Neil shares a very helpful analogy about the elevator and the stairs. When you start having trouble sleeping, you may quickly take the elevator down. Starting to learn about sleep and insomnia is like taking the stairs back up. It takes time, you may take steps backwards, but if you keep learning and engaging - you will get back up again!

Jacquelyn is sleeping only 2 hours on sleep medications after becoming a mom again. Jay is losing weight and sleeping better than in a long time. Irmina wonders how one can focus less on sleep while doing sleep restriction and stimulus control. Aren’t those a reminder of how you have trouble sleeping? Moses asks how one can deploy cbt when one’s core belief is that women don’t find one attractive because one is not good enough. Leo slept well when not having any early daytime obligation, but when having to start getting up early, insomnia starts again. Riley has had major insights and thought he was past insomnia only to have a sleepless night. What’s next?

Michael wonders if having internal tremors when you are awake at night is common with anxiety. Haley desperately wants to get off Seroquel and Trazodone but whenever she has tried she’s become so emotionally distraught that she couldn’t. Christopher is doing well but still wakes up a few times and wonders - is this normal? Caroline asks what to do then you are restless at night. Malena has a little angel and devil in her shoulders, and she’s not afraid of the little devil anymore. Ahmed is in a the rabbit hole. How can he start climbing back up?

2 years ago, after become a father again, Jim lost control of his sleep. He went on to lose 30 pounds, become hospitalized and was afraid he would have to leave his job due to the ongoing struggle he had with insomnia. Everything started changing when he was recommended to tune in to Martin Reed on YouTube. He then found this channel and truly started his path towards transforming his relationship with sleep and wakefulness. He now has gotten his life back, and he wants to share what was most helpful to him.

Tim and Diego once where living side by side in unfenced bungalows by the beach. Now Diego has mounted a tight security system due to theft but continues to lose sleep.

In this episode we will see that when you are brave and dismantle your security system, and move back to the open bungalow, great sleep will come your way.

In this important episode we talk about what an acceptability threshold is - a line in the sand that you have drawn to create a sense of control. We talk about the problem the threshold produces, a pressure to remain above and most importantly - how to abandon the threshold and get amazing sleep.

Caroline has had digestive issues and wonders if CBT is right for her. Ricardo is sleeping better but is not where he wants to be - what should he be doing differently (spoiler alert: not much!)? Stasia sleeps very little after becoming a mom, and wonders if there’s hope for her. Dustin wakes up multiple but falls back asleep quickly, what’s going on? Salima has developed somniohobia, perhaps after a family member passed away in sleep. How can she not be afraid of going to sleep?

When you are hard on yourself for not being able to sleep or control your thoughts, you are blaming yourself for not being able to do the impossible. In this episode we will see how being hard on yourself can make things feel hopeless and get you stuck, whereas self-kindness leads to a place of hope from where anything is possible.