Savvy 'n' Sassy

Hello and welcome back to the Savvy 'n' Sassy blog today. This week I am running a series about sleep, something I am certainly deprived of! Reading all your emails and concerns, it is really apparent that I am not alone! There are millions of us women walking around in a zombified state yet still somehow getting through the day and being super heroes! because of this I have been researching various aspects of sleep to find out how it affects us and what we can do about it. The result of my research is a "SLEEP MINI SERIES" for you. So here is how this mini series is going to pan out; 1. Why a Good Nights Sleep is essential to your beauty routine, 2. How Sleep Changes throughout your life, 3. Sleep challenges for older adults, 4. 10 top tips to beat insomnia, and 5. Living with insomnia - myths debunked. Each part will be released daily. Come back each day for the latest instalment! I truly hope that this will be really useful for you. Plea...

top 10 tips to beat hot flushes say goodbye to hot flushes in super easy steps + free tracker sheets! What is a hot flush/flash? These can happen for several reasons but this article is about hot flushes in women of peri/menopausal age. During this period of a woman’s life estrogen levels drop. This causes havoc with our body temperature controls. They get all over excited and try to regulate our body temp’. Unfortunately, this results on what we know as hot flushes and night sweats. Up to 75% of women will experience them. Some experience a raging furnace whilst others will have much milder barely noticeable increases in body temperature. They are characterized as a sudden heat rising through the body for no apparent reason. Women describe feeling that their clothes feel heavy and uncomfortable, they feel faint and experience palpitations and for those who experience them at night, that their nightwear is soaking wet. To join the chat / vlog   CLICK HERE . ...

Common Signs of the Perimenopause! Perimenopause was a word that terrified me. It meant I was getting old, wouldn't have any more children and would fade away into unsexy oblivion! The thing is I didn't want any more children, the two I have are beyond awesome. I don't feel old and my husband still fancies me - so what was the problem? For a start I did not understand what perimenopause meant! Also because I only feel seventeen inside, I couldn't possibly be old enough to be lurching forward to the menopause! I was too embarrassed to admit it and would find excuses to explain hot flushes etc! What a fool! I have heard other  friends make excuses or be terrified by a symptom. I realised I was not alone and so have put together a list of the most common perimenopause symptoms. Check through it and reassure yourself…...or....if you want to view the video chat  click here and enjoy the chat! Signs of the perimenopause 1.Changes in your period They may be...