Who needs coaching?

The first answer that pops into my head, is it’s ME. I need coaching!

It might sound a little odd but one of the reasons for cooking up The Sleep Lab is that all these years of learning to live with narcolepsy, I have been in training as a sleep coach – coaching myself.

Sleep has basically been a big mystery that I have had to untangle.

Together, me (coach Liesel) and me (the desperate-for-help-with-my-sleep Liesel) have been working out strategies for managing my sleep. I think I have been pretty lucky. I have had support and access to education/knowledge, which has meant I have been able to slowly build systems that have helped me operate. At one level this try everything out approach has been an incredible source of learning, as I have personal experience of what can work and what doesn’t. Over time, I have been test-using my own systems, tweaking them, trying different ways, and then integrating these systems into routines. My own lived experience has helped me build up a number of excellent sleep/energy monitoring and managing methods. So thank you, narcolepsy!

I also think if some of the sleep knowledge I have now had been available to me earlier, it would have freed up my (limited) energy for how I live my life and spend my time. In other words, I would have benefited from a real live sleep coach.

So, The Sleep Lab is my attempt to do some untangling, some boosting and a bit of pushing (when needed) for you!

I want to save you the effort and the energy of navigating a lack of information, feeling sleep deprived or full of sleepiness, and then attempting to make good decisions about life – by yourself. And to clarify in case you were thinking “but I don’t have narcolepsy”, sleep coaching is not just for people with a sleep condition like narcolepsy. I like to think sleep coaching is for anyone and everyone who is willing to commit to the process of transformation.

So the question is, are you ready to untangle, get curious about small changes, and transform your sleep? I’m ready, whenever you are.

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Liesel is a researcher and thinker with a love of coffee, and meaningful conversations. She has been testing ways to manage sleep since last century when diagnosed with narcolepsy.

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