Dr Shelby Harris | How to Overcome Insomnia.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Dr Shelby Harris (@sleepdocshelby) is a Clinical Psychologist who specialises in Behavioural Sleep Medicine who joins me on the podcast to talk about how to achieve a great night's sleep, how to find your way back from insomnia and disrupted sleep and how to make good quality sleep a priority without become boring. