It's Within

Therapist Shares How to Deal with Stress & Anxiety For the Best Sleep (ft. Emma McAdam)

Jun 12, 2024

Therapist Emma McAdam discusses how stress and anxiety impact sleep, offering strategies like cognitive behavioral therapy to address intrusive thoughts. Topics include defining emotions, managing stress throughout the day, improving sleep quality through relaxation, and techniques like scheduled worry for handling stress effectively.

35:30

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Emma McAdam

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Quick takeaways

Understanding stress responses helps manage stress and anxiety effectively for improved sleep quality.

Differentiating between stress and anxiety and addressing them with mindfulness and emotional awareness can enhance mental well-being and sleep.

Deep dives

Understanding the Importance of Quality Sleep

Quality sleep is essential for feeling well-rested and energized. Different individuals require varying amounts of sleep, with factors like personal energy levels playing a role. Quality sleep imparts a sense of readiness to take on the challenges of the day. Stress, anxiety, screens, lack of physical activity, and improper bedtime routines can disrupt sleep patterns.

Intro

2min

Factors Impacting Sleep and Strategies to Reduce Stress

4min

Improving Sleep Quality through Acceptance and Relaxation

20min

Managing Stress and Anxiety through Scheduled Worry

4min

Exploring Safety, Emotions, and Restoring a Sense of Security

6min

In this episode, I talk to Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family therapist. She also creates content on her channel ‘Therapy in a Nutshell’, where her mission is to make mental health more accessible to people like you and me.

I was really excited to chat with Emma because I realized a lot of what we face when it comes to achieving or not achieving quality rest, comes down to our minds. Often, we’re battling emotions of fear, anxiety, stress, and sometimes, all the above. So it’s impossible to almost switch off these thoughts that are racing around our heads, by the time it’s time we should be peacefully in bed asleep.

In our discussion, Emma helps to define different types of feelings and emotions we commonly face throughout our busy days, the primary causes of stress and anxiety, and then how we can resolve these challenges that can lead to insomnia through cognitive behavioral therapy.

Find more from Emma:

Break the Anxiety Cycle Course courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills

Course-How to Process Emotions courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing/?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=YouTube

Mental Health Courses courses.therapyinanutshell.com/store

Website therapyinanutshell.com

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