The link between insomnia and anxiety!

If you're waking up at 3 to 4 am in the morning and you can't get back to sleep or you find it hard to fall asleep and you've kind of, once you're in that place, the things that are going to keep you or prevent you from falling back to sleep, things like, am I going to be able to sleep? Am I going to be able to function the next day? What about if I'm really tired?

If you haven't slept for a couple of nights, all this kind of thinking is keeping you awake even longer and the thing with insomnia and anxiety is that the less we sleep, the more prone we are to anxiety.

It becomes this self-perpetuating cycle. So, what can you do about this? If this is you, if you're struggling to sleep or you're waking up at 3 – 4 am and it's driving you bananas, then the first thing is sometimes supplements just won't work.

So if you're taking sleep supplements like valerian, you may find that it's just not enough. And, even with medications to help you to fall asleep, you might find that you're groggy the next day and so here are some other options.

First thing is make sure that your blood sugar levels are balanced. One of the things with anxiety is that quite often, it can be caused by a drop in blood glucose levels which can wake us up in the middle of the night.

I recommend to have a snack before, at 9 p.m. or 10 p.m., or  half an hour or 45 minutes before bed and just something like a handful of nuts is sufficient. So that'll keep your blood sugar levels stable during the night.

The second thing is if you're really stressed during the day, what happens is when you're kind of this adrenal-type person where you're always stressed and rushing and you feel under pressure and you're anxious and you're overwhelmed,  your stress hormones are going to be high all day long. And what happens is that at night, it's very hard to relax or we have this rebound effect at night of cortisol and that can be waking us up.

It's important, to improve nighttime sleep, it's important during the day to carve out a period where you could have a break so your stress hormone levels can come down. Even something like just going for a walk out in a park or doing some deep breathing exercises or doing a quick meditation or just do nothing for 10 minutes.

Just to allow your stress hormone levels to come down which has been shown to give you a better sleep at night. And the third thing that I would recommend is there is a really good supplement but you take it during the day and before bed. It's called Rhodiola.

If you're a really heady type of person so you're in your head all day long,  with anxiety you are, then Rhodiola's really good for that mental performance and mental relaxation and kinda just keeping your mental health balanced and it also helps to give us a good sleep at night as well.

So that's a really good herbal remedy for the anxious, overwhelmed and poor sleepers at night. I hope these help, let me know how you go in the comments below when you do them but also to, if you're one of those people that are really struggling with anxiety and exhaustion and low moods and things like that, then I'm running a workshop where I'm gonna talk more about what you can do to overcome this, to really heal your anxiety and your exhaustion and live a fuller, richer, more beautiful life.

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