Drowsy Sleep Guide

Menopause can wreak havoc on your sleep. Here are some tips to help.

Perimenopause (when your body starts the shift into menopause) and menopause (when you stop having periods) can mark some pretty big changes in a woman’s life, and body. It’s a natural transition t...

4 - 7 - 8 Breathwork practice for calm and sleep

Breathe deeply with Anna Sillanpää  Breathwork teacher, Anna Sillanpää, knows first-hand how a breathwork practice can transform your life. It saved her from a state of burnout and mental ill-healt...

Gut health and good sleep are more related than you think

The research has been mounting for years: our gut and our mind are intrinsically linked. And same goes for the connection between gut health and sleep quality, too. It has been proven that lack of ...

3 phase bedtime ritual for a good night's sleep

Calm your mind with the help of an expert “We have 60,000–70,000 thoughts running through our minds every single day, and 70–80% of those thoughts are negative.” This is why breathwork and nervous-...

Cotton Vs Silk: The Showdown

Cotton is a natural fabric that is most popular in the form of a classic tee. And maybe your favourite pyjamas. Silk is a different natural fabric – woven from the fibres of a silkworm, no less – t...

The best lighting for a sleepy scene

Lighting is so important. It can change our brain, alter a mood, set a scene. Light – in both its natural and artificial forms – also affects our sleep, for better or for worse. So here, we have th...

Four luxury stays you deserve to see

Extend the free-spirited summer vibes another couple of weeks. Distract yourself from the impending change of season. Recoup from all of the good times with a luxury break. Whatever your reason for...

Get the most out of your holiday glow

Just because the temperature is starting to drop and days are beginning to shorten… doesn’t mean your summer skin needs to wane with it. Keep the glow alive, and ride that summer skin high as long ...

Why daytime naps are your summer essential (and how to get them right)

Oh, Summer. When the days are brighter and longer, the nights more vibrant and social. When the festivals, beaches, holidays, road trips and picnics in the park feel endless. Make sure your body an...

The visionary skincare founder disrupting the beauty world

The Romilly Wilde ethos has always been to disrupt the norm. From the start, they wanted to create something unlike anything else on the market. Their products create an immediate sense of integrit...

Our top sleep tools for tracking your sleep

You try to do all the right things to enhance your sleep, and rest your body. Sleep masks and bedtime rituals included, of course. But how do you know that it’s working? We’ve rounded up our favour...

9 minute breathwork for better sleep

How to get the summer glow while you sleep

Sleep is a natural wonder. While we just lie there, our brains are taking stock of things, our muscles are working themselves right, and our skin is flushing the bad and plumping up the good. So w...

Understand your sleep

Drowsy Sleep Assessment Quiz Please read each question carefully and select the option that best describes your situation in the past month. This questionnaire will help you determine if you are ge...

The best kind of skin care is sleep

You know that look, when someone looks so radiant you can’t help but tell them they’re glowing? Their skin looks fresh, hydrated, plump. And most likely, the reason for that, is great sleep. Resea...

The Surprising Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Your Eye Area

When it comes to the beauty-sleep equation, science backs up the claim - good sleep equates to healthier skin. And guess what? It's even more critical when it comes to the delicate area around your...

How to wind down a busy brain

 You deserve glorious sleep. It’s that simple. Stress, overthinking, worries - the culprits that keep you awake, prevent peaceful sleep. And when waking up rested is the name of the game, it’s time...

Binaural Beats Playlist for Sleep

Meditating for sleep? Did you know that binaural beats use different frequencies in each ear to create a perceived tone. This can slow brain waves, promoting relaxation and sleepiness.Max out the e...

Meditation for sleep - 3 ways to destress and zone out fast

Stress and anxiety at bedtime is the worst. It could be the reason behind your poor sleep. But worry not. These quick fix meditations will wind down the busiest of minds. They’re easy to remember, ...

3 Reasons why you can’t sleep

We’re no strangers to the effect poor sleep has on our mood during the day. But what about when you go to sleep? Have you thought about how your state of mind from the day might affect how you sle...

5 Steps to Unleashing Your Natural Beauty

The Drowsy hierarchy of health is our inhouse pathway to unleash your natural beauty through a holistic wellness lifestyle, powered by sleep.   Sleep is the foundation of wellness and the first s...

The Language of Choice

How often are you saying the words: I shouldn't, I can't, and I have to? Probably every single day, multiple times a day. These words are things that really make you feel disempowered. There's a s...

How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs

Limiting beliefs. Have you ever thought about where they come from? They come from all over. They come from culture, they come from movies we watch, from voices we heard inside of our homes as a c...

