Ep134: Sleep and Anxiety: How to Manage Anxiety and Sleep Better with Dr. Margaret Sinclair

OVERVIEW

You may have experienced that you cannot sleep and your thoughts go around and your brain does not shut down, you may be experiencing anxiety or it is stress-related. If anxiety or stress gets in the way of sleep at night what can we do to manage that, especially with women in menopause?

In today’s episode Dr. Margaret Sinclair, an Osteopath, EFT, CBT Herbal Therapist Coach will share her insights on managing sleep and anxiety, she will also go in-depth with the approach to get better sleep for people with menopause using the tapping method, mindfulness and gratitude exercise, emotional freedom and thought patterns.

“A good night sleep helps you cope better with life which makes you less stress, less anxious it also helps with weight loss and balance hormones”. - Dr. Margaret Sinclair

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WHAT WILL WE LEARN

3:30 - Margaret's background
3:57 - Demographics and support population
4:25 - High Anxiety among Menopause
4:53 - Clinical work observations on sleeping better
5:19 - Factors that affect sleeping better with the menopause population.
8:15 - Sunlight clock to wake you up gently
11:20 - Brain dump through writing before bedtime
16:10 - Writing can be soothing and improve mindfulness
18:07 - Phones inside the room may increase Cortisol levels
20:00 - To-do list and how you remember things for the next day.
23:11 - Approach to getting better sleep for people in menopause
25:25 - Tapping routine
31:00 - Mindfulness and Gratitude exercise
34:00 - Emotional freedom and thought patterns
37:51 - Connect with Margaret - https://thenadarraprocess.com/index.html

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