Lauren Duffell

Lauren Duffell is a Certified Sleep Science Coach with a background in Holistic Nutrition and Yoga. These 3 areas offer a well-rounded approach to supporting sleep and daytime energy for her clients.

Nutrition

Sugar & Sleep: 5 ways they interact

Sugar and sleep have a multi-dimensional relationship that bears enough weight to have its own article. It affects our stress hormones, sex hormones, and inflammation which all relate to sleep.

Sleep 101

Your Circadian Clock

You can think of your circadian clock as the conductor of an orchestra, with the instruments being different types of bodily systems. Each part of the orchestra functions independently, but we feel best when they are in sync.

Sleep 101

Why do I have trouble sleeping?

These are changes to behavior or thought patterns that accidentally make the insomnia continue beyond the initial stressor— or the "glue" that keeps the poor sleep patterns together.

Protocol guides

Protocol: Consistent Sleep Window

Practicing a consistent "in bed" window is one of the most important behaviors that create better quality sleep. You can calculate your ideal "in-bed" window by...

Cognitive performance

Jet Lag: East vs West

Under normal circumstances, your circadian rhythm aligns with daylight, promoting alertness during the day and sleep at night. Your geographic location affects your rhythm since...

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Sleep tech

How to Interpret Your Wearable Data & Sleep Scores

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Getting started

How coaching can help improve your sleep

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Protocol guides

Protocol: Relaxation Response Meditation

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Protocol guides

Protocol: Worry Time Exercise

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Sleep 101

Protocol: Options to help Fall Asleep (or back asleep)

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Cognitive performance

How and why to dream journal

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Sleep health

Nighttime Urination

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Getting started

Sleep hygiene basics and myths

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Sleep 101

Sleep and thoughts: The truth revealed

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Getting started

Crescent's approach and the science of sleep improvement

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Sleep 101

Sleep and Stress

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Sleep 101

Insomnia as a survival response?

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Sleep 101

Introduction to Sleep