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Sleep & Wellbeing

Guidance for better sleep, steadier moods and a realistic approach to wellbeing after 45. 

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Featured guide

What is sleep health? A grown-up guide to better rest after 45

Sleep is about more than the number of hours you get. Start here for a clear overview of what healthy sleep means after 45, why it can change and which areas may need attention.

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More on sleep and wellbeing

Clear guidance for common sleep problems, changing moods and the realities of feeling well.

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When sleep hygiene is not enough: What CBT-I actually does

When sleep trouble becomes a pattern, better sleep hygiene may not be enough. CBT-I works on the loop that keeps insomnia going.
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  • Sleep & Wellbeing

More irritable than usual? It might not be your personality

A shorter fuse can be stress, poor sleep or something worth checking. Here's how to tell when a change needs attention.
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Why you wake at 3am and why your mind joins in

Waking at 3am is not always bad sleep hygiene. Sometimes the body wakes first, then stress, hormones, worry and midlife mental load join in.
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When sleep becomes another job: Why trying so hard can keep you awake

Sleep advice is meant to help. But when bedtime becomes another thing to optimise, track and slightly fail at, the pressure itself can become part of the problem.

practical tools

Turn the guidance into something practical

Printable tools for difficult nights, steadier routines and noticing useful patterns without turning sleep into another full-time project.

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featured tool

Seven-Day Sleep Reset

A realistic one-week plan for making useful changes without adding more pressure around sleep.

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bedside card

GE 3am Bedside Card

A calm card to keep beside the bed for the moments when you are awake and your mind has arrived too.

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Preview of the one-page Sleep Pattern Checklist.

printable notes

Sleep Pattern Notes

A simple way to notice useful patterns without monitoring, scoring or judging every night.

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wellbeing tools

Take the Mid-Life Mood Check further

Use the accompanying resources to look more closely at changes in mood, sleep, energy and everyday habits, and decide what may need attention next.

PDF • printable

Seven-Step Mood MOT

Decode what your behaviour is telling you.

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PDF • printable

Stop people pleasing

A self reflection and action tool.

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