If you’re feeling exhausted during the day, your sleep isn’t always to blame. There’s actually another big culprit for tiredness that’s often behind this fatigue. Stress.

With everything that’s happened since 2020, it’s easy to feel consumed by worry; whether it’s social media scrolling or simply watching the evening news, we’re constantly being bombarded with bad news…

Although sleep is undeniably a vital pillar of wellbeing, it is not the only one, and you can’t overcome stress with sleep alone. You can’t put all your eggs in one basket with sleep and think it will help overcome all your problems.

If you’re sleeping poorly, it’s not just night-time that can be a struggle, your energy levels during the day can be affected too. From lacking motivation, to simply feeling tired, if you’re struggling to sleep, it can be difficult to focus and make the most of each day.

It’s not just lack of sleep which makes us tired and negatively impacts on our daytime functioning. Our negative thoughts around lack of sleep leave us exhausted too. Stressing out about your sleep won’t help to improve it, but it will leave you feeling worse.

As part of my mission to get the UK sleeping better I am running a series of FREE sleep webinars. Fin you more about why this will webbing will reassure you that you CAN learn to sleep well and live better.

It’s the holiday of a lifetime. You’ve saved up all year and you’re finally on the wind down before your big break. There’s just one problem. Jet lag. Even if you’ve never experienced it before, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the stories and you likely have some concerns. 

We often say that we feel tired but actually in order to fall asleep we need to be 'sleepy'. But how can we tell the difference? As you probably have experienced you may feel exhausted but then you get into bed and sleep doesn't come.