I am super excited to announce I have partnered up with REVIVO Wellness in Nusa Dua, Bali to create the ultimate sleep and relaxation workshop. REVIVO is the latest 5 star wellness resort to be set up in Bali offering a sophisticated blend of state-of-the-art and traditional treatments and activities. It’s the perfect place for…
Today I’m going to discuss the 5 stages of sleep and why each stage is so important. I’m not going to go into too much detail about what happens to your brainwaves and what you will see on your electroencephalograph (ECG) as I would rather tell you why each stage is so vital to your…
From helping you feel better, to banishing under eye wrinkles, the benefits of sleep are endless – here are 6 more reasons to motivate you to get a good night sleep. Sleep can help with your diet • It can reduce your cravings for unhealthy food – Studies show sleep deprived people crave more junk…
More and more scientists are discovering the connection between the mind and the gut with the mantra being if you can heal your gut, you can heal many other health problems as well including anxiety, depression and insomnia. Everyone seems to know that probiotics are great for wellbeing, but what isn’t so well known is…
I’ve had this theory for years and years that when I’ve slept well I look far better than when I’ve had poor sleep, and will go as far as say that I go from appearing attractive to the opposite sex to relatively unattractive. For so long people have told me it was all in my…
Forever on the lookout for ways to improve your sleep, I stumbled across the idea that if you have 6 days of 28 hours as opposed to 7 days of 24 hours, you may have really great sleep. This could be a tip if you’re a night worker or huge party animal. Though I don’t…
Sleep is something the majority of people take for granted, that is of course until the day they find themselves with a bad bout of insomnia. Then it can become an ongoing daily battle, with obsession sometimes setting in, in turn leading to a whole new set of problems such as depression, breakdown in relationships,…
Just as the old adage say, one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to never go to bed angry. A sure fire way for me to have a bout of insomnia is to fight before bed. Fighting hypes up the fight or flight adrenal glands and surges of adrenalin and…
There are different types of insomnia which present itself as difficulty maintaining sleep, difficulty initiating sleep, early waking, non restorative sleep or worse still a combination of each. I will address here difficulty falling asleep. Causes of this include: psychiatric influences such as anxiety or tension whereby insomnia could be the symptom of recent worry…