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The Well-Rested Woman: 60 Soothing Suggestions for Getting a Good Night's Sleep
Written by former insomniac and longtime journalist Janet Kinosian, who cured herself by using these methods, The Well-Rested Woman offers sixty inventive ways to help any woman get a good night's sleep. Change your sleep by incorporating better habits into your daily life, such Filled with inspiring quotes and lists of sleep-promoting herbs and vitamins, The Well-Rested Woman is every woman's ultimate companion to a lifetime of rejuvenating, restful good nights.
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268 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2002
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June 11, 2023
Ideas that don't just look outward, but also inward, asking you to be mindful of environment and self. While I'm not on board with quite all the suggestions presented here, the concepts behind them certainly gave me pause to consider my own small changes I could implement.
September 1, 2011
She has some great suggestions if you are having trouble sleeping and the chapters are short and concise.
June 21, 2022
Great book. I border on either getting a good night sleep or not, so this book was useful in showing me why some nights I don't sleep well.
February 19, 2013
Are you a woman who suffers from insomnia? If so, The Well-Rested Woman is A GREAT
book! Even if you don't suffer from insomnia, the 60 soothing suggestions are excellent
for improving the quality of your sleep.
Janet Kinosian's book contains a delightful blend of science and soul to aid you in your quest
for a better night's sleep. "I often wonder why time is so of the essence in bedrooms -- or rather
knowing what time it is." from p. 40 of The Well-Rested Woman ~ Suggestion #4 BAN THE
CLOCK.
The author herself has suffered with insomnia and has spent many years researching the subject.
Sleep disorders are a vague realm that aren't researched and studied nearly enough to
be effectively treated by modern medicine. This may be due to the fact that, often, insomnia
is merely a symptom of another illness, such as clinical depression, asthma, heart disease, or
diabetes. Therefore, most doctors will give you a sleeping pill rather than diagnosing your
particular sleep disorder, of which, according to the author, there are about seventy five. Modern
medicine has a pill for everything, or so it seems. Although pills are sometimes necessary; they
aren't the solution to every health issue. On the other hand, the nature of Kinosian's 60 suggestions are *holistic - Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts. Her soothing suggestions encourage us to slow down a bit and look within rather than just take another pill. Which is exactly why I LOVE this book! I too have suffered with insomnia. Reading The Well-Rested Woman and following just a few of the suggestions has strengthened my connection to what Judith Orloff (author of Positive Energy - another excellent book) calls "The sacred, restorative realm of sleep."
Often, when I suggest a self-help book such as this to people, women in particular,
they tell me they don't have time to read, much less to try any self-help techniques. It is exactly
these types of people that the quick fix methods (pills) of modern medicine appeal to the most.
However, if you are a woman who is willing to take some time for reading and self-discovery,
then this book is for you. Because she spent fifteen years thoroughly researching the subject of sleep; Kinsoan's writing is not only a pleasure to read, it is also extremely informative.
The 60 soothing suggestions in the book are actually holistic methods that provide long lasting improvements to your most precious and necessary moments of sleep. The methods provide long lasting results because not only do they treat the physiological aspects of women's sleep disorders, such as vitamin and mineral deficiencies, they also address and treat the spiritual and mental aspects of our lives, all of which either directly or indirectly affect the quality of our sleep.
If you'd love to learn more about sleep and how to strengthen the restorative power of your sleep,
you'll find this book indispensable.
"Be empty of worrying, think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so
wide open?" ~Rumi
Sleep well.
*holistic
book! Even if you don't suffer from insomnia, the 60 soothing suggestions are excellent
for improving the quality of your sleep.
Janet Kinosian's book contains a delightful blend of science and soul to aid you in your quest
for a better night's sleep. "I often wonder why time is so of the essence in bedrooms -- or rather
knowing what time it is." from p. 40 of The Well-Rested Woman ~ Suggestion #4 BAN THE
CLOCK.
The author herself has suffered with insomnia and has spent many years researching the subject.
Sleep disorders are a vague realm that aren't researched and studied nearly enough to
be effectively treated by modern medicine. This may be due to the fact that, often, insomnia
is merely a symptom of another illness, such as clinical depression, asthma, heart disease, or
diabetes. Therefore, most doctors will give you a sleeping pill rather than diagnosing your
particular sleep disorder, of which, according to the author, there are about seventy five. Modern
medicine has a pill for everything, or so it seems. Although pills are sometimes necessary; they
aren't the solution to every health issue. On the other hand, the nature of Kinosian's 60 suggestions are *holistic - Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts. Her soothing suggestions encourage us to slow down a bit and look within rather than just take another pill. Which is exactly why I LOVE this book! I too have suffered with insomnia. Reading The Well-Rested Woman and following just a few of the suggestions has strengthened my connection to what Judith Orloff (author of Positive Energy - another excellent book) calls "The sacred, restorative realm of sleep."
Often, when I suggest a self-help book such as this to people, women in particular,
they tell me they don't have time to read, much less to try any self-help techniques. It is exactly
these types of people that the quick fix methods (pills) of modern medicine appeal to the most.
However, if you are a woman who is willing to take some time for reading and self-discovery,
then this book is for you. Because she spent fifteen years thoroughly researching the subject of sleep; Kinsoan's writing is not only a pleasure to read, it is also extremely informative.
The 60 soothing suggestions in the book are actually holistic methods that provide long lasting improvements to your most precious and necessary moments of sleep. The methods provide long lasting results because not only do they treat the physiological aspects of women's sleep disorders, such as vitamin and mineral deficiencies, they also address and treat the spiritual and mental aspects of our lives, all of which either directly or indirectly affect the quality of our sleep.
If you'd love to learn more about sleep and how to strengthen the restorative power of your sleep,
you'll find this book indispensable.
"Be empty of worrying, think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so
wide open?" ~Rumi
Sleep well.
*holistic
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