Good sleep: what it is and how to get it
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Not being able to drift off and waking up in the 3am worry zone, poor sleep is the bane of many women's lives (especially when you throw in a hot flush or two). Lorraine and Trish talk to sleep psychologist Kathryn Pinkham about what we need to do to break the cycle and get a good night's rest every night.
Plus: talking money with teens, the cool new way to get dressed and in praise of Keanu Reeves (and Richard Briars)
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my god Trish, what is that big furry thing there? |
| 0:03.6 | It's Margot. |
| 0:05.6 | She's very attracted to my computer screen for some reason. |
| 0:09.4 | She's not, she's just passively aggressive messing with your mind there trying to stop you doing stuff. |
| 0:14.8 | No, messing with your mind, I think you're fine. |
| 0:17.6 | Because you cats. She's just showing you her luxurious tail there and you're ignoring it. |
| 0:23.7 | Look at it. |
| 0:24.7 | Well I've got something to show you, Margot, I tell you. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello! |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to postcards from Midlife. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy and we're on a mission to tackle all the big and small issues that affect women at this stage of our life. From insomnia to mind and body wellness, HRT to sex drive, careers and relationships, and as always the challenges and joys of parenting |
| 0:55.5 | teams. In today's episode we'll be slaying the midlife sleep dragon so whether you |
| 1:00.1 | find yourself wide awake and fretting at 3 a.m. or just can't get to sleep in the first place, |
| 1:05.3 | sleep specialist Catherine Pinkham, founder of the Insomnia Clinic, is here to give us some much |
| 1:10.1 | needed answers. And if money is one of the things keeping you up at night, |
| 1:13.8 | we'll also be discussing how our attitude to finances can affect everything from our |
| 1:17.9 | relationships with our other halves to our friends and family. So what do we need to do |
| 1:22.4 | to ensure our children recognize the value of it |
| 1:24.7 | and go out of the moments |
| 1:39.8 | that have cemented for us that we are well and truly middle-aged whether we like it or not. |
| 1:45.9 | The rain you had a little bit of a wake-up call recently, didn't you? |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah, so I'm very uncomfortable with this because you know I veer towards the end of Madonna Jalo aging |
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