and regulate can be game changing. ![]()
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💤 Support Mood and Mental Clarity - both common complaints during this transition, but can be helped immensely by the way we prepare our bodies and quality sleep is one sure way to do it!![]()
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Plus, looking before and after perimenopause, lack of sleep can also impact other issues and diseases - for example lack of sleep can increase the risk for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, it affects mood paving the way for mood disorders, and it might increase the risk of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. ![]()
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So, don’t put it off as unimportant or something you can avoid when you have to, or ‘do with out’. Sleep is valuable to you and your future self.![]()
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If you want to know more about my thoughts on this topic - I’ve written some words that you’ll find linked in my bio. 💙![]()
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