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BOOKS
Matthew Walker – Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
In this “compelling and utterly convincing” (The Sunday Times) book, neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity. He also provides actionable steps towards getting a better night’s sleep every night.
Dr. Rangan Chattergee – The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move and Sleep Your Way to A Longer Healthier Life
Dr. Chatterjee is a pioneer in the emerging field of progressive medicine and is changing the way that we look at illness. He is known for finding the root cause of people’s problems by taking a 360-degree approach to health, which was highlighted in his ground-breaking BBC One TV show, Doctor in the House.
He is the resident doctor on BBC One’s Breakfast, a regular commentator on BBC Radio and gave an inspirational TEDx talk on making diseases disappear. He writes for The Huffington Post, Mind Body Green and has a monthly column on lifestyle medicine in Top Sante. He regularly lectures on his subject at events and conferences around the world.
Ariana Huffington – The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
Co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives, our personal lives–and even our sex lives in this New York Times bestseller. In The Sleep Revolution, Huffington explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She takes on the sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She alsooffers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power.
The result is a deep exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation, and the new golden age of sleep science that reveals the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health–from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
Justina Lasley – Wake Up to Your Dreams: Transform Your Relationships, Career and Health While You Sleep
Wake Up to Your Dreams will inspire you to awaken to your authentic Self and greatest potential, by introducing you to the incredible wealth of wisdom available nightly in your dreams. Learn to easily remember, record, and dissect your dreams to better understand yourself and your life.
Wake Up to Your Dreams teaches you to use night time dreams as a tool to awaken your most authentic, creative, and spiritual self and thus to lead a more fulfilling and joyful life. Justina Lasley reveals her inspiring personal story of change and transformation, and explains how dreams have impacted her life in countless positive ways. She also shares others’ unique stories, dreams and personal growth.
Sondra Kornblatt – Restful Insomnia: How to Get the Benefit of Restful Sleep Even When You Can’t
Sondra Kornblatt teaches you how to get the benefits of restful sleep even when you can’t. If you’ve suffered from countless nights of sleep deprivation, then this book is essential to helping you thrive in the night. Kornblatt teaches you how to bring rest to your body with a unique form of night yoga, quiet your mind through guided meditation and quell your soul’s worries through night writing. Instead of leaving your bed worn out by sleeplessness, leave your bed refreshed and ready to conquer the day. Restful Insomnia promises to give you the tools to thrive while functioning on little to no sleep.
Dr. Robert Rosenberg –Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day
If you or someone you love has problems sleeping, Dr. Robert S. Rosenberg will help you identify the issue and provide targeted solutions so you can start awakening refreshed and renewed immediately. Based on the most recent research and including real patient stories from his practice, Dr. Rosenberg will help you prevent and manage sleep disorders, including insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, snoring, sleepwalking, and sleep eating. Learn how to find relief from your symptoms with clinically tested options and benefit from new findings connecting PTSD and ADHD to sleep disorders and discover techniques that will help you regain energy, reduce stress, and build the foundations for better health.
SLEEP JOURNALS
Lee Crutchley – The Nocturnal Journal: A Late-Night Exploration of What’s Really on Your Mind
An engaging and emotionally aware resource for night owls, insomniacs, and anyone else who finds themselves awake at all hours, The Nocturnal Journal will help you explore what keeps you up at night, and why. Prompts and illustrations tease out the pressing thoughts, deep questions, everyday anxieties, and half-formed creative ideas that need unpacking and exploring, bringing more peace of mind and a richer understanding of ourselves. The perfect gift for journal lovers and anyone seeking emotional wellness, self care, and a clearer mind.
Self-Care: A Day and Night Reflection Journal (90 Days)
This guided journal encourages the cultivation of mindfulness and general well-being amid a busy modern lifestyle. It provides a space to commit to your self-care routine with intention and dedication—helping you develop positive thinking, overcome challenging and stressful experiences and negative emotions, and cultivate a general sense of well-being and a healthy lifestyle.
The 90-day journal gives you a path to creating a habit of regular self-care that you can carry with you throughout your life. Record your thoughts and activities and consider how they affect your emotional and physical health.
Find Your Own Magic: Guided Self-Care Journal with Prompts to Boost Mindfulness, Gratitude and Positivity | Improve Wellness and Self Love
Use the power of journaling in a structured year of self-reflection to enhance the quality of life and become your best self. Explore scientifically proven techniques to relieve anxiety, boost motivation and light that happy spark. Pick different affirmation, meditation and drawing practices that will allow you to enjoy your journey now, not later and achieve your goals with writing and creative thinking.
Treat yourself to this beautiful journal filled with hand-drawn illustrations by award-winning Elizabeth Ermenkova, and spend time with yourself – the most important person in your life.
Big Life Journal – Daily Journal for Kids – A Growth Mindset Workbook for Children
This fun growth mindset workbook for kids is a 5-minute daily practice for children age 6-11 to express their feelings and develop a growth mindset.
The journal provides a safe space for children to digest their day, find the good and not so good things, and reflect on things they can improve.
It helps them focus on encouraging, self-loving thoughts, and grow resilient, confident and emotionally healthy. At the end of this guided journal, your child will find a sheet of colorful stickers with inspiring messages for a boost of positivity whenever they need it!
