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💤 Helping the world sleep better 📚 Best selling author 😴 International speaker 📰 TV Radio 🛌 Navigating Sleeplessness 👩🏼‍⚕️ CBT-i Sleep Therapy

Dr Lindsay Browning runs trouble sleeping offering 1-to-1 sleep therapy, corporate webinars and wellbeing retreats. She is also the author of Navigating Sleeplessness

31/12/2025

5 of my biggest sleep successes of 2025

As the year draws to a close, it feels like a great moment to reflect on some of the work that I’ve been most proud of this year.

From helping people reduce and come off long-term sleeping tablets (always alongside their GP), supporting people signed off work with insomnia to return with confidence, and resetting circadian rhythms that had drifted completely off course (sleeping all day and missing work and Uni life), it has been a meaningful and rewarding year.

2025 also included media appearances talking about all things sleep, and running an amazing sleep and wellbeing retreat in the Alps, as well as working with schools and companies to offer sleep sessions.

If poor sleep has been running your life, affecting your health, work, or confidence, change is possible with the right approach.

If 2026 is the year you want to take back control of your sleep, message us to learn how we can help.

Find out more via the link in my bio.

25/12/2025

Happy Christmas!

I hope that you had a wonderful day. I spent a joyous day with my family (17 for dinner). We had great food, drinks and plenty of laughter and games!

I know that not all Christmases can be wonderful, especially for those who are going through a loss or another difficult time, so I’m especially grateful for today.

The time between Christmas and New Year is often when I get the most new enquiries as people decide now is the time to sort their poor sleep - so I am enjoying the calm before the storm! I will be ready to help everyone after this wonderful Christmas break!

With love,

Lindsay

27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

I will be making a full Thanksgiving meal (turkey, green bean casserole, sweet potato mash with marshmallows, cornbread and pumpkin pie) on Saturday. I can’t do it today because in the UK today isn’t a holiday!

This year I am SO thankful for the opportunity to help so many people with their sleep. I truly love my job and that I’m able to work with people to improve their lives through better sleep. I’m also hugely grateful for my health, my family and my friends 💕💕💕

The photo is a previous pumpkin pie I have made, and hopefully this year will be just as successful!

26/11/2025

This December I’m delighted to be joining the Q&A panel for Gather, a new community created by Susie .interiordesign for those who share a love of design, creativity, and wellbeing.

Gather’s events follow the rhythm of the seasons, and this winter I’ll be joining the conversation alongside Sally and Lilly where we’ll be exploring why home (and a peaceful, welcoming bedroom!) is the missing piece of wellbeing, sharing ideas, insights, and gentle inspiration.

The event at promises to be fantastic with good food and drink and inspiring chat. Plus it’s a great way to start the magic of the Christmas season this December!

20/11/2025

Have you ever wondered why your mind suddenly feels foggy or fuzzy, even after what should have been a decent night’s sleep?

On BBC West Midlands Radio, I chatted with Ed about what brain fog actually is, why it happens, and why it can feel so frustrating when you’re trying to think clearly.

We talked about how sleep supports the brain’s overnight “cleaning system”, how hormones and vitamin deficiencies can make brain fog worse, and when it’s worth taking those symptoms seriously.

If you’ve been waking up groggy, losing your train of thought, or finding it hard to concentrate, this conversation helps explain what’s going on and what you can do to feel clearer and more focused.

Your brain really has a lot happening behind the scenes, and understanding it is the first step to feeling more like yourself again.

If you’d like to hear the full interview, listen on BBC sounds, or else comment “FOG” below or send me a quick DM and I will send you the link.

14/11/2025

Many people worry about waking up in the night and think that it’s a sign of poor quality sleep. Otten, people think that the fact they’ve woken up and realise they’ve woken up means that their sleep has gone from a solid night’s sleep to a fragmented night’s sleep. And they think this means it’s not good enough sleep.

Well, the reality is that everyone sleeps in a thing called “sleep cycles” which means approximately every hour and a half or so through the night everybody briefly wakes up or is aware of their surroundings before going back into a deeper sleep again. As long as you get back to sleep again relatively quickly and you’re not waking up many times during the night, this is really normal. Especially as we age, or go through the menopause, we are likely to become more aware that we wake up once or twice in the night. Also, we are more likely to be aware of waking during the night if we are going through a stresstul or anxious time.

