I loved this video ❤️ thanks!

Im desperate I tried everything including hight dose of CBD with thc but my mind don't switch off. Meditation make more anxiety. I don't know anymore what do. I lost all my family and. my mother and my boyfriend in fews months

I too had a return this year due to an incredibly stressful job. What I realised is I was always trying to control my sleep even when I thought I was better . I have a long way to go but I try carry on regardless now and have a good day

This made me smile so much, I also thought certain pyjamas would help me sleep or certain bedding !! I laugh now and I’ve never shared that until I heard this episode

Such a helpful video thanks Alina

Can you givee some advice...and how can i buy books from you..

Hi gud afternoon couch Daniel...i have chronic insomnia for 16 yrs...and now is more worst..when i close my eyes to sleep somethings happen ...i saw people places like im dreaming..but when i wake up i found my self not sleeping and my eye bags becomes bigger...i dont know what happens to me..

Very true, but so hard to do

Is it normal to have sleep maintenance insomnia after resolving sleep onset insomnia? I had sleep onset insomnia for 3 months, but then I found Dr. Daniel's channel and managed to reduce my hyperarousal to nothing. Since then, I've had no problem initiating sleep, but I can only maintain it for 2-4 hours. Is this normal, or do I have another issue?

if instead telling people, I keep repeating those thing in my mind, does it have the same effect?

How to stop or reduce morning cortisol skyrocketing? I had some insomnia issues, possibly general anxiety (I am a perfectionist, mildly introvert, I think I dont love myself well, always feeling I need to prove something etc). I have never had problems falling asleep, sleeping super well 4-5 , maybe 6 hrs until about 05:00-06:00 or so (my normal time to wake up for work is 07:00). ANd between 06:00 -07:00 I feel my heart thumping, racing thoughts about work, responsibilities, being good etc. Every day. I am generally OK, I understand I dont die, but this just makes waking up so less pleasant. So I "befriended" it, really, but it still is annoying, I am sure it has impact on hormones (less morning wood as cortisol goes against testosterone etc). Would love to wake up fresh and ""sleepy", not anxious. Hope to hear from you some good tips. And thank you for this channel, so many things are clearer now.

Hi daniel, jsut wanted to share my current problem I sleep perfectly at night (used to have insomnia before because of fearing wakefulness). But my problem is that I am 90% recovered from anxiety. there were times when I woke up on heart palptiations when trying to sleep at middawy. now when I don't get enough sleep at night (due to being busy not from insomnia) and get up in the morning and go out I start warroying about getting those palptiations to get those 2-hours of sleep at daytime, so I get them and wake up on severe palpitations. I don't what is the cause of this, is this anticipatory anxiety, my subconscious mind is convinced that this situation is danger ? or this beacuse I worry about them ?. Also when It comes to the solution, should I just stop worrying about them, expect them and be okay with those thoughts and feelings ? you mean like the way we deal with wakefulness ? and what should I do after I wake up on those palpitations, should I try to feel those while in bed ? cause when I experience palpitation in bed, it gets worse.. or should I just leave in the background and try to relax or sleep with it? [I sleep perfectly at night and also at daytime if I didn't go out and had a long tiring day].

Dear Daniel am alive after battling insomnia 0 sleep day and night for 3years am grateful to your videos and Sasha Stephens

So in short - we are to live life as if there is NO sleep issue enjoying life as if we had slept and just go to bed and leave it to well it will resolve maybe I’ll sleep tonight or not no big deal perhaps we don’t even think of that question which would be ideal. I agree this often works. I have had stressful events in which I don’t think about sleep and fall asleep because I wasn’t focused on sleep but the other stressor. It’s such an annoying thing But then there are days I don’t think of sleep and still find my self not sleeping with this “access energy I have” just unable to feel that sleepy heavy feeling. That energy is a lot and it’s like why? Could it be old trauma and issues survival stress that is coming out perhaps one has to befriend that stress and let it come out. Ask the “wolf” which is what I call it - I have given it that name because it’s cool and wants to protect. It’s got energy to fight and flight. So I ask the wolf why are you here? Sometimes I understand other times I just don’t and let it be

Another great video, Daniel. Iv experienced it all. I felt better hearing there were names for some of the things I was experiencing.

