Shannon that is absolutely wonderful to hear! You know insomnia took everything from me, 20 years of my life, divorce, depression, lost business living in a van, I became a ghost of a person because of it and there was so much shame attached to it. When I overcame it, it was only guilt that was left - how could I have let myself become like this? The reason why I started doing this was to help other people, for them, and as a way to give meaning to my own insomnia. Hearing you and other people say this has given me a way to let go of that guilt and know that I had insomnia for a good reason ( I hope this makes sense - I haven't explained it very well) I am so pleased you have overcome your insomnia and that you have got your life back. And thank you also from the bottom of my heart for telling letting me know! It's made me very happy! Joe

you continue to wake up, but you don't mind about it. You just feel relax and wait for sleep to come back. Just don't mind about it, don't check the clock too much

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@InsomniaTalks thanks so much! I've followed your sleep advice for the last few weeks and I am amazed that such simple suggestions have had such a huge impact. I can't thank you enough!

@@MaryBrigid11 Hi Mary, really happy to help! Yes people are often amazed how quickly this can start to work. If you think about other mental health concerns these can take years to see improvements. However, because insomnia is both physiological and anxiety/obsession/ control driven - if you can fix the physiological aspect (the brain taking on a learning an unhelpful pattern of sleep) which ca literally be done in weeks with the right behavioural changes (think about how badly people sleep after extreme jet lag, but they can start sleeping well again after only 1 week with the right behaviours) So by first fixing the physiological side of insomnia and rebuilding peoples pattern of sleep, you get a quick win, you learn there is nothing wrong with you. And then this gives people the confidence and motivation to tackle the other side of insomnia (the anxiety/obession and control) This side takes longer, but at least you've already seen good progress already and this gives people the motivation to keep going! Anyway I don't think I've explained this as well as I'd like - but it's such an important topic it deserves it's own vide, i'll make it!