How professional soccer player Naomi left debilitating insomnia (Talking Insomnia  

Love this video! Also a big win for me - been sleep deprived with sleep struggles so hesitated going to gym etc. but i still went and had a boss workout! Also worked through tough shifts with a ”it is what it is” mindset and decided not to add suffering to what already is. Proud of myself!

Thank you for this video.. I read the book already and I in the process of trusting myself and I will tell from now on that sleep drive will always win. We are all born with the capability of sleep. Thanks again

I liked this recovery story too. Gives me hope as I'm only three weeks into this recovery

Hey Daniel! Thanks for this video, it’s helped me to better understand the process of getting rid of insomnia once and for all. Wish you the best in your journey of reaching more and more people that will benefit from your teachings

This is an inspirational story and it's given me great hope. I was on sleeping pills for 11 years and decided 3 months ago to just quit them and it was the hardest decision of my life to do but I did it. I am still suffering with severe insomnia, but I refuse to take another sleeping pill. I'm now having to face my insomnia and it's so so hard to face because of all the terrible anxiety around it.

I really enjoyed listening to Naomis experience of overcoming insomnia. Ive watched many of the videos you have shared on your youtube and Facebook channel. Ive also just started reading NATTO (nearly finished the book). I do believe i have a good grasp of the teachings you impart. What resonated for me was Naomis comment that you need to live through the experience in order to get to the other side. Im somewhere on that journey. Ive just experienced four days of sleeping really well last week. Then on Friday, I experienced a night of next to no sleep. I was due to go out with a friend the following day and looking back, i truly believe this created some unconscious (and when i found myself wide awake during the night, conscious pressure to sleep - increased desire to sleep). I cancelled going out the following day and proceeded to beat myself up for not only not pushing through with my plans, but also frustrated with myself for somehow not being able to sleep. I completely understand the information in your book about not being able to control sleep, therefore why would /should we be self critical of our efforts to not sleep. Im also conscious of my desire not to lose the positive steps that had been made with regard to my sleep the previous four days and hey presto, success /regress. I slept very well on Saturday night, however ive been awake for the majority of last night. My aim today and moving forward is to accept this as part of my journey to recovery. That i may not sleep well tonight (or during subsequent nights), but to keep persevering. There is a wish or thought (or desire/goal) relating to, i wonder when it will finally all fall into place and im already trying to change this thought to, it will fall into place. It will just take time. Your natural sleep drive will always win (thank you Naomi). Im a CBT therapist and ive also done a Coaching course, which has added to my frustration that somehow i should be able to find my way out of this situation with relative ease. Of course, I fully appreciate how counter productive that thought is. Maybe doing a video of someone in my position that is very open to your methods and find themselves on the journey to recovery (but are still trying to negotiate accepting/befriending wakefulness) might be helpful for those people in similar positions, alongside stories of full recovery. You could then revisit the individual further down their journey (hopefully post recovery). Finally, many thanks for all the videos/podcasts/material you make available to people struggling with insomnia. It has helped me to understand how things fit together and has given me a sense of hope that i can get past my insomnia (and look to help others in their journey to recovery). Ian

Thank you for another good video! I am experiencing a really rough time right now. I have been binge watching if all of your videos and have signed up for your app. I’m really hoping I can get through this tough time.

Coach Daniel, this was a fantastic video. Your videos have helped me more than trazodone (which I am off of now), and talk therapy. Naomi’s story, like all of your guests’ stories, resonate with me and help me remember I am not broken or alone. My greatest struggle is making friends with wakefulness. Especially on a work night. I really need to work on this. ❤

Hello, Daniel! Your videos really helped get over my insomnia a few years back, but I have found that it has resurfaced again, mostly due to getting a new puppy. I eventually want to transition him to sleeping outside, but he’s too young and the temperatures are still slightly too cold at night. Because of that, he’s been sleeping in my bedroom. Being a puppy, he often whines and needs to be taken out at night. My anxiety stems from the fact that I don’t know when he’s going to do it. It’s like not knowing when your alarm clock is going to go off. This makes me extremely anxious and often prevents me from sleeping, sometimes even if the puppy is sleeping. If he wakes me up at 5am, I often I can’t go back to sleep no matter how hard I try. I often worry that if I don’t get enough sleep, I won’t be able to properly take care of and look after him during the day, or worse, that something might happen to him. I know I’m going to have to endure this for the next month or two, but I honestly don’t know how. I’ve only had him a little over a week, but it feels like it’s been months.

