When is a Sleep Coach the Solution for Insomnia?

When do you know if a sleep coach is the solution for your insomnia? Let's begin by defining insomnia. Insomnia can be characterized by the inability to get to sleep, stay asleep, or both. Insomnia is poor quality and very unsatisfying sleep. It's duration can be short lived or transient, meaning that it lasts for a few days or even up to a month or it can go on for years - then it's classified as chronic. Your nights can be overwhelmed with one or more countless wake-up events. Often you get up in the morning totally restless and groggy feeling like you've not slept at all.

Daytime is often challenging, particularly mid-day, when you feel an immense energy drain. You may feel like you to need to lie down, if even for 15 minutes. You may be subsisting on coffee, colas and caffeine-laced beverages to help you stay awake. Little do you know that these caffeine beverages often have half-lives that can affect and stimulate your system for up to 20 hours after their consumption, thereby causing night-time wakefulness. And then the process begins all over again.

Sleep and your sleep routine is a habit, just like many other routines in our lives. The NSF (National Sleep Foundation), says there are at least 50 - 70% of you who have insomnia. This epidemic of insomnia is witnessed by the number of sleep-aides found on a pharmacy shelves. These aides may work for a while, but then they become less effective to put you asleep, or keep you asleep. Wouldn't it be nice just to do this 'sleep thing' on your own - without trying? Babies don't try to go to sleep - they just fall asleep naturally. Something happened along the way from being babies to being adults. We developed unhealthy sleep habits.