Regulate & Rewire: An Anxiety & Depression Podcast

Sleep Anxiety: What To Actually Do About It (Part 2)


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In Part 2 of this sleep anxiety series, Amanda gets practical. She breaks down exactly what to do when you can't fall asleep, what to do when you wake up in the middle of the night, and offers a full toolkit of cognitive, environmental, and somatic practices that shift the conditions for sleep over time. If Part 1 was the understanding, this is the application.

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3 Takeaways:

  1. You can't force sleep, but you can build better conditions for it. 
  2. The middle-of-the-night wake-up needs a different response than lying there fighting it. Sit up, name the state, meet the sensation, reach for breathwork over your phone, and get up if you're still activated after 20-30 minutes. Every regulated response starts to undo the old pattern.
  3. Your daytime is the preparation for your nighttime. Morning sunlight, consistent wake time, movement, processing stress before it accumulates — none of this feels like sleep hygiene but all of it is.

CLICK HERE for the full show notes, resources, and 3 tangible takeaways!

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