The strangest symptom i got was not being able to complete my yawns lol so frustrating we know how nice a yawn feels. Thinks its something to do with anxiety

Dear Daniel I left insomnia after 3 years of madness glory to God to everyone battling insomnia accept it and it will go

Could meeting speed bumps with fear and not the right way make the innitial insomnia/symptoms even worse?

This goes for sleep paralysis as well! The more you think about it during the day the more hyper aware you will be at night and more likely to cause sleep paralysis

Hi coach Daniel. Can you please talk about “if I dont sleep I will lose my mind” fear. That is what causes me the biggest anxiety, fear and sleepless nights 😞

Hey Daniel , hope you are doing good. I am having a speed bump after two years and it’s worse, I’ve made a person in my mind who at night when I go to sleep and closes my eyes constantly tells me that I cannot sleep and I won’t sleep at all and says some very disturbing stuff which results in me not being able to sleep. The following day I’m all hyperaroused. Not being able to sleep is fine. But this new thing of a person in my head telling me that he won’t let me sleep is triggering my anxiety. Can you please educate me what’s happening?

I have only been watching these videos for a few weeks, and I say this without hyperbole, but they have changed my life dramatically. I have had a total shift in perspective from these teachings. The sheer simplicity of this approach (or lack of!) is profound in and of itself. For the first time in over a decade I get it. And what fascinates me the most is that knowledge is rarely enough to change behavior, but every once in a while something just "clicks" and you can change course with very little need to steer. Daniel, you are truly a genius. I am in the process of a career change to become a licensed mental health counselor, and I want to include sleep coaching in my practice. I would love to connect with you to tell my story and also discuss your certification program. Is there a way I can contact you directly?

Sir I want to know this one thing. I'm sleeping 4-5 hours in the afternoon and 1-2 hours at night, because I cannot sleep at night for 6-7 hours straight, is it okay to sleep like that for recovery process? Because my doctors are against it but this is the only natural way in which I can sleep.

Thank you so much! I wish I would have known this a long time ago!

Thanks for another insightful video! Could this video possibly be added to hypnic jerks list as well?

I need help , not sleeping at all and having brain fog and not filling my leg sometimes , palpitations every day 24/7 deasy, fatigue,ringing in ears ,headache , everything bad , scared

So helpful and inspiring! Thank you Coach Christian!

Right now I'm on vacation and under pressure because I have a lot of activities during the day and it's harder because I'm expecting too much for myself. I'm still taking pills but few nights ago I had to took it three times and had maybe 3 hours of sleep...next day I was much better than days with 6 hours of sleep so I decided not to take more than my usual dose while I'm here

Hello❤️ first of all I want to say that you are amazing coach and absolutely love every video you make, so insightful and knowledgeable so thank you Alina❤️ I wanted to ask you about my situation. My sleep anxiety got triggered 2 months ago when my husband started having pretty bad health issues, this is when I found Dr Daniel, you and all the knowledge that comes with your videos and went back to sleeping normally again. I had one tiny speed bump but had no fear and slept well next day. Last night I was talking to my family member about how my husband is not able to sleep from stomach pain and her response was “that itself can cause psychosis “ , and that words felt like sharp knife went through my anxiety and haven’t slept most of the night worrying about if it is really true that sleepless nights can cause psychosis 😞 i would love to hear your opinion about this subject and would really appreciate your insight 🙏🏼

Perhaps this could be on “heard on line”. If sl please let me know.

Yesterday, in the NYT, there was an article about why we need our sleep. It stated that ‘possibly’ if we do not get at least 6 hrs/nt that dementia could result because the brain needs that time to “wash out the amyloid plaque that collects in the brain”. Certainly a factor here, unless you can refute.

