Over the past decade, I’ve stopped talking about sleep. My children have been through times when they’ve woken multiple times in the night, and others when they struggle to fall asleep in the first place. So when other people talk about how tired they are, I’ve learned to say nothing – afraid that if I start complaining, I’ll never stop.
Even when all my children – now aged nine, seven and three – choose the same night to sleep well, my own whirring mind wakes me between 2am and 4am.
I’m grieving for my mum, who died in January, and know how grief disrupts my sleep. When my dad died 15 years ago, my mind whirred so much that I ended up doing a yoga teacher training course, which I loved, in a bid to calm my thoughts. I also had surgery recently that took me from peri-menopause into menopause: if ever there was a time for insomnia, it is now.
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So when I was introduced to Mama Shrooms functional mushrooms for sleep, I wasn’t expecting dramatic results – they didn’t require wholesale lifestyle change.
