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Sunday Insider - Edition #58
Mike Blankenship
June 30, 2024
The Daily Habit For Doers
Here’s some stuff that inspired us this last week.
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Listen: IMPROVING YOUR SELF WORTH | how to stop feeling "not good enough" 🤍 healing & self love
listen to this episode if you've been or HAVE struggled with feeling not good enough or not seeing your worth! i'm here to tell you everything you can do to push away these negative thoughts and remind you why you are more than worthy of everything you've ever dreamed of and to not let expectations, others, or even perfectionism make you feel anything less than enough 💚
Read: This Is The Emotionally Intelligent Way To Communicate With Kids
“But I’m the parent! They should obey!” Very true but you can win this war with many casualties or few casualties. It can take minutes or it can take hours. Up to you, Jefe. The dictatorial communication strategy doesn’t usually get parents what they want. It just makes your adolescent chaos magnet more difficult to deal with. You don’t have to give in to their whims, but you do need to listen a bit more if you want this to go smoothly.
So we’re going to cover the two big challenges parents face with teens: what to do when they flip out and what to do when you need them to accomplish something.
Watch: How to Fall Asleep Faster: CBT-Insomnia Treatment
If you were to ask someone, “What’s causing your insomnia?” they might say something like: “my stress, anxiety, my brain won’t shut off”, maybe they think it’s their cat waking them up or they drank too much coffee or they watched a scary movie before bed.
And granted, all of these things can mess with your sleep for a night or two, or more, but they aren’t the thing that causes chronic insomnia. In most cases chronic insomnia is caused by 1 bad habit where you accidentally trained your brain not to sleep.
Staying in bed awake. This is the worst thing you can do for your insomnia.
And it’s the key to one of the most effective treatments for insomnia, CBT-I, an evidence based treatment for insomnia that has shown up to 80% effectiveness at relieving insomnia.
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