Christine Hansen

Why are dreams so important for our daily lives?  What happens during that time in our sleep that makes it necessary for us to dream in order to live a healthy life?

Focus and sleep, how are they linked together? What happens with your stress levels, your lifestyle, your workplace? 'How not sleeping affects your focus' talks of the immediate impact sleep has on your focus.

Why bother with a bedtime routine explains why creating an automatism that helps to transition to sleep is so important.

"What does an adult sleep coach do?", portrays the different sleep coach services that are out there and focuses on the Sleep like a Boss technique that is like no other!  Have a listen and get in touch if you are interested in learning more about it. 

Anti-aging, Anti-weight gain, Makes you smarter, Helps you with your stress levels and improves your mood. Those are 5 reasons why we love sleep. Tune and learn more about them.

In "What is sleep anxiety?" I talk about the chronic anxiety of going to bed and not being able to fall asleep. Just the thought of having sleep issues makes my clients cringe! Listen to this new episode and find out about a very effective technique I suggest my clients do.

In this episode of Sleep like a Boss, I discuss the different reasons when somebody should go to a sleep clinic to check out their sleep.

Can better sleep lower your stress levels 2019? Yes, it can! Find out more in this episode on how sleep impacts you and your stress psychologically and physiologically.

We are all guilty of holding on to our pillows for way too long....!  In "How important is your pillow for sleep 2019", I will tell you how long you should keep your pillows and what type might be right for you.

Lifestyle & Sleep When you work with me, you quickly find out that I go beyond lifestyle to find the root problem of your sleep issues. At Sleep like a Boss, we run lab tests by looking at your body, your hormones, food sensitivities, hair mineral test analysis and run a gut health to find out what is hindering you from getting your proper sleep. But even with all of those tests, lifestyle is still where it’s all at. In today’s episode I talk about the different categories (Nutrition, Rest, Exercise, Stress Management and Supplements) that we can attribute to our lifestyles than can contribute to sleep issues.

Can sleep kill you? Or better yet, can I die if I don't sleep enough? These are really warranted questions for multiple kinds of reasons. One is that a lot of people become very anxious when they don't sleep enough and another is that it's a curiosity in terms of physical manner. Find out more in this episode of Sleep like a Boss

Sleep has been very often connected to a decrease in mental health, especially if you have a tendency towards a mental health condition and a lack of sleep is very likely to trigger it and give you that bit of a push to go over the edge.  Listen in to this episode to learn more

Did you know that people who suffer from sleep deprivation or not getting enough sleep are a lot more likely to suffer from a stroke or from a heart attack.   Sleep and heart attacks is a topic that has been talked about a lot in the media, and so I just want to break it down a little bit.  

What is sleep hygiene?  For someone like me who works in the field of sleep this is a no-brainer question. But when I give interviews or when I talk to people and I say, “look, I don't just work with sleep hygiene, a lot of my clients have a perfect sleep hygiene but their problems go beyond that”, I realize that many don’t know what I'm talking about when I mention sleep hygiene. So today I want to give a couple of sleep hygiene examples. #sleeplikeaboss #christinehansen #sleephygiene #sleeptips #sleepcoache  

Sleep trackers are designed in so many different ways. You have FitBit, you have head bands, you have things that you can put under your mattress, you have the Oura Ring... There are so many different ways of doing this, which is in itself an issue (!), because everyone claims to have found the one way of measuring how you sleep.  In the end, the most accurate way of actually measuring your sleep is by really looking at your brainwaves and seeing how they are reacting, because every sleep phase has a different pattern, and even each phase has a different pattern in each sleep cycle.  Find out more in today's episode

What is sleep apnea? Sleep apnea is when your breathing sets out and your body needs to jolt you in a way for you to wake up and continue breathing. A lot of the time we think that sleep apnea is just for people who are snoring really loudly. And it can be.  It has been shown that people who are overweight or have short necks, a little bit wider necks and who snore tend to also have sleep apnea.  Learn more about sleep apnea and what you should look out for.

"So when I take sleep medication, do I get the same quality of sleep as if I sleep naturally?" And here's the answer: “No, you don't.” Sleep medication basically sedates certain parts of your brain. A lot of it has to do with histamines and different hormones and all of those have different reactions when we sleep in each of our different sleep phases.  Find out more in this episode

 “Can sleep issues cause weight gain?” and the very simple answer is YES! There are different reasons why this can happen; one of them is that sleep is there to balance your hormones. During the day, depending on your stress levels and just your regular life, your hormones are a little bit out of balance or a lot, depending on what stage of life you are at and your circumstances.  Sleep is basically like a little plumber who goes around at nighttime and looks at the valves. It re-regulates everything so that it flows nicely. Now, there are mainly two hormones that we're going to look at today and those are leptin and ghrelin and both are responsible for your hunger. They basically control how hungry you are and when.  

Has it happened to you that you do or say something, and you don’t remember any of it?  Sleep and memory are very closely intertwined. Sleep deprivation, not getting enough sleep, has a severe impact on long-term memory as well.   Find out more in today's episode.