Sleep Dynamic Therapy

Thanksgiving provided an opportunity to visit family and friends in my hometown and talk about my book at two bookstores, Reiter’s in D.C. and Borders Express in Silver Spring. A common recurring theme among those who attended was the desire to see sleep behaviors, good or bad, as normal. We call this perspective, “normalizing one’s sleep.” And, it is one of the greatest barriers to engaging in a thoughtful and honest self-appraisal of how your sleep might be affecting your health. In this instance, however, I was able to talk with several people about how one must move beyond this “normalizing” perspective to place a fresh set of eyes on one’s sleep problems, after which it is considerably easier to begin taking treatment steps to efficiently improve one’s sleep.