Health and Wellbeing
You Can Get a Better Night’s Sleep
Better sleep starts long before bedtime, with small changes to your afternoon, your evening and your bedroom.
- 25 minutes
- 8 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Cut caffeine and other stimulants at the times that affect your sleep
- Set up a dark, cool bedroom that helps your body make melatonin
- Plan a screen-free wind-down routine for the hour before bed
- Get back to sleep after waking in the night, without clock-watching
- Cope with night sweats and wakefulness during the menopause
About this course
You know how a bad night goes. You're snappy by break time, you can't concentrate and everything feels harder than it should. Then you lie awake the next night worrying about not sleeping.
Start at lunchtime, and cut caffeine from early afternoon, including the hidden kind in tea. Help your body make melatonin, the sleep hormone, with a dark, cool bedroom. Build an hour-long wind-down with no screens, a warm bath and something mindless to do. And if you wake at 2am and can't get back off, you'll know when to get up and why to turn the clock away. A notebook by the bed can empty a racing mind.
If menopause is keeping you (or the person next to you) awake, there are ideas for that too, starting with two single duvets.
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8 modules
Open in order
Introduction
Wrap Up
- 3 min
Why is sleep so important?
- 4 min
Magic Melatonin
- 3 min
During the day
- 5 min
Wind down window
- 7 min
Wakefulness
- 4 min
Sleep & Menopause