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How to Overcome Insomnia: Insights from Kathryn Pinkham of the Insomnia Clinic

The Happy Pear Podcast

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How to Get Back to Sleep When You Wake Up in the Middle of the Night

If your sleep drive is high, you should pretty much fall back to sleep. If you aren't doing those things then first of all I would use tackle those things. Are you going to bed too early? Are you in bed too long? Do you have a connection waking up? Looking at the time, everybody does that. We set this internal alarm clock that says, yeah, well done. You wake up at three o'clock for a wee tomorrow night. See here again, like we're trying to break these cycles. We don't need to know what time it is. When you get back into bed, the best thing to do, and I move away from ever trying to

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