Coaching practices for Insomnia Sleep Log

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• When someone asks how I slept I genuinely can’t say
• I lie in bed for eight or nine hours and only actually sleep five of them, and the rest is just me staring at the ceiling
• I keep trying the obvious fixes
• It’s 2am and the clock has become a countdown
• I’m in bed nine hours and actually sleep maybe five, and the rest I just lie there doing the math on how wrecked tomorrow will be

Practices that may help

1. Keep a daily sleep diary
   Track sleep and wake times daily to reveal patterns and benchmark treatment progress.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
2. Calculate your sleep efficiency before starting
   Track your actual sleep time versus time in bed for one week — the gap is the starting point for restriction.
   Sleep Restriction Therapy
3. Learn the two-process model of sleep
   Understanding how sleep pressure and the circadian clock interact removes the mystery from why sleep is unpredictable.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
4. Challenge catastrophic thoughts about sleep
   Identify and test the beliefs that turn a bad night into a disaster story.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
5. Sleep restriction therapy
   Temporarily compress your time in bed to match how much you actually sleep, then expand it as efficiency improves.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
6. Apply dereflection to insomnia and sleep anxiety
   When you cannot sleep, stop trying to sleep and redirect attention to something you are genuinely curious about instead.
   Logotherapy: Dereflection
7. Set a restricted sleep window equal to your actual sleep time
   Limit time in bed to approximately your average actual sleep time — this is the restriction that starts the cure.
   Sleep Restriction Therapy
8. Offload cognitive load with a bedtime worry journal
   Write tomorrow’s to-do list and any intrusive worries before bed — externalized thoughts stop competing for attention at sleep onset.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
9. Use sleep hygiene as the foundation, not the cure
   Get the basics right (light, caffeine, temperature, schedule) but do not expect them alone to fix insomnia.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
10. Apply paradoxical intention to insomnia: try to stay awake
    When you cannot sleep, commit fully to staying awake — observe what happens.
    Logotherapy: Paradoxical Intention

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