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The Sleepy You Course - How To Move From Sleepless Nights To Deep Rest

This course is all about being kind to yourself as you notice habit energy that doesn't serve you well and keeps you from experiencing Sleepy You. As you learn to notice and begin to let go of this old habit energy you will have space to practice simple techniques that will help you to better prepare for sleep and to cope better when you have a restless night.

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Meet your Teacher

Dee Hennessy

Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Dee is a specialist in corporate Mindful Leadership. Working internationally from Ireland, Dee supports over busy, hyper-connected 21st-century humans to deepen their capacity to pause, to rest, to prevent or recover from burnout, and to blossom. Dee has an MSc in Mindfulness-based Interventions from UCD Ireland, & specialist post-grad training in Spiritual Companioning, Wisdom Supervision & Trauma Informed Online Facilitation. Dee has developed two gold standard programs, Inner Resilience Leadership Programme (IRL) for teams and organizations, and Blossom, for women leaders who want to develop exquisite self-care and resilient leadership skills.

5 Days

482 students

4.8 stars

8 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Plan Ahead

We talk about leaving our worries at the bedroom door but this is easier said than done. In this lesson, I teach a specific technique of planning ahead which will help you to let go of the worries about what is outside of your control and to make a plan to address the things that you can change. No magic here, no instant solution. It will take a little time of gentle practice for this technique to deliver fruit - but it will

Lesson 2

When Letting It Go Isn't That Simple

Sometimes we need a little extra help - when the gremlins keep on coming after our heads have hit the pillow. In this lesson I teach a couple of very simple practices for moving from the head to the body. As you practice these and make them your own you will begin to build the muscle of creating the relaxation response when you most need it.

Lesson 3

What To Do When You Are In Bed Awake And Sleepy You Is Far Away

In this lesson, I teach three simple practices for when the mind is very busy and you are wide awake in the middle of the night. I want you to choose whichever of these practices most resonates with you and to commit to this. Become very familiar with it and make it your go-to response in times of ongoing wakefulness. It will work on you and you will begin to replace the wakefulness with your ability to connect with the parasympathetic nervous system - flooding the body with helpful calming hormones.

Lesson 4

Retraining Your Brain - Recovering Your Natural Ability To Relax

In this lesson, we look at some often unconscious daily habits that can make a big difference to how we sleep. Gentle reminders of how we can retrain our brain to prepare better for a night of relaxation and sleep by bringing some small changes to some of our daily habits. Please be aware that you can start with making one small change - no need to focus on a whole range of changes. Small, simple steps taken with oodles of self-compassion are all you need to retrain your brain. As your brain lays down these small new neural pathways it will remember again to relax and to to calm your body so that you can more easily settle into sleep. If you have any difficulty deciding what small action is for you or how to commit to a new habit come to the course classroom and we can share.

Lesson 5

Meditation For Sleep

You might like to use this meditation every night for a period of time to help you to uncover Sleepy You. Our brains love a single focus and our brain loves repetition or ritual. So developing the habit of doing this practise ( until you are able to internalise your own version) will really support your brain to get the idea that this is Sleepy You time.

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