Week 8-9

• What strategies can you implement to improve someone’s sleeping habits

• Does limiting screen time help you sleep
• How does stress impact sleep
• What helps you relax your mind and body before sleep

We chose this topic because sleep effects lots of dimensions of health. These include Social, mental, emotional and physical. For this intervention to work, I will need to know all of the bad sleeping habits that this client has, her sleeping routine, how busy she is, how much screen time she has per day and how often she exercises daily. To make this intervention safe, meaningful and possible, we need to make sure that she is happy with the changes we make in her life because if she isn’t happy then the dimensions of health are still being effected. At this point in time I am confident that these strategies that we place on our client will help her get better sleep and improve all of the dimensions of health. By answering my sub questions I can get a better understanding of how to help the client. Does limiting screen time help you sleep? “Limiting overall daily screen time can help improve sleep issues, but most importantly, restricting use right before bed can play a key role in helping people fall asleep faster and improve sleep quality.” (Sleep foundation, 2020). “Cell phones, computers and TVs emit blue light. And exposure to that bluish light during the two hours before bed can keep us from getting a good night’s rest.” (Ashley Yeager, 2017). How does stress impact sleep? “Stress can impact your life in many ways, including negatively affecting the quality of your sleep. As a result, when you don’t sleep well, your body keeps pumping out those hormones The next day, you feel more stressed, the following night you find it harder to fall asleep, and so on.” (Sleep.org, 2020). What helps you relax your mind and body before sleep? “Shortly before bedtime, try a relaxation strategy that incorporates mindfulness, such as yoga, deep breathing, or meditation, all of which boost sleep time and quality.” (Sleep.org, 2020). Doing these things can relax your mind so you can feel sleepier and calmer.