Sleepcare Stories — self care

There are binaural beats designed to help with stimulus or achieve a beta state, an active and alert state or alpha state, a relaxed state while awake. For falling asleep and achieving a deep sleep, we want binaural beats which promote a theta state of mind, which is a drowsy state of light sleep where we dream. From theta we then want to enter a delta state of mind, a deep state of the unconscious mind where regeneration lives. Or, simply put, delta equals deep sleep.

Anxious and can’t sleep? Stressed out at work? Feeling depressed? Try out yoga nidra, a deep meditative practice! Katie Stewart, a yoga nidra expert, reveals the common fallacies around the art and how to use it for sleep. 

Nollapelli’s innovative fabric is pH balanced – that’s our little beauty secret! Our pillowcases provide optimal overnight conditions for a truly radiant complexion. Sleeping on Nollapelli bed sheets with skin friendly pH helps boost skin cell turnover, prevent dehydration, and nurture the skin’s microbiome. In other words, real beauty sleep.

Beyond the Sheets: Peggy Sealfon, Personal Development Coach & Author, on Acknowledging Fear for Improved Wellness Peggy Sealfon is an author and novelist [her latest book, Awakening: A Novel, won a Firebird Book Award], a personal development coach, motivational speaker and a student and teacher of body, mind and soul alignment. Simply, she is a force awakened in an intersectional wellness world.  In our conversation, Peggy explains the importance of boundaries and acknowledging fear when it comes to stress and anxiety management, particularly when it comes to work/life balance. She notes a huge part to mitigating stress and anxiety is...