I empathize with this young woman. My insomnia (still ongoing) got so severe at one point that I would bolt awake with severe panic attacks, adrenaline flooding my body, every night for at least a year. I was in such agonizing distress from lack of sleep and the sheer terror that would build up each day about having to deal with it again that night. I did not know how I was going to make it another day, so I took two bottles of pills and ended up in a psychiatric ward. I was only there for 5 days (they should have kept me longer, because I didn't sleep in the hospital either), and my life was turned completely upside down after I got out, which made it worse. I didn't think it was possible. I have not slept without some type of medication in over 10 years. There is a reason why sleep torture was outlawed at the Geneva Convention. Because torture is exactly what it is. It is disabling. I do not want to be dependent on medication for the rest of my life, but I am too afraid of not being able to function or getting severely ill if I try to go a night without it. It's never a good time to experiment when you have adult responsibilities that you can't put on hold, even if it's to take care of yourself so that you can manage them.

Thank you for your story! I was doing better with my insomnia untill last week. The past 8 days I slept 2 hours a night average. Every night I think and hope that after all those terrible nights just one good night will come but it just doesn't. Last night I had a panic attack for the first time in over a year. I can't even go for a simple walk anymore it feels like. Is there still hope for me? It feels like this will be an ongoing struggle for the rest of my life :(

Hi Daniel do you have a video on tapering off medication for sleep?

Doctor Daniel please help I am running on a stretch of barely any sleep and my eyes are burning. I close my eyes feeling exhausted and ready for bed but I’m unable to fall asleep. Now the bed gives me hyperarosual all over again even though the hyperarosual calmed down a few days ago I just couldn’t sleep. I know if I wait or expect to sleep it won’t come. Before all this I used to close my eyes knowing I’ll fall asleep cause I had confidence but I don’t have any confidence in my ability to sleep anymore 😥 I can’t take this anymore it’s getting too much.

Hi Daniel. I read Set it and Forget It and This is Natto and I've seen all the playlist videos. I know I finished all the education and I have all the knowledge. Should I join the Insomnia Immunity program? or the app Bedtime program? What do you recommend? I still have issues .Thanks.

Daniel, I need some info on your books. I'm looking at purchasing This Is Natto, is this an updated version of Set It & Forget It? Or are they different. If so I should buy both of them for the full benefits? Thanks

Hi Naomi, loved hearing about your story. I play a professional level of soccer to. How’d u find playing even on night of no sleep, how’d u find u performed or were u able to perform fine. If so what’s some advice or tips u have for performing at a good level the next day even after getting no sleep the night before?

Hi Daniel! I can’t feel sleepy no matter how hard I try to be effortless. I can’t reach a point of drifting off to sleep. My insomnia seems to be getting worse and more difficult to get out of. I don’t think I can get out of this. It’s very hard to talk to myself about effortlessness while feeling brain fog (too tired to think). Any tips to induce sleepiness?

What happened to your insomnia insight playlist where you had all your videos in it?

Coach Daniel, i just wrote about the day my insomnia started which was 4 years ago , i wrote down why i couldn't sleep that night and i also remember i was able to sleep easily for more than 3 weeks after this incident but subconsciously thoughts were building everyday slowly what if i couldn't sleep, what if something like that repeats again and well it repeated one night and since then it's been a regular thing so writing my whole journey on those few papers i realized that when I don't care about next day I was actually able to sleep Now the thing is i feel like my brain has learnt to not sleep so how do i tackle this problem, I'm well aware now that I've the ability to sleep and i can sleep but what worries me is I can't stop myself becoming aware about whether i slept or not how do i stop that?

@Naomi: what did you do in the night when you decided to face your fears? Just lay in bed and let everything come? Or did you eat, watch a film? Did you go out of bed? What was your strategy? Thanks a lot.