Nutrition
Sugar & Sleep: 5 ways they interact
Sugar and sleep have a multi-dimensional relationship that bears enough weight to have its own article. It affects our stress hormones, sex hormones, and inflammation which all relate to sleep.
Lauren Duffell
Lauren Duffell is a Certified Sleep Science Coach with a background in Holistic Nutrition and Yoga. These 3 areas offer a well-rounded approach to supporting sleep and daytime energy for her clients.
Sleep 101
Your Circadian Clock
You can think of your circadian clock as the conductor of an orchestra, with the instruments being different types of bodily systems. Each part of the orchestra functions independently, but we feel best when they are in sync.
Sleep 101
Why do I have trouble sleeping?
These are changes to behavior or thought patterns that accidentally make the insomnia continue beyond the initial stressor— or the "glue" that keeps the poor sleep patterns together.
Protocol guides
Protocol: Consistent Sleep Window
Practicing a consistent "in bed" window is one of the most important behaviors that create better quality sleep. You can calculate your ideal "in-bed" window by...
Cognitive performance
Jet Lag: East vs West
Under normal circumstances, your circadian rhythm aligns with daylight, promoting alertness during the day and sleep at night. Your geographic location affects your rhythm since...
Sleep tech
How to Interpret Your Wearable Data & Sleep Scores
In this quick-read article we will cover: sleep staging, sleep scores, which metrics to focus on for quality sleep, where wearables go wrong...
Getting started
How coaching can help improve your sleep
How working with a Crescent coach can help you up your sleep game.
Protocol guides
Protocol: Relaxation Response Meditation
A meditation that achieves a "Relaxation Response" is one that puts the body and nervous system at rest rather than in fight or flight. The Relaxation Response can actually be measured...
Protocol guides
Protocol: Worry Time Exercise
Reflecting for a moment, do you experience any negative thoughts aimed at your sleep? Or do you lay down to go to bed and feel as if your mind "turns on" ...
Sleep 101
Protocol: Options to help Fall Asleep (or back asleep)
Having trouble sleeping can mean having trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, or waking up too early in the morning. This means that having tools to use when you are trying to fall asleep (or back asleep) is very important.
Cognitive performance
How and why to dream journal
"When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another" ~ Salvador Dali
Sleep health
Nighttime Urination
Nighttime urination is not a sleep problem itself, however it can affect the quality of your sleep.