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HOW I AM CURING MY INSOMNIA AND YOU CAN TOO! Hello! Welcome back to the "Sleeping Beauty" mini series where we have been looking at the many different aspects of sleep and why it often escapes us! If like me you are fed up with feeling permanently exhausted these tips will help you wake refreshed and ready to face your day with energy and oomph. Sounds great?  I have created a relaxing slide show for you with my TOP 10 Tips for getting yourself a great nights' sleep! I am practising them and believe it or not things are improving already.  Why not give them a go yourself and reap the benefits too? You might also like  How sleep changes through our lives and  The beauty benefits of a good nights' sleep . There are two more parts of this mini series to go! Wishing you a wonderful day and a refreshing sleep tonight, Namaste Janie S xxx

SLEEPING BEAUTY – PART 2 HOW SLEEP PATTERNS CHANGE THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES Cippow25 deviant art So, it’s 4am and you are staring at the ceiling knowing you are going to be awake for at least another hour. When you were a child you couldn’t ever wake up for school and had to be roused. What on earth has happened? Well of course life has interrupted us rudely! We have children, forged a career, worry about bills, get hot flushes/flashes…….no wonder we don’t sleep like a child. Many believe that fewer hours asleep is the price we pay for getting older and in part it is however, that doesn’t mean we can’t get a good few hours of refreshing sleep. How many hours do we need? Well 7 to 9 is probably optimum but in reality it is the amount of hours you need to wake up feeling alert and fresh without the aid of an alarm clock. In reality given the fast pace of life that probably doesn’t happen too often. Many of us are snatching just a few interrupted hours a night and despi...

Hello! W elcome to part one of the "SLEEPING BEAUTY" mini series at  Savvy 'n Sassy ! Our beauty routines often involve expensive layer after layer of creams and serums and whilst these help, there are natural bodily functions that can help us even more than your sixty quid serum. The function I am talking about is SLEEP! As we sleep our body repairs itself which in turn brings us amazing health and beauty benefits! Michael Breuss, PHD suggests that if we get less than six hours it is probably affecting our looks. The critical amount of sleep that we need is 7 to 9 hours! (I wish!). If we could just get an extra 1 to 3 hours of shut eye, Breuss (1) says that we will notice the difference in a day! I dream of getting even 5 hours of sleep a night. Anyone who knows me knows that I am always struggling with dark under eye circles due to lack of sleep. I would love them to diminish! So, what are the beauty benefits of getting more sleep? * A h ealthier, fuller ...

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...

5 reasons you must cleanse your face! and the reasons are shocking! Oh, I know, it feels like such a grind having to find five minutes out of our hectic schedule every evening and just a couple of minutes first thing in the morning to clean our faces. Guess what? If you can just squeeze in under 8 minutes a day into your diary you will not regret it! If you want to see the Vlog on this grab yourself a cuppa and click right here!   I know it is easy to think that letting the shower water run over your face is a good job done but hey that’s just lazy and is not good enough. In the evening, double cleanse and in the morning, a single cleanse will give you a great start to the day!   Top 5 reasons to cleanse day and night…. regularly! 1.       Your skin will stay looking younger for a helluva lot longer! Just like we need oxygen to live, our skin needs oxygen to rejuvenate and do its important repair work whilst we sleep. ...

Mind the Gap!  Savvy answers for Sassy women to bust the pay gap justification myths! So, there has been a real hullabaloo about the BBC and their curious way of paying women far less than men. As soon as we women get lippy about it you can guarantee that there are people who love peddling myths as to why it is okay to pay women differently! Some even like to throw in inexcusable racism whilst they are at it! Sunday Times Sack Journalist Over Racist/Sexist Pay Gap Article. How much longer do you think the Editor will last?! To help you get through any argument you may encounter over coffee or a bottle of something fresh and fruity, I have compiled a list of commonly peddled myths/pathetic arguments and some great answers for you! I have kept it clean although to be honest it would be easier to just laugh at them and call them a co**womble! But, as we are intelligent women we won’t stoop to such levels! Before you get reading let me just say I don't hate men at all,...

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 . ...