I think i am no longer afraid of not sleeping or sleeping.. so the see saw of insomnia and somniphobia has shifted to extreme fear of tiredness like EXTREME. its the kind of tiredness that invokes a kind of anxiety that makes you think that you may possibly die from the sypmtoms and then you have a fear of having a stroke or seizure or dying from the kind of feelings you get from lack of sleep. just this deep fear that something is going to happen to you from this tiredness. Every night thats all I think about. How will I work, how will i go out and have a life, how will i travel how will i be in this relationship. Its no longer a fear of sleep rather the feelings of lack of sleep. Ive done two trips since this bout of insanely bad insomnia. one is just 45 mins away, jeez i was so anxious, and the next was a four hour drive and 2 hour boat ride. For both of this, although i was recovering to some extent, I was absolutley buggered on both. Just half dead the whole time, tired and falling apart everywhere I went. Could barely enjoy the food because I was so fucked. I have another one with the drive and boat ride coming next week and i dont know how thats going to be. Im already scared of being tired and not being able to do anything with my partner.. who by the way is a new relationship.. any advise would be really great. I wish i could video the bits of it and show it to you guys lol. I have started doing small exercises in the hopes it will help me to be stronger and not so weak when not getting deep sleep... what can I do for fear of tiredness.

I took my first trip off the mainland and funny story. I could sleep easily at the hotels and at the resorts but the issue was that I felt I was dead. I couldnt do anything in the day. My body was so sore and tired and weak, I could barely walk on the beach or up the stairs. I was exhausted and dizzy and anxious in the day because I felt so horrible. I have been going through a speedbump for the past month or so. I think my tiredness was caused from the long drive and then the long boat rides? I wonder if anyone else ever gets anxious when you are tired?

Question: I could phrase this in many ways, but how do I not hate or forgive insomnia itself? I think I realized that I can't really befriend nighttime wakefulness as I hate insomnia so much and what it did to my life. So whenever I'm awake which is often I just hate it so much. I understand the core principles of recovery but I think my hate towards insomnia is holding me back.

The lack of self kindness is what puts us on anxiety/insomnia journey anyway...

Facebook group really messed my mental up with the insomnia. Glad i left it

Cristian, your point about pressure really hit home, moved me to tears All of your insight videos are absolutely Bob on, as we in Lancashire, UK. Please keep going.

Great video, thankyou

I love the insight provided by the automatic subtitles: what keeps us awake is Hyperowls. Must be all that super-loud hooting 😊

Very good timing. I’ve been sleeping well but on a trip now. My mom passes out within two seconds and then it makes me feel anxious that I’m not sleeping. How do I overcome this anxiety? Whenever I share a room with someone, I feel uncomfortable when they’re sleeping and I’m not

Thank you, this is so helpful because I tend to practice self-kindness only when I'm in panic mode. The thing that really gives me pressure to sleep are the responsibilities I have towards the people close to me. How do you deal with this, aside from self-kindness?

I have started to really express to my family that after a sleepless night I just want to be alone. That is okay. I still love them but I need this. I only have a couple of these nights a month but that’s because I live a very simple life and am home a whole lot. When I have more plans, I struggle a bit more. And again…that’s okay. It’s so much more powerful to stop believing there is something wrong with me or that I shouldn’t have this issue. Acceptance has been HUGE!

I did the HRT rabbit hole. Only starting to "get it" now!

Thank you for sharing these insights, observations. The fact that you guys continue to share these informative videos, for free, to people struggling with insomnia is a huge credit to everyone involved at the Sleep Coach School. I'm pretty sure that you will have many future recovery stories to share as a result of the information, education and support you provide. Thank you for making my journey more bearable

You did a great job on explaining the Kindness with yourself….. very useful reminder, thank you 🙏

My problem is the night _before_ a trip -- I cant sleep because I'm worried that I will be tired the next day if I dont sleep, and that will ruin the trip. So I end up putting too much pressure on myself, and of course, good sleep doesn't come. The problem here is, my assumption was correct! I dont sleep and I DO feel crappy the next day. It does basically ruin the trip for me because I feel terrible all day. So how can I frame this differently when the thought that made me not sleep turns out to be true?

Thank you for this video. Your work is life changing for me. I am on my recovery way currently struggling with understanding self kindness and dealing with fear of not sleeping. I know I will get better. You give me hope

Thank you Alina for this video. Very helpful for me, I found few valuable tips there how to deal with being stressed when awake. Bless you for your good work 😊

Practical tip for those who want to use their phone over night. Get a piece of black tape to cover the time in the corner of your device, or go into clock settings and change the numerals from Arabic to Burmese or Khmer. If the time isn’t in Arabic numerals (1,2,3,4,5 etc) you won’t be able to interpret the time and therefor you can use your device totally ignorant of what time it is.

I Don't know What she's saying,But I Like the way she says it!!... :(