Coaching practices for Waking Up at Night Worrying

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• The minute my head hits the pillow the worries flood in and I lie there for hours, then the lost sleep makes the next day’s anxiety even worse
• The second my head hits the pillow my mind starts up
• Every time I wake in the night I check the clock and immediately start the math
• By bedtime I’m already dreading another bad night, and the harder I try to force myself to sleep
• A worry pops up in the middle of something I’m trying to do and I feel like I have to deal with it right this second or I’ll lose it forever

Practices that may help

1. The Pre-Sleep Worry Buffer
   Use a 10-minute afternoon or early evening worry review to protect sleep from nighttime rumination.
   Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry
2. Schedule a worry time earlier in the day
   Contain bedtime worry by giving anxious thoughts a specific earlier window, then postponing them at night.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
3. Stop watching the clock during the night
   Remove or hide the clock to stop the "calculating how much sleep I have left" loop that activates the brain.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
4. Break the anxiety-about-sleep loop
   Interrupt the cycle where worrying about not sleeping becomes the main reason you can not sleep.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
5. Contain worry in a designated worry period
   Defer non-urgent worry to a fixed 20-minute window later in the day.
   The Worry Tree
6. Contain worry with a scheduled worry period
   Assign worry a 20-minute daily window — and redirect it there the rest of the day.
   Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD
7. 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
8. Challenge the beliefs that make insomnia self-perpetuating
   Identify and revise the catastrophic beliefs about sleep that amplify arousal at bedtime.
   Sleep Restriction Therapy
9. Worry stimulus control: confine worry to a designated time
   Schedule a 20-minute daily "worry period" and postpone all worry outside it.
   Worry Exposure, Made Practical
10. The Worry Log: Capturing and Categorizing Worries
    Write down each worry as it arises, then categorize it as solvable or hypothetical before the worry window.
    Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry

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