Dr. Sue McCurry
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first heard Jul 2026
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And this just becomes one more piece I think that's that's laid up on it and and we can certainly point to lots of
things in the popular press and and in the scientific literature and in books and
in podcasts that are that are telling people you must sleep more.
But the problem with that
is what I said at the start, you you can't make yourself sleep.
Sleep is not like a light switch that you can turn off when you want and back on when you want.
I I joke with many of my clients that come in that
They
I, like a Jedi master, have some magic trick that I will teach them that will allow them to go to sleep on command, and I have to start disabusing them of that belief immediately because it's just not the case.
So they have to find ways to
Sort of like the surfer.
who gets ready to surf, puts on the wetsuit and picks the right day and the right beach and the right time and gasses up the car and the boards all waxed and gets out there and is standing ready to surf, but you have no control over when the waves come in.
And that's what we're doing with C B T I is we're trying to get everything light up so people's habits and
beliefs and attitudes and environments are aligned so to support healthy sleep.
And to get people so they are not freaked out if they have a difficult night.
Because being anxious.
and all aroused cognitively and physically is not going to help you sleep.
I put these pieces together to get them ready to sleep, but in the end.
They just have to wait for their body to go back to sleep.
They can't make 'em do it.
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