About this episode
This week’s guest was suggested by many of you. And now after speaking with her, I know why. She is awesome. Lyndsey Hookway is paediatric nurse, children’s public health nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Holistic Sleep Coach, Ph.D. candidate, and birth trauma recovery practitioner. She is the author of three books: Holistic Sleep Coaching, Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep, and her latest book called Still Awake. She is also co-founder of the Holistic Sleep Coaching programme. This is a really powerful episode about trusting ourselves in all areas of parenting but particularly sleep. We also talk about how hard that can be when we are exhausted or bombarded with conflicting information about how to get more sleep for both ourselves and our children no matter what age they are. We chat about: How to stop stressing about sleep Why there aren't any techniques that work for everyone The danger of the new sleep industry The big sleep myths How to find your instinct even when you are so tired Her own powerful journey with sleep What to do if you can’t sleep even though you have the opportunity to The importance of self-belief Once you hear it, I think you are going to want to share it with so many of your mum-friends. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources mentioned in this episode: Instagram: @lyndsey_hookway Facebook: @LyndseyHookway Website: https://lyndseyhookway.com/ Holistic Sleep Coaching - available on Amazon and direct from the publisher PraeclarusPress. Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep - now available on Amazon and from Pinter & Martin. Still Awake - now available on Amazon and from Pinter & Martin. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. GROUP COACHING GROUP COACHING EXPERIENCE - Reconnect to you: the reboot. It’s a powerful 30-day programme to help you feel like you again. The next group begins in November. Curious? Find out more. About Lyndsey Hookway Lyndsey is an experienced paediatric nurse, children’s public health nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Holistic Sleep Coach, Ph.D. candidate, and birth trauma recovery practitioner. She has worked in hospitals, clinics, the community and within clients’ homes for 20 years, serving within the UK NHS, in private practice and voluntarily. Lyndsey is a respected international speaker and teacher, and she regularly speaks out against the dominant sleep training culture, as well as advocating for the rights of families to receive high-quality, compassionate and expert lactation and respectful, responsive parenting support. She is the author of Holistic Sleep Coaching (2018), Let’s talk about your new family’s sleep (2020), and Still Awake (2021) and is currently working on three more books that will be published in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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