It’s common to have difficulties with sleep after experiencing sexual abuse or rape.

Rape Crisis England & Wales discuss common Sleep Problems and provide ideas of how improve your sleep.

The Survivors Trust have a variety of informative self-help resources on their website. Their page on Sleep has stories from other survivors, discusses the importance of sleep and provides advice on dealing with various sleep problems/conditions.

Mind have provided tips on how to improve Sleep.

The NHS have created a self-help guide to help you to recognise the symptoms of Sleep Problems, understand what Sleep Problems are, what causes them and how to find ways to manage your Sleep Problems.

Calming music, podcasts or mindfulness apps can be a good way to manage your Sleeping Problems.

Apps Suggestions

Sanvello – Teaches mindfulness skills and provides mood and health tracking tools that can be used to improve mental and physical health.

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Headspace – Meditation and Mindfulness tools with themed sessions on topics like sleep and anxiety. The App includes sounds/music to help with focus, mood and sleep.

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Tide – Inspired by traveling, nature and meditation. Tide provides a massive library of sounds, music and more to help you Sleep, Relax or Focus.

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Sleepa keeps things simple, choose your sounds and set a timer. Sleepa is made for Android only.

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