Is journalling effective to help you fall sleep and sleep through the night easier?  | Sleep Coach Q&A

It's always best to watch the entire video so I can walk you through the topic of today’s video through the step-by-step approach I use in my sleep coaching practice helping clients overcome their long-term insomnia and sleep problems.

But here are some chapters for you:

00:00 Introduction to finding out if journalling type practices can help you fall asleep or sleep through the night easier?

01:28 Teaching Sleep Skills for Life

02:40 The timing of your journalling practice in relation to your sleep time

04:44 Is the type of journalling practice applicable to your sleep problems 

09:29 The expectation of what you'll get out of your journalling practice

11:56 Conclusions to journalling practices to help you fall asleep and sleep through the night easier

Journalling type practices are often recommended for sleep and insomnia problems. I also get questions about journalling from clients on a regular basis. So is journalling an effective way to help yourself fall asleep easily and sleep through the night without wakings?

Today's Sleep Q&A video is a little different from the usually ones where I share a conversation I had with a client, but I still wanted to tell you how journalling for sleep improvements might be applicable for you. The reason for this format is because there are many different types of journalling tips and ideas and formats, so it’s important that you pick something that it’s appropriate for your situation.

The types of journalling practices very depending on the purposes of the journalling and what outcomes you might want to see from your practice. There is a way to journal to clear your mind, a way to journal to process emotions, a way to even sleep journal to capture things about your current situation.

And the most important thing I always talk to clients about is that you have to pick the best journalling practice for what is showing up in relation to your long-term insomnia and sleep problems.

If you just pick something but even after you practiced it daily or frequently enough for a couple weeks and you see no impact on your ability to decrease the behaviour that you want to tame, then it’s likely that the journalling practice is not applicable or that it’s not the only thing you need. 

Overcoming long-term insomnia and sleep problems require combination of tools and techniques. So think of any journalling or writing type practice as part of the plan, not the only thing that’s needed.

Of course, if you have any question about the things I mentioned in this video, feel free to reach out. 

Beatrix