by Caryl Ayearst | Dec 14, 2021 | Nutritional, Sleep
Can you drink your stress away?Well that depends on what you are drinking.Drinking alcohol can feel like it is helping you sleep. In some cases, it can get you to sleep faster. The problem is it causes sleep disruptions in the latter half of sleep during REM state...
by Caryl Ayearst | Nov 15, 2021 | Sleep
“Nothing works”.”I have tried everything!”Does this sound like you?I suspect it does because I think just about everyone that I have spoken to about sleep has said this to me. Hmm probably said that myself back in the day when I wasn’t...
by Caryl Ayearst | Oct 14, 2021 | Sleep
It is natural sometimes to feel anxious.Certainly the pandemic and all that has transpired over the last 18 months has given us a new insight to human behaviour and what anxiety and fear of the unknown can do to our thinking.What I can tell you is that anxiety is not...
by Caryl Ayearst | Sep 15, 2021 | Sleep
The endless cycle of not being able to sleep really does wear you down. When it goes on for what seems like forever, in the back of your mind you start to believe that you will never sleep.Nothing helpsNothing is working.And yet you search for something.I am here to...
by Caryl Ayearst | Aug 11, 2021 | Nutritional, Sleep
When it comes to getting a solid night’s sleep there are so many things that can happen in the body to disrupt your sleep. But that also means that there can be things to put in place to get that good night’s sleep.That is what it takes to get sleep...
by Caryl Ayearst | Jul 20, 2021 | Heart Centred, Sleep
You cannot sleep and it is really affecting your mental health.The frustration of not being able to fall asleep or stay asleep really gets the mind going into a very negative state.Of course, how can you think positive when you are exhausted, have a lack of energy and...
by Caryl Ayearst | Jun 16, 2021 | Sleep
How much of a googler are you? I think, like most of us, it is so easy to google and get instant answers. Like finding the lyrics to a song we cannot remember or an actor who was in a particular movie or what to do with all the zucchini growing abundantly in the...
by Caryl Ayearst | May 19, 2021 | Sleep
Aren’t we always reading how bad stress is for us? How it affects our health, digestion, mood and even our sleep. And yet stress is important for us to function. Stress is natural, a biological human response that saves us from danger by fighting or...
by Caryl Ayearst | Apr 20, 2021 | Sleep
What do you do when you wake up in the morning?Linger in bed? Think about how awful your sleep was?Throw the sheets or pillow over your head hoping to sleep a bit more? Then you get up. What happens next?Head for the washroom?Have a shower? Wash your...
by Caryl Ayearst | Mar 16, 2021 | Sleep
I used to get frequent headaches, in fact, most of them were migraines. Frequently I would reach out for aspirins with codeine – the only thing that worked to get rid of my headaches. The aspirin never stopped the migraines from happening, they just...
