The Complete Guide to Sleep Care: Best Practices for a Restful and Happier You

by Kiki Ely

The Complete Guide to Sleep Care features 75 accessible methods to improve your sleep that will make you feel refreshed and ready to face the world.

Scientific studies have shown that getting good sleep improves every area of our lives, giving us more energy, increased cognitive function, and better moods all day long. This book will help you understand the importance of sleep, overcome stressful experiences, conquer negative emotions, develop positive thinking, and cultivate a healthy lifestyle.

Learning about insomnia, including common types and primary causes, will help you zero in on the areas in your life that need work, and a daily sleep log will help you discover your sleep patterns and troubleshoot your sleep issues.

To foster better sleep hygiene, the 75 effective, field-tested strategies include:

• eating better by avoiding caffeine after lunch and by chomping on cherries, which contain the sleep hormone melatonin
• avoiding nighttime workouts
• sticking to a consistent bedtime routine even on weekends
• keeping your bed or bedroom cool, which signals your body to slow down
• mindful meditation to lower your blood pressure and decrease your stress hormones
• setting a bedtime alarm
• banishing screens in bed (no TV, laptop, tablet, or smartphone)
and more

These simple, achievable life hacks will help you create regular, restful self-care, and you’ll get out of bed feeling your best in no time.

Genres: Self Help

168 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2022

About the author

Kiki Ely is a former attorney and event designer who made the conscious decision to pursue a life that was more fulfilling, connected, and authentic. Kiki is a self-care, mindset, and beauty curator, influencer, blogger, and author. She speaks at conventions, retreats, workshops, and on podcasts. In addition to this, she coaches individuals and businesses seeking more alignment, balance, and truth in their day to day operations. Kiki believes that everyone deserves to live a life that is a full expression of who they truly are.

Reviews

[Lafourche Parish Library · Rating 4 out of 5]

If your New Year’s resolution is to improve your quality of life, Kiki Ely’s book, Complete Guide to Sleep Care: Best Practices for a Restful and Happier You can give you tools on how to improve your quality of sleep. Ely boldly states that you cannot truly improve your quality of life until you lay a foundation of healthy sleep habits.

Her book features 75 methods to improve your quality of sleep. She gives an easy-to-understand break down of the sleep cycle (which doesn’t always occur sequentially), and explains how sleep—or lack thereof—can completely throw off your healthy lifestyle. Sleep affects everything—your mood, appetite, memory, ability to focus, weight, and overall sense of well-being. Although this may seem like common knowledge, Ely’s explanation of how critical sleep is to a healthy and happy life is quite eye-opening.

In each chapter, Ely offers several easy to follow solutions to common sleep issues, along with exercises to help you create a positive sleep experience. The exercises aren’t difficult to incorporate into your routine either; it’s mostly little changes that will make a big impact on your quality of sleep, leading to a happier and healthier you.

One of my favorite aspects of Complete Guide to Sleep Care: Best Practices for a Restful and Happier You is the Sleep Sanctuary chapter. Ely explains how to create the perfect setting for optimal sleep. She highlights the need for the perfect pillow and bed for each type of sleeper, as well as how different fabrics and colors can influence your quality of sleep. In addition, she recommends adorning your sleep sanctuary with houseplants that eliminate toxins from your room and create a healthier environment for sleep.

Another helpful part of the book is the Taming Anxiety portion. For many adults, the second they try to sleep, intrusive thoughts rush to the fore-front of their mind. To combat this, Ely recommends confronting your anxiety a few hours before bedtime by creating a table consisting of what a you’re worried about column and a best possible scenario column. You will have to have an internal discussion with yourself, but it can help you gain objectivity and insight into the problems taking up real estate in your mind before bed.

If you’re looking for an easy to follow self-help book, Kiki Ely’s book, Complete Guide to Sleep Care: Best Practices for a Restful and Happier You is definitely worth checking out.

- Katie, Reference Librarian

[Justine Harrisson · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️
Je suis vraiment mitigée par rapport à ce livre. J’ai vraiment trouvé que ça donnait des bons trucs pour améliorer son sommeil et tout ce qui tourne autour. J’ai aimé comment c’était large et que ça ne se limitait pas juste au sommeil en tant que tel, mais aussi à sa routine du matin, à comment optimiser sa chambre pour avoir un meilleur sommeil etc… J’ai aussi aimé l’ambivalence entre les faits basés sur la science, mais en intégrant aussi de la spiritualité! Ce que je n’ai pas aimé c’est que j’ai l’impression que chaque solution offerte était = achètes toi une nouvelle chose et tu n’auras plus ce problème, exemple: achètes toi un nouveau matelas, achètes toi un nouveau savon pour le corps, etc.

Aussi, pour je ne sais pas quelle raison, à peu près au 3/4 du livre, il a commencé à avoir beaucoup de fautes de frappe et ça m’a vraiment gossé.

[mossygreentea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very informative when it came to how the human body reacts to certain things like color, sound, and temperature. I do feel like not all of this was based on science.

[Ashley de Vaal · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had some good insights on all the different elements that contribute to a good sleep schedule. I deffinately picket up some new skills that I will continue to use and can fall back on in case my schedule is disrupted.