Animated Art has started to see a shift in mindset. When sleep doesn't happen he goes "meeh, I'll be ok" and then sleep happens! Mary has started having trouble sleeping after the lockdown. She has a see-saw sleep pattern and takes melatonin at times. What should she think about? Nancy didn't want to take medications and has 6 excellent questions about CBT, including whether one can get sick from accumulated sleep debt? Alakh is doing better but has many negative thoughts during the day, how can one work on those? Navinder is considering a 4 hour sleep window. How would he expand it? Omar is supposed to be up by 7 am but often sleeps until 7:30, is this a problem?
Sleep Insight #2: Lockdown Insomnia
May 16, 2020
In the spring of 2020, much of the world is confined to their homes because of a novel strain of a virus. We now have the three primary ingredients of insomnia - anxiety, time and attention.
In this episode we see that individually, neither is likely to produce a lot of trouble sleeping, but together they do just that.
We also talk about how to modify the ingredients and get better sleep.
Sleep Insight #1: 3 Reasons you Must Work on Sleep Efforts
May 16, 2020
A sleep effort is anything done to produce or preserve sleep. As sleep as a passive process they always produce insomnia.
In this episode we classify them, discuss why they’re a problem and what you should do to get to a place of sleeping fantastic.
Ask Daniel #43: When the Pressure is Too Strong
May 16, 2020
Cara has tried traditional CBTi but the rules and pressure to sleep has worked against her. She is falling asleep without a struggle but she keeps waking up and not falling back asleep.
Are there problems with textbook CBTi or is the one size fit all model where the issue is at? What should one do with sleep maintenance insomnia?
In this episode Coach Michael joins Coach Daniel for a deeper dive into their coaching philosophies and practical things to consider when awake at night.
Episode #10: The Beliefs About Sleep Tool
May 14, 2020
Master Coach Michael presents an important and apply it together with Master Coach Daniel to an email from someone with trouble sleeping.
Episode #8: Andrew Koppejan, physical therapist who uses CBTi (how cool is that!!) joins the show.
Feb 21, 2020
Noting that many of his patients had difficulties sleeping and that standard sleep hygiene advice wasn't helping, Andrew Koppejan went on to look for something better. He was excited to find that a set of insights and techniques known as cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) had solid backing as an excellent solution to insomnia.
Andrew went on to learn how to use these techniques and shares a story of a woman who got her life back thanks to excellent sleep coaching.
