helping you with...
SLEEP
Tired of restless nights? You deserve to sleep well.
Your functional roadmap to better sleep
Get to the root cause of your sleep issues and enjoy relief and restful, restorative sleep.
Did you know ...
Sleep supports mood, energy, resilience and optimal functioning
Sleep is vital to physical and mental health, allowing time each day for the body to rest and heal. Sleep contributes to positive mental health, which helps people develop meaningful relationships and grow in the face of challenges.
Addressing underlying and contributing factors, body imbalances, brain chemistry and stress, emotion issues better sleep occurs.
The damaging effects of poor sleep:
- Irritability and reduced motivation
- Lethargy, exhaustion, fatigue, burn-out
- Mood disturbances
- Accelerated aging
- Poor focus and memory
- Reduced immune function
- Emotional and mental health issues
- Other health problems
Finding underlying, root causes
Addressing root causes is key to restoring your sleep
Similar causes underly the 2-way relationship between sleep and other mental health disorders: anxiety, ADHD, OCD, depression, substance abuse, fatigue, stress, trauma, PTSD, pain, autism, bipolar and panic disorder. So, determining root causes follows a similar approach. To learn more review the Anxiety and Depression pages.
In summary, we need to address any underlying gut issues, genetics, biochemistry, stress, hormones, methylation nutrient deficiencies, toxins, inflammation, pyrrole disorder, immunity and metabolic imbalances to fully resolve sleep issues.
Factors I Address Specific to Sleep
- Optimising sleep-wake cycle
- Circadian rhythms fluctuate across each 24-hours, regulating our sleep-wake cycle.
- The hormone melatonin helps control the sleep-wake cycle, levels are low during the day so we’re alert, and increase in the evening readying us for sleep at night. Serotonin helps produce melatonin and light suppresses melatonin release.
- Managing stress and blood sugar
- Physical (including blood sugar issues), mental or emotional stress activates releases cortisol and adrenaline, stress hormones making it harder to relax and fall asleep.
- Glucose needs to be evenly released overnight to keep our bodies fasting so we stay asleep. Poorly managed blood sugar can cause night waking as the body struggles to remain fasting and therefore asleep.
- Lifestyle and environmental factors
- Review and discuss any medications that are affecting sleep
- Poor sleep hygiene, irregular sleep schedules, excess exposure to electronic devices/Screens, caffeine or alcohol, lack of physical activity, sedentary lifestyle can contribute to insomnia.
- Excessive noise, uncomfortable room temperature, improper bedding, or disruptions in the sleep environment can also affect sleep quality.
By addressing these factors, better sleep occurs.
Using the functional wellness process,
personalised care can be tailored to restore your sleep
An integrated whole-body natural program is created to address root causes and support your natural ability to go to sleep, sleep deeply, wake refreshed and energised.
Success requires your willingness to make changes and your commitment to the process.
For those suffering chronic insomnia, it will get better, but patience is encouraged as it’s not an overnight fix.
Sleep support
While working on your deeper issues, we give support so you can start experiencing improvements.
I offer a safe space and the tools to help people change, grow and heal. Using my skills in vagus nerve therapy, Butekyo breathing, emotional healing, trauma release, mindfulness, stress reduction (heart rate variability) and neurofeedback we can rewire the brain and nervous system for optimal emotional and mental health.
In this way, we address emotional, stress, mental, behavioural factors that stop you from sleeping well.