SLEEP HYGIENE
Wake Up Light Sunrise Alarm Clock
This Sleep Aid digital alarm clock is designed for everyone, especially for heavy sleepers and kids. Sunrise simulation light with 7 natural sounds will be on gradually from 10% brightness to 100% by 30 minutes before alarm setting time. If you think 30 minutes is too long, you can set the process to 20 minutes or 10 minutes. Wake you up by nature.
You can set up two different alarms and the snooze function is specially designed for those who needs an extra 9 minutes to start a fresh day. If those 9 minutes aren’t enough, you can snooze up to 5 times.
And finally, there’s a 7-color changing light – options include blue, indigo, purple, red, orange, yellow, green. 3 level LED time display brightness & 20 level lighting brightness adjustable.
Dyson Pure Cool Link –Wi-Fi Enabled Air Purifier –
The Dyson Pure Cool Link purifies all year and cools you as a fan in summer. Its HEPA filter automatically removes 99.97 percent of allergens and pollutants as small as 0.3 microns including pollen, dust, mold spores, bacteria and pet dander from your home.
The second layer in air purifier’s filter contains activated carbon to capture household odors and volatile organic compounds like paint fumes. , Certified asthma and allergy friendly, it automatically monitors and reacts to smells and allergens and its Link app provides real time air quality reports and allows you to remotely control your machine from your smartphone.
The unit includes night time mode, sleep timer, and an easy to clean aperture with no fast spinning blades so it’s safe for little fingers or paws. Other features include oscillation, 10 airspeed settings and automatic shut off if machine is tipped over. And finally, the Dyson Pure Cool Link now works with Amazon’s Alexa.
Circadian Optics Light Therapy Lamp – This UV-Free LED Light Sun Lamp with 10,000 Lux is a sleep aid, brain booster and stress relief. The full spectrum sunlight lamp is stylish and UV-free. It delivers safe and natural LED light that our bodies need and are perfect for improving insomnia, jet lag and seasonal blues. Its one-touch operation makes it simple to use with 3 levels allowing you to customize the brightness for the best efficacy and comfort. This therapy light provides the recommended 10,000 LUX of brightness to help the winter blues, regulate sleep, improve focus, boost energy and make us feel less sad. The light therapy lamp is designed to mimic the colors of daylight.The LED natural light lamp lasts approximately 50,000 hours and produces uniform, dot-free light that has the same quality of the noonday full-spectrum sun (5500K).
Wireless Sleep Headphones – These Perytong Bluetooth Sports Headband Headphones with Ultra-Thin HD Stereo Speakers are perfect for sleeping, working out, jogging, yoga, air travel and meditation. The soft headband design with wireless sleep headset inside, allows you to enjoy hands free and wire-free music. Its bluetooth, built-in ultra-thin speakers are comfortable enough to wear while lying down or sleeping on your side.
Bluetooth headband headphones are made of durable braided cord and offer a breathable mesh lining, extremely stretchable, fit most head size and they’re soft, hypoallergenic and machine washable – just remove the headphones from the pouch. What I personally like about them is that you can still hear what’s going on around you which is crucial if you have children or other people in your household who depend on you 24/7.
Waowoo Adult Weighted Blanket – Weighted Blankets are great for adults (and children) who have problems with anxiety, insomnia, sleep deprivation or even more serious conditions. Waowoo Adult Weighted Blankets are designed to weigh approximately 10% of the user’s total body weight and relax by simulating the feeling of being held or hugged. In order to decide which blanket weight is right for you, multiply your body weight by 10% and add a pound. (Blanket weight = 10% x body weight + 1 pound.) This blanket is machine washable and can be used as is.
The Magicteam Sound Machines White Noise Machine offers 20 Non-Looping Sleep Sounds – white noise, brown noise, pink noise, blue noise, fan, brook, rain, ocean, bird and bonfire – suitable for babies, kids and adults. Its precise volume and timer settings with 32 levels of volume are perfect for sleeping babies and you can set the timer for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 hours or continuous play.
SLEEP PRODUCTS
ThisWorks Deep Sleep Pillow Spray: Natural Sleep Aid, Stress & Anxiety Relief – When we sleep our skin cells repair and harmful toxins are removed, making sleep the ultimate beauty secret and first step in your skincare routine.. This award-winning proven, natural, aromatherapeutic superblend of lavender, vetivert and camomile calms both mind and body, soothing you to sleep. Use this at bedtime to help reduce sleep anxiety and improve sleep quality.
Simply spritz your pillow before you sleep.
Lavender Linen and Room Spray – Drift off to sleep and wake up feeling fresh with this lavender pillow spray. The pure essential oil lavender spray will calm the mind and help you rest easy. This 100% plant-based lavender oil concentrated room spray works to neutralizer odors the safe and natural way. Hand-blended straight from the spa capital of the world, Thailand. This can be used not only on pillows, but also as a freshener for sheets, clothing, yoga mats, cars, furniture, toilets, showers, offices, dryers, carpets and mattresses.
Monster Masher Children’s Sleep Spray – This calming natural mandarin mist repels monsters. It is made with pure essential oils and natural ingredients and completely child safe. It is designed to protect your little ones from monsters, ghouls, and boogeymen. Spray on pillows, bedding, pajamas, and anywhere monsters might be hiding. I love this spray, the way it smells and its name is inspired.