The face behind Sleepy Bee
My name is Josie. With a degree and having worked in social care for over 10 years supporting vulnerable families and carers, I’ve seen how vital sleep and emotional wellbeing is to daily life and how life changing the right support can be.
Then I became a mum and immediately realised my biggest fear had come true, I didn't have a 'sleeper'.
I spent months battling sleep deprivation: multiple night waking's, hours of tears (hers and mine), and naps that barely happened. It was exhausting and isolating.
That all changed when I found a gentle sleep consultant who used responsive, child-led methods. The impact on our family was profound. I discovered the joy of parenting and gained the energy, patience, and emotional wellbeing I’d been craving.
Inspired by that transformation, I trained, became a certified sleep consultant myself and Sleepy Bee was started! Now I have worked with many families, with wide ranging needs and goals, but all with a similar outcome - finally getting their life back! But I don't stop learning, to this day I continue to seek learning opportunities, develop, research and reflect on my work.
I am now a Mum to 2. My second has been extremely different. Now I understand the difference between a baby who wakes 3 times, feeds and goes back to sleep, and a baby who wakes 3 times but takes hours to go back to sleep.