To mark WorldSleepDay, Stylist’s Lauren Geall sat down with Premier Inn’s resident sleep expert Natalie Pennicotte-Collier to pick apart her sleep habits.
“While there’s less stigma surrounding taking medication for your mental health these days, which is great, GPs don’t necessarily have the knowledge to share the link between antidepressants and sleep and say, actually, the antidepressants are going to change the quality of your sleep and change the recipe of your sleep,” Pennicotte-Collier says.Non-sleep deep rest is a great way to re-energise in the middle of the day.
Instead of increasing how long I sleep at night – I already get around eight hours, after all – Pennicotte-Collier recommended shortening my sleep period slightly, but building in moments of ‘non-sleep deep rest’ throughout the day. “Non-sleep deep rest doesn’t have to be a 20-minute nap or sleep as we know it – it could be a 20-minute nervous system wind down, ideally inThere’s no one way to practise non-sleep deep rest – it can be anything from a walk outside to sitting still on a park bench or in front of a window – all you need to do is ensure you’re making time for stillness and space.
Being able to spend time just with ourselves, Pennicotte-Collier adds, is a great skill to develop when it comes to our sleep as it improves our ability to unwind without the help of external influences like technology.on my lunchtime walks: “Whenever we’re trying to have non-sleep deep rest or a moment of central nervous relaxation, the quieter it can be, the fewer brain regions we’re lighting up.
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