Vanessa Hill

Therapy is actually the gold standard recommended treatment by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine to help with sleep issues.

And there's a lot to unpack there.

Like a lot of people don't want to go to sleep therapy.

They just want to like buy some robotic pillow that might help them fall asleep a few minutes faster, right?

Except it's just interesting how we assume that we need to do more to help us sleep rather than less.

So when people have trouble sleeping, there's almost this consumerist mindset that if we just buy one more thing, it will help solve the problem.

So if I'm having trouble falling asleep or if I wake up overnight, should I buy a $4,000 pod that cools my bed that I can put on my mattress and gives me all of these statistics in the morning?

Or should I...

take more time off work, take time to de-stress, like actually do less in our lives in a way that could help with personal stress or anxiety.

That's what I mean.

Yeah.

Yeah, it does.

And I will just give a little plug for a type of therapy called CBTI, which is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.

Many people won't have heard it, but it is the number one recommended treatment for people who have trouble falling asleep, who wake up during the night.

It's covered by health insurance.

And it is really effective.

It has very high long-term effects, but a lot of people don't know about it because it's a six-week program that you have to do and not a pill that you can take or a blanket that you can buy.

And I think that for some of the other things that can help people fall asleep, I don't want to discount those.

You know, if people...

drinking a certain type of tea or using a certain type of blanket or doing these things and they feel like it's helping them fall asleep and they're not waking up overnight, great.