Natassia Halabi is a mother, stage and screen actress, writer and ex-lawyer who lives in Bondi Beach. Natassia has an impressive list of credits, including a stint in NCIS: Los Angeles and Netflix’s mini-series Apple Cider Vinegar. Having travelled the world and living and working in Hollywood for six years, Natassia knew she also wanted to pursue screenwriting. We find out how she winds down after a busy day.
5 – 7 PM
Cooking dinner for the family. Always a protein-centred meal. Either wild, local fish like snapper or whiting, or grass-fed meat, with a salad and some complex carbs. Sometimes it’s spaghetti Bolognese (my daughter’s favourite) with organic mince and loaded with veggies. With fruit or good quality dark chocolate for dessert.
Then it’s a magnesium salts bath with my daughter. I leave oil on my face to get the day’s sunscreen off, and do a gua shau facial massage, and then some kind of scrub if time permits.
7 – 9 PM
Magnesium sleep supplement – I opt for the powder ones like Bioceuticals Muscleeze. Red light mask a few nights a week as I read books to my daughter, she thinks it’s hilarious. I let her play with it as the red light helps her wind down too. “Spa Treatment” playlist on Spotify as we fall asleep with my phone on airplane mode.
9 – 11 PM (or beyond)
Busy snoozing!
Are you a night owl or a morning lark?
Morning lark! When I go to dinner with friends my eyes are half closed at the table by 9pm. In my 20s I’d stay up til midnight every night, but I’m more sensitive in my 30s and I know sleeping with my circadian rhythms helps my hormones.
What is the one thing that you do that always guarantees a good night’s sleep?
Magnesium complex powder and a hearty high protein dinner with lots of good carbs to help me feel sleepy! And we use an air-purifier which tracks the air quality on an app.
Do you use any technology to track your sleep patterns?
We used an Ultrahuman ring for a while, but it depressed us when it told us we had bad sleep, and then we felt more tired because it told us so! And when you have young kids some nights you don’t have a choice but to wake up!
Does your wind down routine change between weeknights and the weekend?
Absolutely! I don’t get as much sleep, but I make sure to make up for it with good sleep in the week. If we do go out for dinner and I want to have a drink, it will be one or two drinks at the start, good tequila only, so by the time I get home my body’s metabolised the alcohol and I’ve drunk lots of water. If I’m celebrating and there’s more drinks involved, I put salt in my water to hydrate, and I keep up my B vitamins, and always take activated charcoal to detox before bed that night.
Natassia Halabi is a mother, stage and screen actress, writer and ex-lawyer who lives in Bondi Beach. Natassia has an impressive list of credits, including a stint in NCIS: Los Angeles and Netflix’s mini-series Apple Cider Vinegar. Having travelled the world and living and working in Hollywood for six years, Natassia knew she also wanted to pursue screenwriting. We find out how she winds down after a busy day.
5 – 7 PM
Cooking dinner for the family. Always a protein-centred meal. Either wild, local fish like snapper or whiting, or grass-fed meat, with a salad and some complex carbs. Sometimes it’s spaghetti Bolognese (my daughter’s favourite) with organic mince and loaded with veggies. With fruit or good quality dark chocolate for dessert.
Then it’s a magnesium salts bath with my daughter. I leave oil on my face to get the day’s sunscreen off, and do a gua shau facial massage, and then some kind of scrub if time permits.
7 – 9 PM
Magnesium sleep supplement – I opt for the powder ones like Bioceuticals Muscleeze. Red light mask a few nights a week as I read books to my daughter, she thinks it’s hilarious. I let her play with it as the red light helps her wind down too. “Spa Treatment” playlist on Spotify as we fall asleep with my phone on airplane mode.
9 – 11 PM (or beyond)
Busy snoozing!
Are you a night owl or a morning lark?
Morning lark! When I go to dinner with friends my eyes are half closed at the table by 9pm. In my 20s I’d stay up til midnight every night, but I’m more sensitive in my 30s and I know sleeping with my circadian rhythms helps my hormones.
What is the one thing that you do that always guarantees a good night’s sleep?
Magnesium complex powder and a hearty high protein dinner with lots of good carbs to help me feel sleepy! And we use an air-purifier which tracks the air quality on an app.
Do you use any technology to track your sleep patterns?
We used an Ultrahuman ring for a while, but it depressed us when it told us we had bad sleep, and then we felt more tired because it told us so! And when you have young kids some nights you don’t have a choice but to wake up!
Does your wind down routine change between weeknights and the weekend?
Absolutely! I don’t get as much sleep, but I make sure to make up for it with good sleep in the week. If we do go out for dinner and I want to have a drink, it will be one or two drinks at the start, good tequila only, so by the time I get home my body’s metabolised the alcohol and I’ve drunk lots of water. If I’m celebrating and there’s more drinks involved, I put salt in my water to hydrate, and I keep up my B vitamins, and always take activated charcoal to detox before bed that night.
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