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Hi Jennifer,
Your podcast was awesome – thank you so much. I have had trouble sleeping for around 5 months. I am on week 9 of CBTI and my experience so far with CBTI is almost identical to yours.

I am able to build sleep pressure and eliminate onset insomnia but after 2-4 hours I am up.

When I awaken I am not anxious and I then drift in and out of very light sleep – I never go back to deep sleep.

On your podcast I heard you identify that your daytime focus on sleep was causing nighttime arousal. I also saw you mention that you do yoga and meditate to help with your arousal system.

I have a few questions regarding your success in this area.

Was changing the actions for sleep research and discussion enough to change your thoughts and help with the nighttime awakenings or was there more to it than that. I am looking for as much detail as you can give me on how you “let go”.

There are times I can expel sleep thoughts on days that I feel ok, but I want to expand that and I am not sure what the right way to go about it is.

Thanks,

Ryan

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