Organic and natural mattresses are different from the usual types of mattresses available, so buying the type that fits you and your lifestyle the best is important to consider. While we have all shopped for a regular mattress at some point or another in our lives, buying a natural or organic mattress is a slightly…
How to Choose the Perfect Mattress
Sleep: we all know it’s important; if you’re getting the recommended eight hours of sleep each night, you are spending 1/3 of your life in bed! And most of us get the majority of our sleep in our own beds. So, it stands to reason that choosing a mattress should be a pretty important decision.…
Sleep Fact and Fiction
Many Americans struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep each night. If you are one of them you may have heard conflicting information about what helps people sleep and what negatively impacts sleep. Read on to learn whether common sleep beliefs are fact or fiction. Fiction: Alcohol Will Help You Sleep. People commonly believe that…
Here’s Why Naps Shouldn’t Just be for Kids
Remember when you were a kid, and you were forced to take a nap every day? You probably hated it, right? Napping kept you from doing fun kid stuff. The good news is that, now that you’re older than 5 years old, nobody is going to force you to take a nap. Now when you are…
Dangers of Irregular Sleeping Patterns in Adolescents
It seems that nearly every year we are provided with another new study that emphasizes the importance of healthy in growing and developing teenagers. Just as food nourishes your body, sleep is one of the most important ways that you can directly impact the overall health of your brain. Consumers will often times do their…
Four Tips to Improve Your Sleeping Patterns Today
Nothing sets the tone for your day quite like a good night´s sleep, and science continues to prove that proper amounts of rest is required for our bodies to function at their full potential. Sleep deficiency has been connected to memory loss, slow reaction times and overall moodiness, and for these reasons, many are willing…
Mattress Cleaning & Maintenance Tips
While you most likely wash your sheets and comforter on a regular basis, many homeowners go years without even thinking about cleaning their mattress. While there are a few lines of defense between you and the actual mattress itself, this is a place where you spend around eight hours daily, and it is sure to…
Our Favorite Mattresses To “Fall” Into…
‘Tis the season to be jolly…and sleep deprived, heh. But you don’t have to be! As fall leans toward winter, the days are short, the nights are long and being inside, cuddled under the covers, is ohh, so cozy. It’s not hard to be a fan of mulled wine, leaping flames in the fireplace and…
Gratitude
So over the past couple of weeks we’ve been thinking a lot about happiness and that we can have it despite our circumstances. Last week we wrote about how science shows we can learn to be happy no matter what happens or doesn’t happen to us! A big part of that has to be due…
What Makes Us Happy
We watched a TED talk the other day that really got us thinking. It was by a Harvard psychologist who studies how we as humans have developed the amazing ability to synthesize our own happiness. What the heck does that mean? Well, psychologist Dan Gilbert says it’s how we go through something hard or awful, or…