In this episode, we explore how fighting your thoughts makes insomnia worse and differentiate between suppressing thoughts and allowing them. We also discuss how the cognitive behavioral therapy tool, paradoxical intention, can help improve sleep.Chapters00:00 Mind in Overdrive02:38 Quiet Mind Not Required04:50 Suppression vs. Allowance07:05 Paradoxical Intention

Stop Fighting Your Mind and Sleep

Sleep for Executives is an episode about how high performers can finally fix their sleep without wrecking their schedule, productivity, or ambition.If you’re an executive, founder, leader, or high-responsibility professional who’s exhausted but wired at night… this episode is for you.In this episode, you’ll learn how chronic insomnia, night anxiety, and broken sleep patterns develop in high-stress leadership roles—and why willpower, supplements, and “sleep hacks” usually make things worse.Drawing from CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), sleep psychology, and real-world executive coaching, this episode explains:<ul><li>Why driven, high-IQ professionals are more prone to insomnia</li><li>How stress, cortisol, and performance pressure sabotage sleep</li><li>The hidden habits that keep executives stuck in bad sleep cycles</li><li>How to retrain your brain to feel safe sleeping again</li><li>Practical changes to your sleep routine, environment, and schedule that actually work</li><li>How to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer without medication</li></ul>This episode also includes a short calming wind-down segment designed to help your nervous system shift out of work mode and into sleep mode.This isn’t a meditation, and it’s not generic sleep advice. It’s a practical, compassionate guide to better sleep for executives, leaders, and high performers who want deep rest without sacrificing ambition.If you’re interested in executive sleep, insomnia relief, CBT-I, stress and sleep, night anxiety, sleep hygiene, and learning how to sleep again under real-world pressure—this episode is for you.Sleep for Executives Because high performance still requires real rest.

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Sleep for Executives is an episode about how high performers can finally fix their sleep without wrecking their schedule, productivity, or ambition. If you’re an executive, founder, leader, or high-responsibility professional who’s exhausted but wired at night… this episode is for you. In this episode, you’ll learn how chronic insomnia, night anxiety, and broken sleep patterns develop in high-stress leadership roles—and why willpower, supplements, and “sleep hacks” usually make things worse. Drawing from CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), sleep psychology, and real-world executive coaching, this episode explains:Why driven, high-IQ professionals are more prone to insomniaHow stress, cortisol, and performance pressure sabotage sleepThe hidden habits that keep executives stuck in bad sleep cyclesHow to retrain your brain to feel safe sleeping againPractical changes to your sleep routine, environment, and schedule that actually workHow to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer without medicationThis episode also includes a short calming wind-down segment designed to help your nervous system shift out of work mode and into sleep mode. This isn’t a meditation, and it’s not generic sleep advice. It’s a practical, compassionate guide to better sleep for executives, leaders, and high performers who want deep rest without sacrificing ambition. If you’re interested in executive sleep, insomnia relief, CBT-I, stress and sleep, night anxiety, sleep hygiene, and learning how to sleep again under real-world pressure—this episode is for you. Sleep for Executives Because high performance still requires real rest.

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