I’ve recently came up with an analogy that that can make things a bit easier on the recovery path (at least I hope so). I’m going to share it with you and will appreciate your feedback on whether it made sense or not 🙂. As we get on the journey of learning and facing the fear around insomnia we get somewhat obsessed with the correctness of our actions. We start believing that in order to get sleep back we need to stick to something uncompromisingly, that errors shouldn’t happen, we shouldn’t slip into to panicky state and google insomnia cures or that we can’t make wrong choices from now on. But yet we do make choices that might not be ideal, we do slip into old behaviours every now and then. If it is something that literally everyone falls for (from what I observe), can we normalize errors? Can we rethink them? Can we make them serve us?
I love this analogy. It really cements the idea that we have no need to be disappointed or critical of ourselves if we go back to old habits.