01/12/2025
For nearly 25 years my brain and nervous system were under stress.
This was nearly every day.
I was always nervous going places or talking to people, it stressed my body and my mind.
A lot of it came from losing my mother when I was 2.5 years old.
By 13, the insecurity had started to affect me.
My anxiety was always around not feeling safe.
It even affected me when my own kids were around that age.
Moments of dread if anything happened to Brighid.
Now I can rationalise it, because my brain is resilient.
But for many years it wasn’t and it affected my sleep switch.
Long periods of stress can overstimulate the brain, keeping it stuck in the high brain gears.
Research shows people with insomnia live in those high brain gears all the time.
So at night the brain doesn’t feel safe to switch off.
The body is exhausted but the mind won’t switch off.
Even lying in bed, the brain is still scanning for danger, even when there is none.
People think they’re overthinking or worrying too much.
But it’s deeper than that.
It becomes a habit.
A loop.
And the sleep switch is affected more than anything else.
The sleep switch only works when the brain feels safe enough to slow down…
…to drop into the lower brain gears where sleep actually happens.
If that doesn’t happen for years, the cycle becomes harder to break.
But once the brain starts regulating correctly again…
…the nervous system calms…
…the sense of safety returns…
…and the sleep switch finally works again.
You fall asleep easier.
You stop waking through the night.
Life gets easier.
This is exactly what I help people fix every day in my clinic…
…getting the brain out of the high gears so the sleep switch can work again.
There’s nothing wrong with you.
Your brain just hasn’t been getting the chance to switch off.
Once that changes… everything changes.
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