The Workplace Sleep Coach

“Pure Gold”. 🤩🤩🤩

10/10 score when asked if they would recommend the Sleep through Perimenopause and Menopausal Years workshop.

Wow.

I sent out an anonymous feedback form to see how I could improve on the workshop, and so far, there has been no suggestions to improve it, just incredible feedback.

One of the questions I asked was - ‘Is there anything you will do differently following this workshop?’

I saw this response this morning when seeing if anyone else had filled in the feedback form;

“Yes, there were a number of really good ideas to implement and the best thing is that they are simple and easy. You didn't give us hard, complex steps, you gave us simple, small changes that we can fit into already-busy lives. Amazing! This was an amazing workshop - simple, but rich in knowledge, but also easy to understand and easy to implement. Pure gold.”

It was such an amazing thing to wake up to.

The reason this feels so powerful to me is that all I see when people post in groups saying they can’t sleep due to perimenopause is suggestions of supplements.

Try x, try y.

That’s great and everything, but how does this person know they need to replace anything, and if so, what to replace.

Step 1 should always be understanding what is going on and making simple and practical changes that a) don’t cost money, and b) lead you to the right supplements if needed rather than throwing money into the air and hoping it lands on the right thing.

Step 2 should be then seeing what’s left to work with, then speaking to a healthcare professional to find out what supplements or hormone replacement treatments are needed to help improve sleep and overall wellbeing.

Women have been going through menopause since the beginning of time, but they didn’t have supplements back then, but, their life was different.

They didn’t lead the hectic and chaotic lives so many of us lead today.

They didn’t carry the mental weight so many women carry.

They didn’t have access to so much processed food, and sleep wasn’t sacrificed to fit more into the day like it is today.

So, let’s start with Step 1, then see what’s left.

I also plan to be checking in with you all at 2 weeks and 4 weeks after you have watched the workshop to see how you are getting on.

If you would like to know more about how to access this workshop, comment SLEEP below and I’ll send you the details.

Welcome to The Learning Hub.

Whether you are looking to get some basic understanding of sleep, or whether you are living life at 3am with a wide awake brain and a bladder that’s decided to hold enough wee to carry a thimble of fluid, or a parent trying to work out if you will ever sleep again.

The Learning Hub has got you covered.

What’s more is that you aren’t just going to be left alone.

We want to understand your journey, your struggles and your understanding of sleep.

We want you to finish the workshop feeling like you have strategies that you can implement to help improve your sleep and overall wellbeing.

We want you to create your Stop, Start and Continue and be able to follow through with what you believe you can achieve.

We will check in with you 2 weeks down the line, and then at the 4 week point we would love to hear how you are getting on.

This is the start of something much bigger, because this journey will help us shape the future product and help us make major changes that truly make a difference to how society value sleep.

Please feel free to check out The Learning Hub, pick the workshop you need to help you start sleeping well again, and be part of a movement that will change and shape the future.

Check out the comments for the link to The Learning Hub.

25 women have completed my Sleep & Menopause questionnaire so far and, honestly, it's confirming exactly what I thought it would.

These aren't women who have given up.

Quite the opposite.

These are women who are still incredibly driven.

They're working.

Building businesses.

Raising children.

Supporting ageing parents.

Showing up for their families.

Showing up for work.

Showing up for everyone around them.

The ambition is still there.

The determination is still there.

The dreams are still there.

But one thing is becoming very clear.

Life is very full.

And perhaps that's the thing we don't talk about enough.

Perimenopause and menopause don't happen in isolation.

They often arrive at a stage of life when women are already juggling a lot.

Careers.
Family life.
Caring responsibilities.
Homes.
Relationships.

And all the hundreds of tiny invisible tasks that sit quietly in the background every day.

The more responses I read, the more one thing keeps standing out.

Women aren't lacking capability.

They're carrying a huge amount whilst still expecting themselves to function exactly as they always have.

Perhaps this isn't about fixing women at all.

Perhaps it's about understanding the realities of this stage of life and finding practical ways to support ourselves through it.

I'm still gathering responses and I'd genuinely love to hear from more women.