When we are younger, these awakenings are often so short and brief that we don’t even realise that we have woken up, although we did. Then, when we experience them later in life, we think it’s a new phenomenon.

If you are really worried about your sleep because you’re trying to have an unbroken night’s sleep, please stop trying to have a sleep that is unrealistic. If you wake up and realise you’ve woken up in the night just tell yourself this is normal and simply relax and calmly go back to sleep again, safe in the knowledge that you will still have had a great night’s sleep.

07/11/2025

I’ve just finished filming with for . It is due to air January next year, so watch this space.

We had a really great discussion about what is insomnia, what causes it, and how you can treat it. We also talked about sleep trackers and how they can be helpful if you want to pay a little bit more attention to how you are sleeping, but how they can also cause additional stress about sleep, leading to orthosomnia.

Thank you to everyone who helped me pick my outfit and gave me advice from my previous post. I really appreciate it!

Can’t wait to see the final piece when it airs in January.

04/11/2025

I’m filming with the BBC’s The One Show about insomnia and how CBT-I can help. I would love to have some help choosing what to wear!

Please comment which outfit I should choose? 1, 2, 3 or 4

1) Blue sleeveless dress with cream wedge heel sandals
2) Black jumpsuit with very high black heels
3) Black and white leaf print shirt dress with cream shoes
4) Grey suit dress with tweed shoes

Please let me know which I should wear. Thanks!!!

30/10/2025

Yesterday in Nature Neuroscience a new study from MIT was published that looked at why we sometimes experience brain fog after a bad night sleep.

The researchers sleep deprived 26 participants and found that when they were asked to do tasks, and became distracted or slow to react, that their brain activity looked momentarily surprisingly similar to being asleep.

Although this is a very small study and we can’t draw a huge conclusions from it, it does suggest an interesting thought that if we don’t get enough sleep at night our brain might be trying to have micro sleeps during the day to get some of the benefit we missed out on at night - causing brain fog.

I will be talking to today for the World At One show about this interesting study and what it might mean for people who don’t get enough sleep.

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Sleep advice from the experts

People of all ages with sleeping problems have been helped by Dr Browning at Trouble Sleeping, ranging from infants through to retirees. She offers a scientifically based assessment of your sleeping issues with recommended changes to help you overcome your sleeping problems.

How can Sleep Consultancy help you?

When you have trouble falling or staying asleep it can be extremely distressing. Plus, insomnia is also associated with anxiety, depression and obesity. Sleep consultancy helps children and adults improve their sleep, using scientifically based behavioural and cognitive changes.

What can I expect?

Following an introductory telephone call, a detailed history of your sleep will be taken and you will be asked to complete a daily sleep diary. This information will then be reviewed and analysed by Dr Browning prior to the 1-to-1 consultation.

During the 50 minute 1-to-1 consultation, Dr Browning will walk you through a series of recommendations based on your specific sleep issues that include behavioural and cognitive changes to help you to improve your sleep. You will also receive a copy of this personalised plan and post-consultation email support. Further sessions, where required, can also be given.

What can sleep consultancy treat?

Infant, child and adult sleeping issues

Difficulty falling asleep

Difficulty staying asleep

Waking too early and being unable to get back to sleep

Waking and feeling unrefreshed

Dr Lindsay Browning BSc MSc DPhil (Oxon) CPsychol AFBPsS

Dr Lindsay Browning is a neuroscientist and sleep psychologist. She has a doctorate (DPhil) from the University of Oxford where she investigated the relationship between worry and insomnia. She also has an MSc. in Neuroscience and a First Class BSc. in Psychology.

When Dr Browning received her doctorate she realised that there was a desperate need for help for people suffering from insomnia. The sleep consultancy advice offered by Dr Lindsay Browning is based on her expertise in sleep. She is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society https://www.bps.org.uk, a member of the British Sleep Society and a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr Browning is a qualified and respected professional in the field and started helping people overcome their sleeping problems in 2006 with her practice Trouble Sleeping www.troublesleeping.co.uk

She currently lives in Berkshire with her husband and two children. Previously, she has lived in Singapore and America where she taught anatomy and physiology at an American university.

If you would like to book an appointment, please email info@troublesleeping.co.uk or call 0118 9010544.