Ep078: Chase Dreams, Not Sleep -With Sondra Kornblatt

 
 

OVERVIEW

When you hear the word sleep it sounds very easy to do, especially when you are feeling tired or lazy. But not for those people who are suffering from sleep problems like insomnia. For them, sleep sometimes feels impossible to achieve. Chasing sleep can often lead to frustrations. It is like your body really wanted to sleep and take a rest but your mind is too alive to do so. Is there a way to make sleep be in your favor? If you are one of those people who keeps on running after sleep this episode fits you perfectly.

For this week’s episode, I had a wonderful conversation with Sondra Kornblatt. She is a certified sleep coach and an author of books about sleep, brain function, and energy. She is also the founder of Restful Insomnia a website that aims to help people suffering from stress and struggling to have the deep rest that they deserve. In this episode, Sondra will explain why it is important to just allow sleep to happen instead of monitoring your sleep. She will also share her own experience and struggles of having chronic insomnia and what she did to overcome it. Always remember that the only thing that we should chase is our dream, not sleep.


WHAT WILL WE LEARN

  • 00:50 Sondra's personal experience of chronic insomnia and finding a way to help other people that are facing sleep problems

  • 02:12 What is deep rest  

  • 03:45 Stop chasing sleep: Sleep is about letting go   

  • 05:18 Waking up in the middle of the night: How to avoid it

  • 07:05 How to relax your mind to have a better sleep at night

  • 10:53 Mind and body wisdom: Why it should be balanced

  • 12:33 What is the difference between rest and sleep

  • 13:46 The importance of rest to our body, mind, and emotions

  • 15:16 Just allow sleep to happen 

  • 16:55 The connection between stress and sleep

  • 18:22 How to deal with anxiety 

  • 21:32 Sondra's advice to people who feel stress and experiencing sleep problems

  • 23:35 Continue doing the same path: Don't get frustrated 

  • 26:46 Other tools and techniques Sondra tried to have a night of better sleep and rest

  • 29:09 Gratitude: Why it is important 


TODAY’S GUEST

Sondra Kornblatt helps people with stress and sleep issues who want to get the rest they need and heal what’s underneath. As a personal and sleep coach, she guides clients to rest into their true self, so they are more centered during the day and welcome sleep at night. Through her own journey in insomnia and studies, she developed the 7 Pathways to Rest, which change relationships to body, mind, emotions, and self. She uses disciplines such as somatic healing, visualization, yoga, and hypnosis, as well as her own tools that have helped thousands. Sondra has spoken at Microsoft, Seattle Counselors’ Association, and many podcasts. Learn more at her website, RestfulInsomnia.com.

“Sleep is a wonderful mystery it is an amazing thing. And I feel very grateful that I can sleep, and just really looking at ways to help more people sleep gives me a lot of joy.”

— Sondra Kornblatt

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