Category: Sleep Deep Method

Custom Comfort This Christmas With The SIMBA Hybrid Pillow (Gifted Review)

~ Eleanor Segall ~ 2 Comments

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I have been really lucky that this festive season, SIMBA beds have gifted me their Custom Comfort Hybrid Pillow to use to help support my head and neck and get a wonderful night’s sleep.

This pillow is designed for revolutionary, personalised comfort. A unique fusion of superb, down-like cushioning with innovative tech. The pillow contains a cotton cover with cool touch tech to support better sleep. It has adjustable height and firmness with a supportive core and a mesh border for maximum air flow, once opened! Plus, it has a washable cover (always a bonus!). SIMBA have truly thought of everything to give you excellent comfort.

I received the pillow in the post, it is large (about A3 size) and SIMBA have said that it has special foam Nanocubes® technology! The turquoise cubes mean its not too soft, not too high, not too firm… always ‘just right’. I find it so comfortable!

SIMBA describe this as, ‘Thanks to the knitted, inner pillow of tiny, squishy, foam Nanocubes® you’ll find at the heart of every Hybrid® pillow; not only does this clever system encourage greater airflow, but you can also remove/add cubes to achieve the height and firmness you prefer in your pillow.’

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I often find also that I get hot at night or it is just too warm from the central heating to sleep in winter. So what could be more helpful than the cooling aspect of this pillow? . It dissipates excess heat and provides instant coolness! This is due to its Stratos® cool-touch tech similar to the innovation that keeps astronauts cool in space! This pillow is also Menopause friendly, so great for any hot flushes at night time.

The pillow feels firm yet comfortable with a definite softness that makes me want to sink right in to it. I love the fact it is adjustable and helps me feel cool at night too. SIMBA say that ‘A soft, cloud-like fill is key to the superb comfort and quality of our pillows and duvets. It consists of springy polyester fibres gently combed and folded into airy, cushioning layers.’

For good sleep hygiene and having a cool, calm bedroom with good support for your head, I really recommend the SIMBA Hybrid Pillow. After one night, I am already loving it and I cannot wait to use it for many more nights for a gentle and comfort filled sleep. Good sleep is so integral to good mental health- thanks SIMBA for letting me have and review this pillow!

I was gifted a SIMBA Hybrid Pillow, in return for an honest review. This article contains non-sponsored links.


Creating A Calm Bedroom with SIMBA Hybrid Duvet (Gifted Review)

~ Eleanor Segall ~ 2 Comments

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Whether you struggle with your mental health or not, one way you can boost overall wellbeing, is to create a peaceful, calm bedroom environment. As well as keeping your room relaxed, tidy, clean and restful, you will want to look at your bed and bedding. This can all help to aid better sleep quality!

The team at SIMBA bedding and mattresses, gifted me one of their duvets to try, the Hybrid duvet. This luxurious 10.5 Tog duvet is suitable for year-round use. The Simba Renew Bio™ fill ensures wonderful, down-like softness and warmth, as well as superb breathability for a non-clammy feel; the fresh, cotton outer features their Stratos® temperature control tech to help dissipate excess heat. Perfect for me as I can get really warm at night and really good for the spring/ summer season! It felt super cosy and soft, and I had a great nights sleep.

Experts and SIMBA believe that when a bedroom has good feng shui, the nervous system can relax and we enter a place of safety, which helps promote a better night’s rest. Sleep hygiene and sleeping environment play a significant role in the quality of sleep we get at night.

They say,

‘Your bed is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home with respect to your feng shui.  When you’re sleeping, you’re classified as being in a passive yin state – and therefore more receptive to the vibrations around you. The bed is also the most private place in your home. It absorbs your qi and represents you.

We think we can help with that. Simba’s premium Bed Range allows you to create your ideal bed and choose all the specific features you need. with flexible under bed storage options, in single, double, king and super king. With 500 possible combinations, you can truly get the right look, colour, finish, storage and size for your space, and still have a bed that is unique to you.’

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I love to have bedding that feels dreamy, induces calm and promotes a zen-like atmosphere. I feel so lucky to have tried my SIMBA duvet and know it will become a staple in my bedroom. As I struggle with anxiety, its so important that my bedroom is a place of calm and quiet, to help promote positive wellbeing. Good sleep often can mean good mental health and I can’t wait to curl up each night!

I was gifted a SIMBA duvet, in return for an honest review. This article contains non-sponsored links.

How to Manage Insomnia when you’re planning a Wedding- (blog extract) for Metro.co.uk by Eleanor

~ Eleanor Segall ~ 2 Comments

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Last month, my fiancé proposed to me at the Shard with a beautiful London sunset as the backdrop. We had been dating for 18 months and had talked about marriage and future plans, so it wasn’t a huge surprise. But it was still very exciting when he went down on one knee. As I accepted his proposal, we both felt huge excitement as we started this new chapter.

We were buzzing to share the news with our nearest and dearest. In the days following, I had so much adrenaline that I found it hard to sleep. I was regularly lying awake at 4am reading messages or trying to absorb the occasion. I found it hard to switch off. I wondered whether others had gone through something similar following their engagement, and how best to deal with the stress.

Alison Gardner, a psychologist and sleep expert at Sleep Station, which provides cognitive behavioural therapy and has been commissioned and approved by the NHS, tells Metro.co.uk: ‘Insomnia varies in how long it lasts and how often. It can be short-term (acute insomnia) or can last a long time (chronic insomnia). Acute insomnia can last from one night to a few weeks.’

Insomnia is defined as chronic when a person has trouble sleeping at least three nights a week, for a month or longer. For many people, a stressful event could be the trigger that stops them sleeping. This is normal, until insomnia becomes chronic.

Mental health problems and insomnia often come together. It’s been estimated that 60% of people who meet the criteria for major depressive disorders complain of insomnia. But life events, such as the stress of an engagement and planning a wedding, can lead to missed or poor sleep.

Cat Phillips, a blogger and writer, says: ‘I had sleep issues when planning my wedding. I had months of bad anxiety dreams about everything going wrong, and a reccurring dream where I needed to go to the church but one drama after another kept stopping me.

Cat says she was keen to make sure everything was thoroughly planned and set up so that the day would run smoothly. The stress was heightened by a recent addition to the family.

‘I also had a newborn baby while organising the wedding, so I desperately needed sleep all the time,’ she explains. Starting a fitness routine proved to be a positive step. An exercise plan can help to ease the stress of wedding planning.

Exercise really helped with my baby blues, it was great for relieving depression. Most important to remember, for me, was that its not about the wedding, but about the marriage.’

Read the rest of the article : https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/30/i-had-months-of-anxiety-dreams-how-to-manage-insomnia-when-youre-planning-a-wedding-7587582/?ito=cbshare

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