You CAN’T sleep? There is an ANSWER.

Cultivating self care and acceptance can be a huge part of successful sleep. Being unkind to ourselves at 2am only increases our stress further and makes sleep even harder.

Talking to others, receiving care and empathy, and allowing ourselves time for processing and tears can contribute to relaxation and sleep.

Our ongoing holding of daily stress makes a horrific impact on our sleep, and finding ways of lowering that stress level directly can deeply support restorative sleep.

This is the reason meditation and yoga can work well for some people as they are very direct ways of lowering internal stress.

The major facets of eating and supplementing for sleep actually revolve around eating to enhance energy and to lower biological stress.

This means eating to optimise anti-stress hormones such as dhea, progesterone, and testosterone, and lower hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, whilst increasing cellular energy.

Almost anything in the environment in which you live could be affecting your sleep from blue light, to air pollution, to a mouldy house.

Though your environment is often a harder one to change, don’t worry- it’s good to be aware of these factors as we can then cultivate more self care for the things outside our control.

Iron deficient...Low vitamin D or A or calcium…High prolactin or PTH…MTHFR, COMT, or other gene mutations…Even a simple case of “too much low carb”.

All of these things make you unique and can mean that your route to great sleep might need to be differently supported than someone else’s.