Sport + Life

I don’t know about you, but I don’t really struggle to do health-related things like exercising and eating vegetables. But I’ve founding sleeping well on a regular basis to be a bit of a challenge. Shift work as a sports broadcaster - 2am get-ups in the same week as 2am bedtimes - hasn’t helped. But fundamentally sleeping is the anti-do: relaxation isn’t something you can force through with discipline or the ability to form behavioural habits.And the more you think or worry about sleep - or document it with technology - the harder it can seem to actually relax enough to nod off. We now live in a world where we’re being bombarded with information about how important sleep is to our short-term daily performance and chances of long-term good health. This can be anxiety-inducing and counterproductive to sleep!In this context, I found restorative sleep coach Holly Hannigan-Mills’ approach to helping people get good kip very refreshing and very useful. Holly has been helping people sleep for nearly 10 years. T