Tag: fitness

The Essential Guide to Women’s Sleep

Supporting Healthy Sleep Practices for Wellbeing and Performance

by Dr Sarah Gilchrist

#TheEssentialGuidetoWomensSleep #NetGalley

Getting a good night’s sleep is so important and yet, there are times when this feels quite elusive. Many professionals have responded with guidance. What makes this book a bit different from some is that it is geared specifically toward women. It offers guidance over many stages of life from early on through menopause.

Readers may especially want to look at the sections on “Strategies for Good Sleep Health.” Chapter 10 also covers some interesting topics, as for example, one on different generations and screen time. The sections on one’s stage of life are also worth dipping into.

While this book seems to have been written for professionals, I think that the lay reader could also find it to be quite helpful.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for this title. All opinions are my own.

Pub date: 21 October 2025

Post published on 06 December 2025

Description:

from the publisher

Maintaining good sleep is a crucial yet often underrated pillar of a person’s wellbeing and general health. Despite this, there is limited guidance on how and why the various phases women experience in their lifetime may impact their quality of sleep, and what can be done to improve it.

This practical and accessible guide for health professionals introduces the concept of female sleep health across the lifetime, including key stages such as menstruation, fertility, working life, birth, perimenopause, and menopause. It also addresses sleep disorders, pain, and the impact poor sleep may have on mental health.

Readers will benefit from practical and detailed strategies on improving sleep, guidance on sleep aides and technology, and signposts to when clinical intervention is needed.

About the Author:

from Amazon

Sarah Gilchrist (BSc. MSc. DProf. FBASES) spent over 20 years working in the high-performance sport industry, latterly as a Technical Lead for the UK Sports Institute and Senior Physiologist with British Rowing. Her doctorate specialised in sleep and athletic performance, and she now provides consultancy on a range of performance areas, particularly relating to sleep. She is on the advisory committee of The Sleep Charity, a member of The British Sleep Society, previous Chair of the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES) Accreditation committee and is a High Performance Sport Accredited practitioner.

Pencils out:

Brain Teasers for Memory Fitness

90-Day Challenge to Strengthen Recall and Improve Cognitive Skills

by Julie Demyanovich

#BrainTeasersforMemoryFitness #NetGalley

From the publisher:

Improve your memory—and have fun!—with 90 days of brain teasers.

Forgot where you put your keys multiple times this week? Having difficulty remembering your to-do list? Boost your ability to recall details and strengthen your long-term memory with Brain Teasers for Memory Fitness, the ultimate 90-day mental challenge that increases in difficulty from easy to hard. With a variety of fun brain teasers, including trivia, word games, recall tests, sudoku, logic puzzles, and more, you’ll be amazed by the improvement you see in how you process and recall information. Get started on your journey to better memory fitness today!

  • Brain games focused on memory. Developed by a puzzle expert, these brain games are specifically designed to exercise and strengthen your memory functions.
  • 90 days of brain teasers, plus bonus puzzles. With puzzles that go from easy to hard, this challenge will help you develop a consistent mental exercise routine.
  • Variety of activities. Enjoy a mix of trivia, word puzzles, memory games, recall challenges, sudoku, mazes, crosswords, and logic puzzles.
  • The perfect gift for any age. Enlarged, clear print and quality paper make this an ideal gift for adults of all stages, including seniors.

Keep your good habit of daily brain exercise going with the other top-selling titles in the series: Sudoku for Brain Fitness, Crossword Puzzles for Brain Fitness, Logic Puzzles Book for Brain Fitness, and Word Search Puzzles for Brain Fitness.

My thoughts:

Whether you want to improve your memory or you just enjoy the challenges of puzzles, this title is worth a look. Graded from easy to hard, find the puzzles that you will most enjoy or do the challenge as it is intended by the author. Either way, there are fun activities in these pages.

I recommend reading the introduction. There is interesting information to be found there. Then start puzzling.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Zeitgist for this title. All opinions are my own.

Pub date: 18 November 2025