Join me and my special guest, sleep expert and insomnia specialist Dr Kat Lederle, for an insightful discussion on how sleep impacts our mood and performance as highly sensitive leaders and professionals. We focus specifically on how we relate to sleep as highly sensitives and its key “recharge” role in our physical, mental and emotional experience as we go through our day.
Kat shares her passion and expertise as we explore how sleep calms and rebalances our nervous system and brain activity. She teaches us how sleep influences our mood and performance during the day, which is especially true for highly sensitive people.
We also discuss the quality of our sleep and explore potential sleep challenges for people with a busy mind. We highly sensitive leaders experience our life and career in an intense way and might wake up in the middle of the night. Kat explains where these challenges are coming from and shares invaluable strategies to deal with them.
Please review the show notes below to read invaluable blog articles written by Kat, to read more about her programmes, watch her videos or simply get in touch with her to start a conversation.
Recent research (in zebra fish) on how brain intensity during the day can affect subsequent sleep: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/sep/brain-activity-intensity-drives-need-sleepKat’s blog article on leaders, decision-making, moral awareness and sleep: https://somnia.org.uk/good-leaders-sleep-well/Kat’s video on how to recover during the day: https://somnia.org.uk/journal/Kat’s blog how to respond to waking up at 3am: https://somnia.org.uk/what-to-do-when-you-frequently-wake-up-at-3am-and-struggle-to-get-back-to-sleep/Kat’s book Sleep Sense https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/health-wellbeing/sleep-sense-improve-your-sleep,katharina-lederle-9781925820935Kat’s sleep programmes https://somnia.org.uk/offer/sleep-programmes/circadian-clock-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work/Kat’s website www.somnia.org.uk and Instagram @somniasleepwell