Let's start with what we WON'T be doing...
🚫 Forcing strict bedtimes
🚫 Counting sleep hours
🚫 Sleep restriction or control tactics
🚫 Obsessing over “perfect” routines
🚫 Forcing CBT-I frameworks that never felt right
You’ve probably tried it all, and if none of it worked, that’s not your fault.
Most sleep advice focuses on
fixing sleep itself, but insomnia isn’t really about sleep. It’s your brain’s
stuck on survival mode. Somewhere along the way, your nervous system learned that being awake meant being unsafe, so it’s kept you hyperaroused, even when you’re exhausted.
In my work, we don’t fight sleep or try and control it, instead
retrain our nervous system to trust ourselves enough for sleep to return - without sleep aids, medication, or restrictive schedules.