CBT for Sleep: How to Retrain Your Brain for Better Sleep

CBT for Sleep: How to Retrain Your Brain for Better Sleep

Unfortunately, CBT for sleep is criminally underutilised, despite how effective it is.  I am sure you can relate to the following scenario, and it is something that CBT can actually help with. It’s 2:17 am. You know this because you’ve just checked...
Stress Management and Sleep: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Stress Management and Sleep: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Most people aren’t aware of just how powerful the relationship between stress management and sleep is, or that it affects virtually everything else in your life. As a result, it’s one of the most overlooked aspects of sleep hygiene. You can optimise your sleep...
Body Weight Management: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Body Weight Management: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Body weight management is often not something that people associate with sleep hygiene, but it is actually incredibly important for your sleep. There’s a relationship between body weight and sleep that most people don’t fully appreciate, and it’s not...
Nutrition and Sleep: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Nutrition and Sleep: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Most people don’t realise the intrinsic relationship between nutrition and sleep, but the reality is that they are inseparable. Each is constantly influencing the other in ways that either support your wellbeing or undermine it. You might optimise your sleep...
Exercise and Sleep: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Exercise and Sleep: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

The relationship between exercise and sleep is quite robust, and it is one of those things that people tend to ignore, despite just how important exercise is to good quality sleep. I have seen multiple people who have had terrible sleep for years, completely cure...
Stimulant Management: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Stimulant Management: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Stimulant management is crucial if you are to get good sleep. Unfortunately, people often skip it. They do everything else right with their sleep hygiene, but then they pay no attention to their stimulant intake or timing, and as a result, they still struggle with...
Sleep Environment Optimisation: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Sleep Environment Optimisation: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Sleep environment optimisation is the next stop in the tour of foundational sleep hygiene habits. You should have already established consistent sleep and wake times, built a wind down routine that transitions your nervous system from activation to rest, sorted your...
Light Exposure Management: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Light Exposure Management: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Light exposure management is the next thing we need to discuss in this series on foundational sleep hygiene. If you have been following along, we’ve already discussed the importance of tracking your sleep, we’ve also established that consistent sleep and wake...
Wind Down Routine: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Wind Down Routine: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Most people, unfortunately, don’t have a consistent wind down routine, and this is one of the core reasons they have poor sleep. In the previous article, we discussed how consistent sleep and wake times give your circadian rhythm the predictability it needs to work...
Consistent Sleep and Wake Times: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Consistent Sleep and Wake Times: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

The next foundational sleep hygiene habit we must discuss in this series is consistent sleep and wake times. In the last article, we talked about tracking your sleep, learning to pay attention to the patterns that govern how well you rest, and building awareness of...