💜 Questionnaire: https://link.connectedcampaigns.co.uk/widget/form/xCRWZ7oA0pxOy7QdX7CB

We’re really excited to officially launch our new pre-recorded Employee Wellbeing Workshops.

This collaboration between myself and Sam Flynn Social Media was created for one simple reason:

We know not every business has the budget for large-scale wellbeing programmes, bespoke training packages or ongoing coaching support.

But that shouldn’t mean employees miss out on support altogether.

We also know that many businesses are interested in topics like sleep and digital wellbeing, but understandably want a more accessible way to test engagement and understand whether this type of support is right for their teams before investing further.

So we wanted to create something flexible, affordable and genuinely useful.

The workshops are pre-recorded, ready to download and can be shared internally with employees to watch around work and home life.

Current workshops available:

💤 Sleep & Wellbeing Workshop with Nicole Ratcliffe
A 35-minute session exploring:
• Why sleep is so important, yet so hard to achieve in modern life
• What actually happens when we sleep
• Signs and impact of poor sleep and chronic sleep deprivation
• Practical strategies to support better sleep

📱 Digital Wellbeing Workshop with Sam Flynn
A 25-minute session focused on:
• Digital overload and nervous system fatigue
• Boundaries with technology
• Reducing distraction
• Switching off in an increasingly connected world

Pricing:
• £300 individually
• £500 for both workshops

Businesses can keep the workshops long-term for internal employee use, and we can also add company branding and logos if requested.

This feels like such an important step in making wellbeing support more accessible for smaller businesses, growing teams and organisations wanting practical support without huge costs attached.

If you’d like more information, feel free to message me or Sam Flynn

Ten years ago today, my life changed forever.

Not in the way I had dreamed it would be, but in the most profound, life-altering way possible.

When Sofia was born, I thought I was ready. I had the birth plan, the books, I'd done the preparation and taken the 6 week antenatal course. I thought being maternal would carry me through anything.

What I hadn’t prepared for was trauma.
An emergency C-section.
Breastfeeding struggles.
Infections.
Chronic, relentless sleep deprivation.
Losing my career.
Nearly losing myself, and at times, nearly losing my marriage under the weight of it all.

There were moments I didn’t recognise the woman staring back at me.

But here’s the part that gets me emotional today.

If Sofia hadn’t come into my world exactly as she did,
If those struggles hadn’t unfolded the way they did,
I wouldn’t be doing the work I’m doing now.

She was the catalyst.

The reason I started asking questions.
The reason I refused to accept “this is just motherhood.”
The reason I began fighting for better support, better education, better conversations around sleep, parenting and maternal wellbeing.

Everything I’ve built,
Every family I’ve supported,
Every workplace I’ve spoken in,
Every culture shift I’m pushing for,
It all traces back to one tiny baby girl who turned my world upside down.

She won’t ever fully realise the ripple effect of her arrival. How one birth, one story, one experience set off a chain reaction that is still unfolding today.

But I know.

And today, as she turns 10, I feel nothing but pride.

Not just in the incredible, funny, kind, talented girl she is becoming,
But in the fact that her story, our story, is helping shape a better future for other mothers, other families, and one day, for her and her sister too.

Happy 10th Birthday, my beautiful Sofia.
You didn’t just make me a mum.
You gave me a mission.

I have just had a brilliant conversation with a new client this morning who has just booked my Enhanced Signature Sleep Reset for January, and after a bit of a deep dive into what their team really needs, we landed on a theme that couldn’t be more timely:

The January Blues.

January is hands down one of the hardest months for people.
The shorter days.
The financial squeeze after Christmas.
The disrupted routines.
The dip in motivation, mood and energy.
And of course, the impact all of this has on sleep.

And when sleep drops, everything else follows.

The CIPD’s latest 2025 Health & Wellbeing report shows that mental ill health is still the number one reason for long-term sickness absence, (41% to be precise) and the second highest reason for short-term absence, with 29% of all short-term absences linked to poor mental health.

So when a business proactively supports sleep and wellbeing in January, it isn’t a ‘nice-to-have’.
It’s smart.
It’s preventative.
It saves money.
And it helps people feel human again.

