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Stop sabotaging your sleep!
It’s easy to let negative thoughts turn one bad night into a problem. To mark World Sleep Day on 18 March, our expert shares her secrets for reframing worries around sleep, so you can get back to enjoying peaceful slumber
WORDS: LARISSA CHAPMAN.
Sleep… it’s such a simple, natural process. Much like eating and breathing, it seems innate and should be so easy to achieve. But, despite this, many of us struggle with it. Whether it’s not being able to drif off, or being unable to stay asleep for the whole night, our sleep habits can have a profound impact on our mental wellbeing and trigger negative thoughts, which can be hard to ignore.
These negative thoughts can have an even bigger impact on our health than the sleep issues themselves, and then, guess what? That causes even more problems when it comes to setting sail for the land of nod.
We’ve enlisted the help of sleep expert Stephanie Romiszewski to talk us through some of the most common negative thoughts around sleep, and to show us how, by simply switching up our mindset, we can achieve great things for our health and our sleep.
Expert advice
Stephanie Romiszewski is an expert sleep physiologist and the director of the Sleepyhead Clinic and Program. @stephsleepyhead; sleepyhead program.com
Negative thought: ‘I won’t be able to get to sleep until the early hours’
Reframe it: ‘I’m going to stay up and enjoy my evening until I feel sleepy enough to drop off’