Trauma’s Insomnia: A Nervous System Perspective
Trauma-related insomnia isn’t about doing sleep “wrong.” It’s your nervous system staying on alert, rest arrives only when your body feels safe enough to stand down.
What do effective trauma treatments have in common? They hold the memory live while taxing working memory, helping the charge finally update instead of just be managed.
Why insight alone does not stop old reactions, and how trauma patterns change when the encoded sequence beneath the story is updated.
Why “why” often shuts people down, and how better questions can move people from defense and blame toward clarity, agency, and real change.
Why lasting change is not mindset work, but brain-change work. Explore how affective memory, belief, boundary, and behaviour shape the architecture of change.