For this client, I am creating a bespoke January element to the Signature Sleep Reset:
✨ Why January feels so heavy
✨ How finances, stress and disrupted routines impact sleep
✨ What small, realistic steps help people reset their body clock
✨ Practical ways to lift mood, energy and motivation during the hardest month of the year
✨ Tools to improve emotional regulation, resilience and focus at work

This isn’t about New Year pressure.
It’s about supporting people back to themselves.

And because I want this support to reach as far as possible, any business that books a January Sleep Workshop in December can donate my pre-recorded “Parental Rage: Finding Calm in the Chaos” workshop (worth £600) to a charity of their choice.

It’s my way of helping your organisation make a positive impact beyond your own team at a time when families are really struggling.

If you’re a HR lead, wellbeing champion, people director, or you simply know your team needs a boost going into 2026, now is the time to get something in the diary.

January is coming.
Let’s make it a little easier for people.

Drop me a message to book your session.
(And yes, we can tailor the January element to your industry’s specific pressures.)

Sleep is a superpower, especially in the toughest month of the year.

Watching the Budget response yesterday, one thought (of many which I will share over the coming days) kept replaying in my mind:

If any manager behaved like that in a workplace, HR would have been dragged in within 30 seconds.

Mocking.
Shouting.
Performative outrage.
Coordinated jeering.
Talking over.
Belittling.
Voices raised purely to dominate.

(I mean, just look at the people in the photo, it’s sickening).

If two people did that in front of a team, it would be labelled:

😡 bullying
😡 misconduct
😡 harassment
😡 a safeguarding concern in some settings

And yet when it happens in Parliament, we shrug and say:

“Well, that’s politics.”

But should it be?

We talk endlessly about mental health, psychological safety, healthy workplaces, calm communication, trauma awareness, and then our national leaders model the opposite on live television.

It’s madness.

If we want respect, collaboration and emotional intelligence in workplaces, schools and society, it has to start at the top.

Leadership isn’t a pantomime.
And frankly, if Parliament were a business, half of yesterday’s behaviour would have been a disciplinary meeting.

I have quite a few thoughts from yesterday’s budget, so if you are interested, make sure you’re following me.

I can’t let this lie, and a conversation needs to happen as this is not the sort of behaviour we should be saying is acceptable.

What are we teaching our children?

I don’t care what party it is, this isn’t about the party, this type of behaviour is just unacceptable.

We’re heading into the time of year when families hit breaking point.

Christmas is magical for some, but for so many parents it’s a perfect storm of exhaustion, sensory overload, financial pressure, disrupted routines and sleepless nights.

And that’s where parental rage shows up.

Let’s stop pretending it isn’t real.

It is.
I’ve experienced it.

And I’ve seen it across every organisation I’ve worked with, parents who adore their children, but have absolutely nothing left in the tank.

And nobody talks about it.

So here’s what I’m doing for the rest of 2025:

Any business that books a Sleep Talk or Workshop with me throughout the remainder of 2025 will have the pre-recorded workshop “Parental Rage: Finding Calm in the Chaos” donated to a charity of THEIR choice.

No strings.
No hidden costs.
Just genuine support for families who are running on fumes.

This is a £600 resource, and donating it means:

* More parents get the support they desperately need

* Families heading into Christmas aren’t left to cope alone

* Workplaces get better-rested, more regulated, more productive
employees

* Businesses can make a meaningful impact in their community when it’s needed most

It’s a win for everyone.

Sleep deprivation is tearing through wellbeing, relationships, performance and emotional regulation.

And parental rage?

It’s what happens when a tired brain reaches the end of what it can hold.

Nobody talks about it.
So I will.

Because ignoring it doesn’t make it disappear, it just leaves parents isolated, ashamed, and feeling like they’re the only ones going through it.

And about the word “Rage”…
Yes, some companies have asked me to soften it.

But every single person who has experienced it says the same thing:
Rage is exactly what it is.

So let’s call a spade a spade, rather than packaging it in something fluffy.

If your organisation wants to support your employees and give something truly meaningful to families who need help this Christmas, get in touch.

Book anytime in 2025, deliver whenever works for you, this year or next.

Let’s make this season easier for the parents who are barely keeping it together.

DMs open.