You Can Sleep Too!: Put insomnia to bed with the gold-standard treatment. I did. So can you.

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Sleep hygiene, hot baths, kiwi fruit, breathing techniques, acupuncture, counselling, supplements, sleeping tablets . . . Over twenty years, I tried it all. Nothing worked. The more I tried to force sleep, the more I fed my anxiety and obsession—and the more insomnia stripped from my life.

I can’t get up early as I can’t sleep at night. I can’t see my friends tonight. I can’t do the job I love. I can’t share a bed with my wife.

I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.

For two decades, slowly but surely, insomnia took over my life and stole my happiness. And then I found CBT-I. Everything changed. Every thought, every action, CBT-I had seen it all before. My insomnia was not unique. Your insomnia is not unique. It always boils down to two problems: sleep drive and hyperarousal.

By addressing both through behavior changes, sleep knowledge, and cognitive restructuring, I went from being somebody trying everything they could to make themself sleep to being somebody trying everything they could to stay awake. After overcoming my insomnia, I trained with with one of the world’s best sleep physicians so I could help you overcome yours.

In this book, I take you on my journey and share the gold-standard, evidence-based treatment so that You Can Sleep Too!