After giving birth to her son, novelist Lara Williams feared she might never sleep again. So she turned to CBT-i, a radical and gruelling new therapy that rewired her relationship to sleep
My struggles with insomnia began in my teens. I remember earnestly, pathetically, telling an old history teacher: “If I am yawning, it is not because I am bored, it is because I can barely sleep.”
“Have you tried a warm bath?” she offered, in what was to be my first instance of well-intentioned but ultimately completely useless advice. I stare at the ceiling until the early hours of the morning, my heart beating so fast it is as if I am being hunted for game. A warm bath is not going to cut it!
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