Many people who contact me want to know if relapses – experiencing worse insomnia after a period of improvement – are normal. They also want … Read more »
How Long Does It Take to Get Over Insomnia?
The two most common questions I get from people trying to get over insomnia are 1) How long does it take? and 2) Why do … Read more »
The Role of Sleeping Pills in the Insomniac’s World
As I’ve mentioned before, I am generally in favor of a limited use of sleeping medications. I believe these can help calm sleep anxiety until … Read more »
Examples of CBT for Insomnia
If you need a little help getting started in your CBT for insomnia practice, you may find the following examples useful. Sometimes people need examples … Read more »
How to Practice CBT for Best Results
In previous articles I have described CBT as the process of writing down your thoughts, analyzing them to spot certain flaws in your thinking, and … Read more »
Kind, Gentle Help for Insomnia — Positive Self Talk
While you are going through the Help for Insomnia tutorial, there are a number of things you can do to move your progress in the … Read more »
Worrying About The Effects of Insomnia Keeping You Up At Night?
It seems like everywhere you go, someone is warning against the bad health effects of insomnia and sleep deprivation. Many studies have been done on … Read more »
Sleep Deprivation Studies and the Effect of Insomnia on Health — Long Term and Short Term
Sleep deprivation studies have revealed information that may help researchers better understand the long-term effect of insomnia on people’s physical and emotional health. But the … Read more »
Effects of Lack of Sleep — How Fear of Insomnia Side Effects Can Keep You Up At Night
Can’t sleep? The effects of lack of sleep are no joke. According to some research studies, sleep deprivation side effects can include increased risks of … Read more »
Sleep Deprivation and Insomnia – Why They’re Different and Why It Matters
I’ve already mentioned about some of the effects of insomnia and sleep deprivation. Now I’d like to expand a little on that topic. Why? Because … Read more »
A Visualization Lesson All Chronic Insomniacs Need to Learn
Even though I don’t suffer from chronic insomnia anymore, I still often use this visualization technique before I fall asleep because its so much fun. … Read more »
Instant Relaxation Exercises
Learning instant relaxation exercises can offer great benefits to chronic insomniacs. While I have covered breathing and relaxation techniques in this article, most of them … Read more »
Progressive Relaxation as an Insomnia Aid
While progressive relaxation exercises aren’t a magic cure-all for chronic insomnia, they can certainly help. Learning these techniques has great benefits, and can make you … Read more »
The CBT Insomnia Program… How Cognitive Therapy for Insomnia Can Work for You
Cognitive therapy for insomnia — and creating your own CBT insomnia program — can be your key to peaceful sleep, especially if you suffer from … Read more »
Conditioned Insomnia — How Establishing a Pre-Sleep Routine Can Help
If you have conditioned insomnia, it’s very important to develop a pre-sleep routine. The reason has to do with how the brain works. As we … Read more »
Diet for Insomnia
The right diet for insomnia is one that aims for calmness and stability in all body systems. If you have chronic insomnia, your body, especially … Read more »
Exercise and insomnia – Can You Move Your Way to Better Sleep?
What is the exercise and insomnia connection? Well, to begin with, many insomniacs avoid exercise altogether because they feel so tired. This is one case … Read more »
Teenage Insomnia Part II — A Look at Some Emotional Causes of Insomnia in Adolescence
I discussed one of the primary physical causes of teenage insomnia in this article, a delayed sleep pattern that by itself is not true insomnia, … Read more »
Teenage Insomnia Part I
Teenage insomnia has two main primary causes: the first is changes in the biological clock (along with a lot of other new physiologic developments) that … Read more »
Subconscious Causes of Insomnia – How to Know, and What to Do
Subconscious causes of insomnia might sound mysterious, but they really aren’t. Simply put, there could be a reason for insomnia that you aren’t consciously aware … Read more »