When your mind is full of worry, it can be difficult to fall asleep. Stress, anxiety, and worry can activate our brain and body's alert response, making it impossible to fall asleep and causing insomnia. In this video I teach a simple technique to turn off insomnia and get you back to sleep.
I come naturally to insomnia. My family is all light sleepers and has trouble staying asleep in the morning. But when I'm worried, I use the skill of gratitude to calm my brain and go back to sleep.
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My name is Emma McAdam. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist and have worked in a variety of change and growth settings since 2004. My experience includes juvenile corrections, adventure therapy programs, wilderness therapy programs, a eating disorder treatment center, a residential treatment center and I currently work in an outpatient therapy clinic.
In therapy, I use a combination of acceptance and commitment therapy, systems theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treat mental illness and other challenges we all face. faced in life. The ideas in my videos are frequently adapted from several sources. Many of these come from acceptance and commitment therapy, particularly the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection stem from the work of Stephen Porges (polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (somatic experiencing), Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose the direction of our lives.
And deeper than all of this, the gospel of Jesus Christ guides my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe
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