| Description |
viii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: Sleep is a friend, not an engineering problem -- Part I. Get to know your sleep -- What does healthy sleep look like? -- What is insomnia and how did I get it? -- Getting ready for your Hello Sleep journey -- Part II. The big reset -- The empty piggy bank: why you can't fall (or stay) asleep -- The drooling dog: why your brain turns "on" at night -- Let there be light: the real answers to fatigue (Hint: it's not more sleep) -- The mental litter box and other daytime skills for quieting a racing mind at night -- Part III. Going deeper into the relationship -- The self-fulfilling prophecy: how your thoughts about insomnia feed insomnia -- Just sleep, dammit! Why insomnia thrives on sleep effort and how to let it go -- Trusting sleep: how to get off sleep medications -- Tying up loose ends: the facts on screens, coffee, and other sleep hygiene topics -- Looking back, planning ahead: how to maintain your gains, get through rough patches, and keep a lifelong healthy relationship with sleep -- Part IV. Changes and challenges in your relationship with sleep -- Hello hormones! Sleep during pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause -- The golden years: how will sleep change as you get older? -- Other medical and psychiatric conditions that affect sleep -- Other sleep hurdles: when insomnia is not the only sleep disorder you have. |
| Summary |
"Hello Sleep is a practical and compassionate guide to having a better relationship with sleep and overcoming insomnia from Jade Wu, an experienced expert in behavioral sleep medicine. For many people who have trouble sleeping, each night is an anxious odyssey where getting a good night's sleep feels like a battle to win rather than a basic biologic process. Hello Sleep is a guide for people with insomnia to help them shift their relationship with sleep, so that it stops being a battle and starts being enjoyable and natural again. It is a practical, self-guided tour through evidence-based interventions for chronic insomnia, including cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), phototherapy, chronotherapy, mindfulness-based approaches, and medication tapering. Jade Wu is a behavioral sleep medicine specialist and researcher who has helped hundreds of patients over a period of ten years. She provides in-depth but down-to-earth scientific explanations of how sleep and insomnia work; anecdotes about real patients' experiences with overcoming insomnia; rationale for why the evidence-based interventions help; and tips for how to problem-solve common pitfalls, along with tailored recommendations for special circumstances (e.g., pregnancy/postpartum, menopause, chronic pain, depression, older adults etc.). Wu's practical recommendations support a philosophical theme: Sleep is a friend, and it's the nurturing of our relationship with this friend--rather than an anxious nightly battle--that will give us sustainable sleep health. Hello Sleep is not a rigid set of rules or a one-size-fits-all approach. Wu believes this can make things worse for those with insomnia issues, making what was once easy and intuitive into something effortful and elusive. Instead, this book treats insomniacs with respect, by giving them knowledge and empowering them to trust themselves and their own sleep"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Sleep -- Popular works.
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Sleep disorders -- Popular works.
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| ISBN |
9781250828408 (hardcover) |
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