In this edition of the weekly roundup we review what has happened on the channel and take a look at an amazing threat in the comments. Lester and John share with PBC, Caitlyn and Lara what helped them leave the struggle with sleep to help you and everyone else in our community.

Neil from Talking insomnia #45 fifteen months after sharing his success story. A lot has changed in his life, and the changes are all connected to the inner journey that led him past insomnia and to more peace and joy than he ever imagined possible.

Libby feels pressure to sleep from being a mom with many obligations. Malena wonders if it's odd that she is monitoring the falling asleep process. Time has decided upon a sleep schedule. Anges is afraid of becoming afraid, and feels hopeless. Anonymous feels like they lost their sleep drive and wonders if it can come back.

In this episode, we look at two articles online with the triggering message that sleeping more than 8 hours is bad for us. One also suggests that sleeping less than 6 hours may be unhealthy as well. What is actually true?

In this episode, we see that education and logical understanding are foundational to leaving insomnia. However, we also see that there is a place where logic ends. When in this place, treating our brain as we would like to be treated can truly help. And what this means is to give the brain a North Star.

In this weeks roundup we take a look at what has happened on the channel, including a wonderful success story from Richard. We learn that when Richard no longer looked at sleeping well every night as a condition for no longer having insomnia, he no longer had insomnia.

Being a fitness coach, Rob (also a graduate from our Insomnia Immunity program) had always taken his health seriously. When his group of friends bought sleep trackers and competed to see who slept best, what was to become a 15 month long struggle began.

In this episode, Rob shares the paradoxical journey that led him back to where he used to be. A place where he just watches some TV, falls asleep, and wakes up refreshed the next morning.

Meghan has seen sleep onset insomnia become sleep maintenance insomnia. Lara saw her sleep honeymoon disappear. John has been scared after seeing Richard Siagan's vidoes. Peggy is starting to feel tired, but is discouraged because she only sleeps 3-4 hours after many weeks of sleep restriction.

Mario is worried because he has heard that if it takes more than 30 minutes to sleep, then sleep quality decreases. In this episode, we look at the article where this concern comes from. We find that if we define sleeping well as our subjective experience of sleeping well, it is not surprising that this one measure is correlated with itself.

Many in our community have remarked that our way of meeting insomnia is similar to exposure therapy. In this episode we look at how true this is. We examine some potential problems with exposure therapy and finally see how the idea of facing our fears can work when we have struggled with sleep.