Tess’s Reviews > The Sleep Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night > Status Update

Actually a very practical book. I like the gentle, iterative approach to addressing insomnia. And the view he espouses that there are different categories of insomnia and you can get increasingly restful sleep without having cured your insomnia completely. Definitely a much more helpful perspective than the black-and-white one I have foolishly had for a long time - that I either get good sleep or I don't.

I see a parallel with Internal Family Systems where the person (suffering) lovingly holds space for unwanted internal experiences (or “parts”) in order to resolve them. “Parts” must not feel you want to get rid of them for their true resolution. Similarly, you must shift from seeing barriers to sleep as “barriers”. It’s the problem-solving approach you take to unwanted feelings or events that make them a bigger prob.