Standard (formerly) Gravity weighted blanket in test: Julia from the blog “Junieundich” tests our standard therapy blanket!

Behind the blog “Junieundich” is Julia - she deals with topics such as ‘positive mindsets’ and ‘mental health’ in her blog and daily life - when she is not lying awake at night. Julia has suffered for years from sleep problems, chronic exhaustion, and burnout. She has already tried many tips and tricks, went to bed early, banned all electronic devices from the bedroom, and stopped drinking coffee in the afternoon. But despite following these “fall asleep” tips, she often lay awake at night and had difficulty finding calm in the evening and letting go of the familiar "thought carousel." All these facts (unfortunately) qualify her as the perfect candidate for a test with our therapy blanket!

The Standard (formerly Gravity) weighted blanket in the test

Together with her dog Bulli, she tested the Standard (formerly Gravity) weighted blanket for a total of 8 weeks for us and documented her experiences and the change in her sleep quality on her blog.

At first, she found the adjustment to the weighted blanket difficult. The 6kg heavy weighted blanket, filled with fine glass beads, promotes the release of the happiness hormone serotonin and the sleep hormone melatonin while simultaneously lowering the cortisol level (the so-called stress hormone). The weight of the blanket feels like a loving hug.
Julia was also able to discover this feeling for herself and describes it in her blog as a "cave feeling" that gives her her "safe-space" (German: sicherer Raum), where she can relax and her racing thoughts decrease. 

Recommendation of the Standard (formerly Gravity) weighted blanket to her readers

After an eight-week test phase, Julia observed that her deep sleep phases improved and she can fall back asleep more quickly during short nighttime awakenings. The weighted blanket is her "protective wall" that helps her unwind from the day's events and world happenings in the evening and makes falling asleep easier again.

You can read the complete blog post about Julia's experiences with the weighted blanket, her new evening routine, and who she would recommend the blanket to besides her teenage daughter on her blog: Junieundich.