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Is Your Bedtime Routine Feeding Your Sleep Anxiety?

If your bedtime routine feels increasingly complicated or stressful, it may be fuelling sleep anxiety. This post explores how well-intentioned routines can backfire, why trying harder often makes sleep more elusive and how a gentler, CBT-informed approach can help ease bedtime anxiety and restore rest.

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Why Anxiety Stops You Sleeping

When anxiety shows up at night, it can feel impossible to rest, even when you’re utterly exhausted. Racing thoughts, a wired body and a sense of dread around bedtime are all signs that your nervous system is stuck on high alert. This post explores why anxiety so often stops us sleeping, why it feels worse after dark and lists some gentle and practical ways to calm anxiety at bedtime.

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CBT vs Hypnotherapy for Insomnia

When people search for help with sleep, they’re often left considering whether to choose between CBT or hypnotherapy. In reality, they work best together. This post explores how CBT provides clarity and structure for insomnia, while hypnotherapy helps the body and nervous system absorb change more deeply, making better sleep easier and more sustainable.

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How Hypnotherapy Can Help with Insomnia

Hypnotherapy for insomnia isn’t about losing control or being “put under.” It’s about helping a busy, over-alert nervous system settle so sleep can happen naturally again. This post explains how hypnotherapy works for sleep, clears up common misconceptions and explores why personalised sessions are far more effective than generic sleep hypnosis videos.

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NHS Versus Private Sleep Therapy

Wondering how to access sleep therapy in the UK? This post breaks down private vs NHS options. It outlines how to access NHS sleep therapy, how much private sleep therapy costs and how NHS and private treatment compare in their availability and approaches.

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What Is Sleep Anxiety

Sleep anxiety can feel like your mind is on high alert at night, racing through thoughts you can’t switch off. You’re not alone. This is a common, understandable response of the nervous system. Learn why it happens, how it makes sleep elusive and what research-backed approaches like CBT can do to help you reclaim your sleep.

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How CBT Improves Sleep

CBT is now considered the first-line treatment for insomnia by the medical community. Read on to explore why it works so well for sleep, how it reduces night-time anxiety, and how it might help you move past ongoing sleep struggles.

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Sleep Therapy Explained

This post explores how sleep therapy can help with insomnia, sleep anxiety and night-time worry. It explains the mental and physical factors that keep people from resting, how techniques from CBT and hypnotherapy work together, and what makes this approach effective for improving sleep and overall wellbeing.

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Tired Versus Sleepy

Ever felt completely worn out but still wide awake? The key to better rest is knowing the difference between tired and sleepy. Tiredness is exhaustion; sleepiness is your brain’s signal that it’s ready for rest. Learn how adenosine, melatonin and your circadian rhythm work together to help you sleep naturally.

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