Hello sleep the science and art of overcoming insomnia without medications
"Hello Sleep is a practical and compassionate guide to having a better relationship with sleep and overcoming insomnia from Jade Wu, an experienced expert in behavioral sleep medicine. For many people who have trouble sleeping, each night is an anxious odyssey where getting a good night's sleep feel...
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New York :
St. Martin's Essentials,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Sleep Is a friend, not an engineering problem
- Part I Get to know your sleep. What does healthy sleep look like?
- What is insomnia and how did I get it?
- Getting ready for your hello sleep journey
- Part II The big reset. The empty piggy bank: why you can't fall (or stay) asleep
- The drooling dog: why your brain turns "on" at night
- Let there be light: the real answers to fatigue (hint: it's not more sleep)
- The mental litter box and other daytime skills for quieting a racing mind at night
- Part III Going deeper into the relationship. The self-fulfilling prophecy: how your thoughts about insomnia feed insomnia
- Just sleep, dammit! Why insomnia thrives on sleep effort and how to let it go
- Trusting sleep: how to get off sleep medications
- Tying up loose ends: the facts on screens, coffee, and other sleep hygiene topics
- Looking back, planning ahead: how to maintain your gains, get through rough patches, and keep a lifelong healthy relationship with sleep
- Part IV Changes and challenges in your relationship with sleep. Hello hormones! Sleep during pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause
- The golden years: how will sleep change as you get older?
- Other medical and psychiatric conditions that affect sleep
- Other sleep hurdles: when insomnia is not the only sleep disorder you have
- Parting words.
