Sleep Through Insomnia – by Dr. Brandon Peters

First, what this is not: a guide to get better sleep tonight.

Rather, what it is: a guide to get better sleep in the near future (six weeks).

The way it delivers this is primarily Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), in 6 weekly lessons, each divided into 3 activities:

1. Reflection
2. Education
3. Setting goals

Now, all parts are important, but we’d say the biggest value here is in the education segment, in part because it helps the reader understand why the reflection is important, and how to usefully set the goals.

“Reflection” may sound quite wishy-washy, but in fact it is very science-based, with questions as prompts, which effectively amount to the “gathering data” part of science.

“Setting goals”, for its part, is intended to be a progressive, step-by-step approach to get you to where you want to be with your sleep.

The style is instructional pop-science, with everything made easy to understand. There are an abundance of scientific references for those who wish to delve further, and sometimes he does go into more neurological detail than a book written by a psychologist might (Dr. Peters being a medical doctor, board-certified in neurology and sleep medicine, and with extensive training in CBT-I).

Bottom line: if you’d like to sleep better and you have the will to commit to a 6-week program (which will not ask anything arduous of you, but you will need to show up for it and do the things), then this book can give you a much better long-term fix than telling you to change your sheets and put your phone away.

Click here to check out Sleep Through Insomnia, and sleep easy!