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It’s hard to come up with timelines since everyone is different and many people define “effectiveness” and “success” in different ways.
A sleep window is just one tool that can help us move away from chasing after sleep. Although some people find that a sleep window is all they need, other areas often need to be explored (such as how we respond to being awake during the night and how we deal with the difficult thoughts and feelings that often show up with insomnia).
A sleep window can easily become a sleep effort if used in an attempt to make a certain amount or type of sleep happen — and, as you likely know from experience, the more effort we put into sleep the more elusive and difficult it can seem to become!
As you shared, this is often a marathon and not a sprint. And you cannot control the outcome you are looking to reach — you can only control your ongoing practice and implementation. Things that will move you closer to where you want to be.
I wish you all the best on your journey. It sounds as though you have the mindset, attitude, and strengths to succeed
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Ah yes, turning on the news might not always be helpful!!!
A podcast cannot make sleep happen, but if it helps you experience being awake with less struggle, it might be a more helpful option!
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
Sorry to hear about your lifelong struggle with insomnia. You are not alone. Have you picked up any ideas or made any changes since you found us?
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
Sleep paralysis can happen in the presence of insomnia and without the presence of insomnia.
Sleep paralysis can be scary but it’s not usually a symptom of a medication condition. With that being said, sleep paralysis isn’t my area of expertise so if it’s of concern, I would suggest talking to your doctor.
This information from the Cleveland Clinic might be helpful, too: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21974-sleep-paralysis
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
I love it! Willingness to learn is the first step toward transformation
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
There can be no doubt that the exhaustion, fear, anxiety, nervousness and all the other thoughts and feelings that often come with insomnia are really difficult to experience.
Those thoughts and feelings can also influence our actions in unhelpful ways — we can find ourselves acting in ways that we don’t want to act, we can find ourselves getting pulled away from the life we want to live.
When we are struggling with insomnia it can be so much harder to be the person we want to be and to focus on the world around us.
Did you pick up any ideas or insights from the free insomnia sleep training course? Did it help you identify any potential changes you might make that could potentially change your current situation and relationship with sleep?
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
Sorry to hear of the lack of support you faced when things were so difficult for you.
I am so glad to hear you feel you’ve now found some support and feel more understood. Although it probably felt like it, you were never alone — and you certainly are not alone today.
I wish you all the best with the new path you find yourself on
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
That sounds difficult and you are not alone — all human beings feel scared from time to time. What do you feel you need to do to change the situation you find yourself in when it comes to sleep?
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
Thanks for sharing — and I agree, all the “good stuff” when it comes to insomnia tends to be buried under all the unhelpful stuff such as scary and misleading health-related headlines and the typical sleep hygiene articles. I wish you all the best on your journey
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
You are not alone and it makes sense that with a touring lifestyle, some form of sleep disruption might accompany that. In what ways do you find your sleep is disrupted and how do you respond when you are in bed and awake when you want to be asleep?
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
Thank you so much for sharing! It’s totally natural for all those human thoughts and feelings to show up when difficult nights show up. What matters is how you respond!
It sounds as though you are holding those thoughts and feelings more lightly than you might have done in the past — and that you are also experiencing them with a bit more curiosity rather than immediately reaching for the sword, suit of armor, and heading into battle. It also sounds as though you are being a lot kinder to yourself, too.
Not only are those changes a reflection of your progress, they also demonstrate your growth mindset.
As you shared, frustration and fear is natural and normal. And, it takes ongoing practice to be able to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings (and difficult nights) in a workable way that doesn’t get us tangled up in more struggle, more difficultly, and pull us away from the life we want to live.
Your problem-solving mind is pumped after a lifetime of working out — your wise mind is playing catchup. However, with ongoing practice, it’ll continue to get stronger
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
It sounds as though you’ve come up with some good ideas there, Kevin! Acknowledging, thanking, allowing are all approaches that can help reduce struggle since they don’t involve trying to control the brain.
I loved your analogy of the tightrope walker — very apt! When we try to “not think” about something, what do we think about?! That very thing, right?
@Sdzagrean — it sounds as though when you get “tired of the process” there’s no more effort or attempts to control. You let go — and things get a bit easier. Do I have that right?—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
Thanks for sharing how you respond to the time traveling mind — as you mentioned, your mind doesn’t know the future (regardless of what it might claim)!
It sounds as though you are practicing making space for all these thoughts, stories, and feelings. You are acknowledging them as thoughts. You are getting less tangled up in them. You are recognizing that they can also be a reminder of things that are important to you.
I appreciated you also sharing that deeper insight and recognition that even though things felt really difficult, when your focus shifted out and onto where you were, you become more aware of your environment and the world around you. And, in your words, this helped you see that things were still “normal”. Perhaps this helped ground you a little, helped you anchor yourself so you were a bit more present in the midst of the internal storm that was going on?
It sounds as though you are making a lot of progress because you are continuing to practice. You are continuing to learn and you are continuing to reveal fresh, useful insights! Thanks again for sharing
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
Yes, 100%, it is really difficult to honor commitments after difficult nights. Let there be no doubt about that!
After difficult nights, you have a choice to make, right? You can choose to honor your commitments or you can choose not to honor your commitments. And, which of those options move you closer to the life you want to live?
Your final paragraph is full of insight and what you shared there is a reflection of your strengths of tenacity and determination — it sounds as though your experience tells you that without plans, things rarely feel better. They might, in fact, get worse. It also sounds as though you are able to draw on your strengths to commit to “just one more hour” of doing things that matter in order to keep moving toward the life you want to live when things feel difficult.
This isn’t easy and you aren’t alone in finding this difficult. When things feel really difficult, are you also able to speak and act toward yourself in a kind way — or do you find yourself being quite hard on yourself?
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
I appreciate your ongoing exploration and consideration — all signs of your growth mindset
Yes, as with life, there are always going to be “grey areas”. One reason why this course explores values in so much detail is they can be used as a guide in situations like this. When faced with a choice you might ask yourself if a considered action is aligned with your values — if it moves you toward the life you want to live or if it pulls you away from the life you want to live.
Quite often, using our values as a guide is more helpful (and workable) compared to using our feelings as a guide. When we use our feelings as a guide we can sometimes get pulled away from the life we want to live in an attempt to fight or avoid difficult feelings.
When it comes to being awake in bed, I don’t think there’s any need to do anything just because you are awake. It’s normal to spend time awake in bed and it’s OK to spend time awake in bed!
If you find yourself struggling, then you have the opportunity to practice experiencing being awake with less struggle (maybe by practicing the AWAKE exercise, for example).
There’s also no need to ever get out of bed just because you are awake, unless you want to. You might, for example, simply do something more appealing while in bed — anything that helps you practice being awake with less struggle.
I hope there’s something helpful here
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
