Sleepcare Stories — meditation

This year, we urge you to think about who and what your money supports. Mindful sleep care practices go hand in hand with mindful spending. We encourage supporting Black and Persons of Color owned small businesses championing sleep care. Here are five sleep care gifts from Black and POC businesses to power your loved one’s sleep! 

Under previously normal circumstances, the upcoming holidays are a time to reflect on the good in our lives, take a break and spend time, even if only virtually, with our loved ones. However, for many of us, this time of year means stress which negatively impacts our sleep. It is imperative we invest in sleep care and manage our sleep properly during the holiday season. Here’s some sleep care tips.

Most of us have experienced disruption in our sleep from COVID-19. Chronic, acute stress can do that - disrupt the ability to rest. When there is something new causing us to stay awake, we need to source new alternatives to achieve restful sleep, and sleep stories may be it! We need to take care of and protect our sleep. With COVID-19 making sleep harder to achieve, sleep stories are an easy and free addition to your sleepcare routine, the intentional practices that improve and maximize one’s overall well-being during and surrounding sleep.

After hearing Ricardo Imaruui Robsinson talk about noise pollution in our latest installment of Beyond the Sheets, we wondered… How much does noise pollution during the day affect our sleep? First, it’s important to define what noise pollution actually is.  Sound, according to Google Dictionary by Oxford Languages, sounds are “vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.” Noise is a type of sound, an unwanted sound to be exact. EarCare, PA, an AudigyCertified™ practice that pioneers education around hearing, defines noise pollution as any sound that...