Missy Morrison Charko is a Certified Pediatric Sleep Sense™ Consultant and Founder of Say Yes to the Rest Pediatric Sleep Consulting. She helps exhausted parents, with coaching and support, get their child sleeping soundly, so they can start to feel like themselves again and their child can get the sleep that they need for their growth and development!

She is a mom of two young children, who once also greatly struggled with her child’s sleep, and entrepreneur located in BC, where she provides private sleep consultations across Canada and the USA.  A contributing editor on child sleep for BC Parent News Magazine, she has been featured on Modern Mama, Mom.com, Zenimal.com and CBC Radio Vancouver, has been a guest on numerous health/wellness and parenting podcasts, and does seminars for BC Public Health and family resource centers, to help parents lay healthy foundations for their child’s sleep. A member of the International Association of Child Sleep Consultants (IACSC), she was a Guest Speaker at The Baby Show in Vancouver (2023).  Missy holds a BFA (SU) and is also a Dance Instructor and Creative Director for a children’s non-profit arts program and is the Co-Director of the 1^st Annual Shuswap Family Expo happening this September 2024.

She has had comprehensive sleep training with the Sleep Sense™ Program, has trained to help children with special needs with sleep and continues to educate herself with evolving scientific sleep research. She recently completed her Certification in Sleep Health Intelligence through the Sleep Health Organization.  Believing that every family dynamic is different, she gives the support that suits each family’s unique needs. 

You can visit her website: www.sayyestotherest.com or follow her @SayYesToTheRestToday for more tips and information.