[Sbrook]

Hello! I’m a new mom of a 2 month old baby. The baby has started sleeping a longer stretch at the beginning of the night 8:30ish until 3ish, eating and then going back down for a few more hours. It’s those few more hours that I can’t fall back to sleep for the last three nights. I definitely have some sleep anxiety thoughts keeping me from falling back to sleep. I also am starting work again in a few weeks and I work evenings so my whooole schedule is about to turn upside down. Hoping to find support in ways to not let me anxiety manifest all day physically, all around what’s going to happen that night.

[Chee2308]

Greetings!
Unfortunately, anxiety is not something that typing away on some forum like this one will help resolve. Most people will only truly get through it by willing to experience it, inviting it, expecting it or even welcoming it as they become more adventurous. This is the basis of the Claire Weekes’ method. Then slowly over time, they just get desensitized by whatever they are anxious about and they no longer fear their fears. By then, they start realizing these fears aren’t real threats at all and it’s all just being a state of confusion. Your brain has mistaken a false threat such as believing you have lost your ability to sleep which is completely 100% false with a real one, like encountering a real tiger. Best wishes and you can do this too!

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