For many of us sleep is the aspect of our lives that we clip, cut or do with out to fit in more exciting stuff. Sleep overs, better known as awake overs and all-nighters are cool in a way that sleep is not and they are stuff of legends! But is it really true that we can cut sleep and get away with it and what if it’s a struggle to get to sleep? In this talk I will explain why sleep matters to your physical and mental health, what is happening in your body and mind when you sleep and suggest some ideas and habits to build to improve the quality of your sleep and your children’s sleep.

Dr Christine Curle

Christine is a consultant clinical psychologist with more than 40 years experience as a practitioner psychologist, the last 30 years spent working in the NHS with children, young people and families and in clinical health education training others to become clinical psychologists. She has held a number of leadership roles in academia, health service delivery and at NHS regional level in the South West.

From many years of working out of hours on the crisis rota for a children and young people’s mental health service she became increasingly convinced of the role that sleep problems plays in poor mental health. Now working independently, she has been able to indulge her passion for good sleep by increasing her knowledge and skills in this important area and offers sleep assessments and interventions to children, young people and families in collaboration with Hunrosa, The Sleep Consultancy. www.hunrosa.co.uk