Over the years, I’ve experienced poor quality of sleep for one reason or another, most recently due to the menopause. Many of us will experience poor sleep at some stage in our lives. However, when the global pandemic, COVID-19 hit, stress levels spiked for many of...
It has taken me some time to figure out what works for me to sleep well. Life sometimes makes a good night sleep feel like a luxury. Looking back at the times I complained about the afternoon nap my mother made me have as a child, I wish I could have those hours back....
According to Jim Horne, Britain’s leading sleep expert, women need twenty minutes more sleep than a man. In essence, the more we use our brain the more it needs rest while we sleep. We need seven to nine hours sleep to function well the following day. Women are more...
Over the years I’ve suffered with dark puffy circles under my eyes, with varying degrees of intensity. I’ve come to learn that some of the reasons I developed dark circles at any point in time were one or a combination of the following reasions; not...
There are lots of things that scare me – spiders, snakes, my husband when he thinks it’s funny to jump out at me in a dark hallway in the middle of the night – but none of these admittedly scary things have anything on a post-partum nurse telling you...
…that’s when the fun REALLY begins my house! And no, I’m not talking ‘mummy daddy time’. Sleep Deprivation So here’s the situation, motherhood has thought why me sleep deprivation is used as a means of torture. My days, nights, sleeping and waking all...
