You're sitting in front of your laptop, it’s been a crazy busy week. Your to-do list is longer than ever, the admin keeps piling up and you can’t even bring yourself to look at the emails in your inbox. How do you make room for all of this? You put more hours...
Sleep Mindset
Are You Too Perfect to Sleep? Perfectionism and Insomnia
Is perfectionism related to insomnia? The answer is yes, but not in the way you might expect. A lot of people think that perfectionism may be a result of trying to compensate for lack of sleep. They might be very 'particular' in order to prevent any negative...
The term Insomniac Makes It Harder To Recover
I don’t like the word ‘insomniac’. Why is that? Imagine a person says: I have insomnia. and then I am an insomniac. Do they actually ‘say’ the same thing? I don’t think so. What do these statements mean? There is a big difference in what those statements mean. As I...
Acceptance and Insomnia – Mortal Enemies
What is 'acceptance' in the context of insomnia? Acceptance is not resignation. It's not 'putting up with', either. Acceptance (as viewed through both mindfulness approaches and ACT) has two aims: Acceptance of things that are out of our control - things we like and...