Help me improve my sleep
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Neuropsychologist Dr Harvey Jones interviews Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth about sleep as they try to cut through all the fads, devices and common advice to give you some practical science-based strategies to improve your sleep.
They talk about:
*how much sleep we need and how to work this out for ourselves, often without fancy technology.
*insomnia and how common it is.
*the most evidenced-based intervention for insomnia.
*what cognitive behaviour therapy for insomnia entails.
*the important factors that each sleep strategy targets.
They also go through several common sleep complaints. In doing so, they discuss the likely underlying mechanisms of each complaint and identify strategies that might be most helpful for addressing each complaint.
Damon finishes the podcast with his three key takeaways for helping people improve their sleep.
For a copy of Damon’s book, visit here: Deliberately Better Sleep.
You can also check out Damon’s website, where you will find a link to his online CBT-I course.
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