Insomnia Mastery Program: Application Form

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1Present & Future You

2Coaching Process

3Next Steps

4Final Submission

Your current situation

What are your biggest struggles with sleep?(Required)

What’s stopping you from experiencing a different relationship with sleep?(Required)

What have you tried so far and what did you learn from those things?(Required)

Tell me about the best experience you've had dealing with insomnia in the past:(Required)

What did you learn? What insights can you share?

Who you are and who you want to be

What are your dreams?(Required)

What are your most ambitious wishes and desires for the future?

What do you stand for?(Required)

What are your values and why are those values important to you?

Tell me about a time when you overcame adversity.(Required)

What skills and strengths got you through it and what did you learn from the experience?

Change (and the consequences of no change)

In terms of working with me: Why now, and why me?(Required)

If nothing changes and you are still struggling with sleep a year from now, what does that life look like and how does it feel?(Required)

What does success look like?(Required)

If I could wave a magic wand and make everything right, what would be different? What would you be doing differently? How would you be feeling differently?

If your experience seems to tell you that sleep (and all the difficult thoughts and feelings associated with insomnia) might be out of your direct control, how else might you measure your progress if we were to work together?(Required)

How can I best help you make progress toward your goals?(Required)

For change to happen, you might need to change your current approach to sleep and your current response to insomnia — how does that feel for you?(Required)

How coaching works

It's important to understand that coaching is not therapy. Here are some key differences:

Therapy often addresses the past and seeks to heal disorder. Coaching focuses mainly on your present reality, with a view of the future you want for yourself.

Therapy addresses difficult thoughts and feelings as something to be treated, spends time to uncover them as a symptom of what's wrong, and often delves deeply into unresolved pain. Coaching acknowledges all thoughts and feelings and sees them as natural and normal, even though some are not pleasant in the moment. Working with a coach can lead to shifts, insights, and a new relationship with the thoughts and feelings that come with being a human being.

Therapy focuses on diagnosing and providing professional expertise and guidelines for healing. Coaching focuses on your strengths and capabilities to move toward change. A coach partners with a client to choose goals and find solutions.

Therapy is a therapist-patient relationship, where the therapist has the answers. Coaching is a collaborative relationship between equal partners where the coach helps the client self-discover answers.

The coaching process

Coaching is a partnership. A coach empowers, supports, and guides a client as they work toward their goals. A coach does not tell a client what to do or what they should do. The client is the expert on themselves.

Coaching focuses on helping clients draw upon their own experience, insights, values, and strengths to set goals, commit to action steps, and hold themselves accountable to building the future they want for themselves.

Coaching is a process of experimentation and learning. It doesn’t involve dwelling on the past. It focuses on the present and the future the client wants for themselves. It emphasizes possibility and positivity. Coaching is not counseling, therapy, medical advice, or medical treatment.

If your application is approved, we will work as partners. I will give you my full attention. I will listen to you with compassion. I will accept you completely. I will not judge you and I will not tell you what to do.

I will focus on your strengths and what matters to you. I will help you brainstorm possibilities for moving forward and navigating roadblocks. I will bring powerful insights to your attention. I will have the unwavering belief that you can succeed and reach the goals you set for yourself.

I will ask powerful questions and encourage you to arrive at your own answers whenever possible. This will require you to do a lot of thinking. In our sessions, you will be the one doing most of the talking because you are the expert on yourself and all the answers you need are already within you (even if you don’t realize it yet).

It is not my job to solve your problems for you. My job is to help you solve your problems. When appropriate, with your permission and within my scope of practice as a coach, I will offer advice and resources. However, you are the expert on you. It is not my job to fix you — because you are not broken!

You will be setting the goals, you will be making the decisions, you will be responsible for the actions you decide to practice, and you will be the one accountable for your actions!

Since you are responsible for making change happen, there is no money-back guarantee and there are no refunds. For coaching to be effective, you need to be 100% "all-in".

Does this kind of coaching sound like something that you’d benefit from? Why?(Required)

How the Insomnia Mastery program works

The Insomnia Mastery program runs for 12 weeks. We start with a 90-minute Zoom or phone session (your choice) that will take a deep dive into who you are, where you are now, where you want to be, and why you want to get there. This is an opportunity for me, as your coach, to really get to know you and for you, as the client, to gain clarity on where you want to go and the changes you want to make. You'll also start to develop a vision statement that will be used to get you (and keep you) moving in the direction you want to be heading during our time working together.

If there's time, we'll also see if we can come up with one specific action you feel ready, willing, and able to take with you to practice after the session — an action that will help you move toward the future you have in mind for yourself.

From then on, you'll be able to book up to six 40-minute coaching sessions for the remaining 12 weeks of the program. These can be booked one at a time, depending on your need. Typically, sessions are every two weeks. Some clients like to start with one or two weekly sessions before spacing them out to every two or three weeks.

In each 40-minute coaching session, we'll explore what you learned from your practice and any changes you might wish to make. We might also add another action for you to practice, too.

In addition to our scheduled coaching sessions, you will also have unlimited email access to me during your enrollment in the program and I will answer any emails you send me within two business days.

Now, some of the actions you try might not be helpful. They might not work. And that doesn't mean they're a failure. They are still learning experiences and just mean that we need to make an adjustment. What truly matters is taking meaningful action. Making changes. Being willing to experiment. Being open-minded and curious. Investing your time, energy, and commitment into the process.

By the end of our time working together, you will have a number of skills to practice independently of me — skills that will keep you moving toward the vision statement you created at the very start of the program. The place where, ultimately, you want to be.

What would it feel like to work through a program like this and have this level of ongoing support as you are working on making some changes?(Required)