Creating Your "To Be" List

Most of us have been conditioned to really value the future. We put an emphasis on how we spend our time: being productive, making sure we work really hard. We say things like time is money now, t...

How to Manifest the Live You Want to Live

At the beginning of a lot of manifestation journeys, people really focus on the things they don't want because it's easy to say, well, I don't want this and I don't want that. But it's a lot harde...

How to decode your sleep chronotype and increase productivity

Whether you are a morning person or night owl, discovering your body’s natural circadian rhythm personality or “sleep chronotype” could be key to unlocking optimum productivity, according to a lead...

Food for thought

The go-to foods to ensure a good night’s sleep and those to avoid Food and sleep. Besides air and water, they are the most essential things we humans need to live. But the two are not always happy ...

How to manage your sleep as a shift worker

As night falls and nocturnal animals start to slowly emerge there’s another, often forgotten, creature of the night heading out into the dark just as the rest of us begin our nightly wind-downs — t...

Meditation for time poor beginners

Here’s a little secret for ya — setting yourself up for a good night’s sleep doesn’t start the moment you get into bed. In fact, it starts with a sleep schedule and a good sleep environment as well...

5 dreamy places where you can sleep under the stars

As the clocks get ready to ‘spring’ forward and the nights begin to warm up there’s no better time to start planning a weekend experience of sleeping under the stars. And we’re not talking about sl...

Perimenopause and sleep: why your sleep suffers and what to do about it.

For women in their 40s and 50s, perimenopause (when your body starts to shift into menopause) and menopause (when you stop having periods) is a topic often discussed among friends.  Remember the ‘m...

5 REASONS WHY YOU’RE SWEATING BUCKETS!

If you’re waking up a lot damper than you’d like, then you're part of the 10% of people who regularly suffer from night sweats in the UK. Medically speaking, night sweats are severe episodes of exc...

BEAT THE DAILY (TOOTH) GRIND

So, ever heard of sleep bruxism?! Initially, neither did we but unbelievably it’s a seriously common night-time activity! If you’ve ever found yourself waking up with an aching jaw, or in need of a...

CAN PLANTS REALLY HELP YOU SLEEP?!

Have you ever taken time to think about how clean your air is? Did you know the air quality in your bedroom can genuinely affect how well you sleep?! To level with you, neither did we! Pets and smo...

Is lack of sleep thinning your hair?!

Whether or not you’ve noticed more hairs in your brush than normal or have recently pulled a ginormous fur-ball out of your shower drain (yuk!), hair loss is something many people experience. You’d...

The secret to the best skin of your life may just surprise you

Here at Drowsy you won’t be surprised to hear we’re (seriously) passionate about sleep. Why wouldn’t we be: it’s free and available tonight! We've heard it on repeat: getting enough sleep is THE fo...

Introducing Yoga’s (sleepy) little sister!

Here at Drowsy we’ve long known that pursuing a (ideally daily) yoga practice is one of the best ways you can help exercise your body and mind. Traditional yoga’s merits are almost too numerous to ...

How To Install Your ‘Back To School’ Sleep Schedule

Whether you’re embarking on a new schedule this autumn or simply need an excuse to reboot your less-than-regular sleep routine – we all know that maintaining a good routine takes work. Typically, o...

How often should you *actually* wash your sheets?!

So, let’s talk bed sheets. You’re in them for (hopefully) a good 8 hours in every 24-hour period where you sweat, dribble, and do other activities yet it seems to be a weirdly grey area as to how o...

Crystals & Sleep. What’s the link?!

So today on the Sleep Lab we’re investigating something that’s shot up in popularity since the recent pandemic – that’s right, crystals… Whether you believe in their powers for healing, restoration...

Three UK Destinations You Need To Visit This Summer

The (sometimes) great British summer has well and truly arrived and not even changing news on international travel is getting us down. Ok… perhaps a little bit but with all the uncertainty we thoug...

Sending out a summer sleep S.O.S?

Oh, hey there summer! Warm weather and more daylight are often what most of us have been dreaming of all winter long, but it can have its downside. Don’t get us wrong, we love the warm summer weath...

How to beat W.F.H lethargy after over a year of working from home…

A great many of us have been working from home for at least a year now and let’s be honest it’s been one hell of a learning curve. Being in and out of various lockdowns has been exhausting and navi...

Bad nights sleep? Blame the full moon!

Okay, hear me out. I bet my summer spa break in the Maldives that you’ve been feeling more ‘Drowsy’ than usual, right? -And no, I’m not psychic… though that would be very handy! Well, let me tell y...