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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Things I learned from Vogue Wellness Retreat![]()
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One of our hosts shared with us, a thought that resonated with me, and I think it will with you, too! ![]()
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I recognised it in the lives of clients, friends, and as much as I don’t like to admit it, areas of my own life too. ![]()
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That is… the often performative, goal-oriented nature of ‘wellness’ in this day, age and society. ![]()
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The retreat was designed to sit away from this, to help to reclaim ‘joy in the pursuit of wellness’ and not perfection or performance. ![]()
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@funmifetto’s welcome note embodied at least 3 of the values that tie so closely to my sleep practices and that, if you’ve followed me for a little while now, you’ll have heard me speak about often.![]()
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So here are the reminders I took away from the wellness retreat a couple of weeks ago…![]()
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🩵There’s power in community.![]()
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Community is important for health! I’ve spoken about this before (and will pin the post); a woman’s sleep quality is impacted by her social support. Her social life matters to her health.![]()
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When we feel supported, we feel safe, and our nervous systems allow us to rest more easily.![]()
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🙃 Joy nurtures our inner child - and that’s important.![]()
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The benefit of embracing joy and looking after the inner child is that our approach to sleep is eased, it allows us to go into the state of rest with less tension, and carrying fewer ‘should’s’, allowing us to accept what is. ![]()
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A childlike attitude in our day-to-day can support sleep and naturally help to avoid fearing failure, both throughout the day and in finding restful sleep.![]()
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Ask yourself, “What do I feel like doing?”. ![]()
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🪷 Goals don’t always help us.![]()
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Yes, consistently getting a good night’s sleep is the ‘goal’, but going back to Funmi’s note, having a goal-oriented mindset for any wellbeing practice can undo some of the good we’re trying to do, as we chase the end goal and negate the benefits.![]()
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If we enter the state of rest thinking I must get to sleep and have a good night’s sleep, we’re putting pressure on ourselves, and the likelihood of that happening then reduces. ![]()
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