You LEARNED to Not Sleep: How You Can Repair Your Sleep for Good
The gold standard treatment for insomnia has nothing to do with supplements, sleep trackers, or white noise machines. It's cognitive behavioral therapy, and the basics of it are more accessible than most people realize.
Sleep drive, circadian rhythm, stimulus control, sleep consolidation: these aren't buzzwords. They're the actual levers. And most people suffering through bad sleep have never been handed them.
What you tell yourself at 2am feels more true than it is. Catastrophizing in the dark is a chemistry problem, not just a mindset one, and the adrenaline already in your bloodstream at that point doesn't care how many deep breaths you take. Knowing what's actually happening in your body changes what you do next.
Sleep is more like a cat than a task. The harder you chase it, the faster it runs, and most people have that exactly backwards.