Jenny Taitz
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 30 Mar
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Again, like there's these things out there that a lot of people don't know about and they think that they need to do these really expensive things or things that are very mysterious.
To quote a mentor of mine that taught this CBT for insomnia class, it's a problem to be awake when reason sleeps.
An interesting thing in a study on rumination was when people are asked to talk about something that really upset them, if 50% of the people have the opportunity to listen to researchers eavesdropping outside the door, those people stop ruminating, like literally having some sort of distraction. So some sort of distraction... Could help if the book on tape on Audible isn't doing it for you.
Have you tried like a body scan? Body scan is I could like literally send my breath to all my left toes and really focusing on the breath reaching my toes.
Yeah. And then you move up through your whole body. And there's progressive muscle relaxation where you tense and release. Can these things take a lot of your focus? And they're very sedating. Like I am energized and in trainings where you pair up and practice doing the body scan on each other. I'm like snoring. I
because it's tedious too you start at like the top of your head and then you need to like your right eye lid it's super focused and it's super relaxing and i also find i like to do the slow breathing the five in five out and sometimes if i don't get to it during the day i try to do it at night and i can never do the 20 minutes i intend because i pass out probably in like seven minutes so that's also an option the slow breathing there's actually a
You're doing all the right things to even just realize like you're an emotion mind. The content is relevant. Have you tried CBT for insomnia?
CBT for insomnia works as well as sleep medication for people that have a hard time falling asleep or staying asleep. And so you kind of calculate how many hours are you in bed? How many hours are you in bed?
Let's do trying to sleep.
How many hours are you actually sleeping?
Okay. So CBT for insomnia. And again, this is just like a short version. And there's apps for people that are listening like CBTI. It's like a free VA app that works well.
Yeah. So basically you pick your wake time. Like what time do you want to wake up? 6.40. So you set your wake time, and that does not change. There's no snooze. You pick your wake time, and then you go to bed at about the same time that you've been typically averaging sleep. So let's say you've been sleeping six hours, so you go to bed at 12.40.
Then you wake up at 6.40, and then that creates kind of a drive for sleep because you need a certain level of homeostatic drive for sleep because a lot of times what we do is like, oh my gosh, I couldn't fall asleep last night. Let's go to bed early tonight. And then like hit snooze.
And those two things are a problem because it's almost like jet lag. You need to be primed for sleep. So then you get the six hours. Then once you're sleeping 90% of the time, you can add in 20 minutes after like several days. But I don't know if you've had this, but I've had this thing where I feel like, oh, I'm so tired. I didn't sleep well. And then I start canceling things.
Like I cancel a gym class I'm supposed to go to in the morning. And then the whole day is like set up for failure. Yeah. Sleep is a huge buffer. I don't want to understate that, especially if you're chronically not sleeping enough. Really hard to do any of the things if you're under sleeping.
But it's like, okay, so if I get up when I feel underslept and start running at Barry's Boot Camp, I will have a better day and then sleep better the next night.
Yeah. I ran the marathon a number of years ago and the coach that I was working with, cause I did it postpartum and I really needed a coach. He was like, just be prepared that you will not sleep that night. Cause you have to start getting a Dodger stadium at like four in the morning. He's like, it's fine to not sleep. And I was like, how am I going to do it?
He's like, no one sleeps the night of the marathon. I'm like, if you could run a marathon on no sleep, like you can kind of do most things with no sleep.
Or like be functional at work or as a person.
Yeah, we do. It's good. It's hopeful.
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