Its one month after I participated in the course with Martin Reed. Prior to this, I had several nights a week where I would lay in bed for hours on end. So many dreadful thoughts filled my head, “Why the hell can I not sleep” and ” I hate this so much, my health is being affected and I so badly want this to end”. I first started struggling with insomnia almost 5 years ago during really stressful exams during nursing school. I went what felt like months with poor sleep, drank enormous amounts of caffeine, and ended up in the ER due to anxiety after a terrible week. It then.. kind of just went away and sporadically came back through the years when something stressful came up. I developed a huge fear of insomnia itself since I so badly wanted to avoid all the stressful thoughts that came with it.
Recently, I went through a job change, city change, and schedule change and it felt like I was right back at square one. Terrible nights of sleep filled me with dread and depression. I found Martins course on a frantic search at 3am desperate for help. After a week of thought I decided to take the “risk” of investing into this course. It was more personalized and expensive than any other program I did but I really wanted to get help once and for all.
Well, it was such a good decision. This course really taught me how to properly react to the frantic thoughts I was having. I also was able to really examine some of the beliefs I held about sleep that were not serving me. Slowly but surely my sleep returned. This course gave me the tools to properly face poor nights of sleep and what to do when that happens. The best things about this course are the personalized approach of working 1-1 with someone who genuinely wants to help and knows how your feeling. I am much less afraid of insomnia itself and know that when it may appear again, I have the tools to face them with much more grace and acceptance.