Women's Fitness

Rest & restore

When you’re wide awake in the middle of the night, surrounded only by your racing thoughts, it’s easy to believe the rest of the world is sound asleep. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the UK alone, 67 per cent of us struggle to get a good night’s sleep – in fact, busy mind aside, there are 90 distinct sleep disorders, according to the US Institute of Medicines – and insomnia doesn’t just affect your mental performance the next day;

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