In midlife, as we navigate the transition from perimenopause to post-menopause, shifting sleep patterns can make real restorative sleep feel out of reach. Hormones shift, temperature regulation becomes less reliable and the nervous system often stays switched on long after the lights are turned off.
Maybe you used to fall asleep without issue. Now there are night sweats, racing thoughts, waking at the same hour every night and the long grey drift until dawn – followed by another endless day fuelled by coffee and cravings.
Reclaim Your Rest was written for women in midlife. It’s a guide for you to buy and download that explains what is happening to your sleep specifically in peri-to-post menopause and gives you practical, evidence-based ways to work with, one day at a time, over the course of seven days. For the price of a take out coffee each day that week.
What happens over the seven days
Each chapter takes a few minutes to read and ends with a plan of action to try that evening. Nothing is asked of you that won’t fit into an ordinary week.
Chapter 1: Understanding Menopausal Sleep
What sleep actually is, how its stages work and why midlife hormones disrupt them. Understanding the mechanics takes some of the fear out of a bad night.
Chapter 2: Creating Your Perfect Sleep Sanctuary
Light, temperature, bedding and the bedroom itself, with particular attention to the overheating that wakes so many women in the small hours.
Chapter 3: The Power of Routine
How a consistent rhythm through the day, not just at bedtime, helps reset the body clock.
Chapter 4: Taming the Mind
For the 3am thinking. Ways to settle a busy mind and an alert nervous system, drawn from my twenty years of teaching yoga and breath practice.
Chapter 5: Fuelling Rest
What you eat and drink, and when, and how it affects the night ahead.
Chapter 6: Move Your Body, Rest Your Mind
The kind of movement that supports sleep in midlife, and the timing that matters.
Chapter 7: Building Sustainable Sleep Habits
Bringing the week together into a plan that is yours, so the progress doesn’t fade once the seven days are over.
What’s included
- The Reclaim Your Rest guide, a beautifully designed 48-page PDF to read on screen or print
- Seven Daily Actions, small and specific, so you finish each chapter knowing what to do that evening
- A Monthly Sleep Tracker to help you notice patterns over time rather than focussing on just last night
- This Gentle Space, a series of audio meditations to accompany the chapters
Who it’s for
Reclaim Your Rest is for women in peri-to-post menopause who want to understand their sleep and arm themselves with practical tools to help. You don’t need any experience of yoga or meditation. You need a week, a little curiosity and a willingness to try things for yourself.
It isn’t a cure, and it won’t replace a conversation with your GP if you’re really struggling hormonally or there’s an underlying medical or mental health condition. What it offers is understanding and a set of tools for a steadier relationship with the night.
What other women have said
“Like many women my age, I was waking at 3am with a busy mind and struggling to get back to sleep. This guide offers gentle tools such as short, informative reads and calming meditations. It helped me pick new sleep strategies that worked best for me and I’m sure it bought me more restful nights.”
“Highly recommended! If you’re a midlife women who’s been missing real, restorative sleep, this course is definitely worth a try.”
“I loved this guide! So helpful to have the science and practical tips all in one place in an easy to digest format. It’s well written, easy to read – and Monika’s voice on the recordings is just what I need to relax.”
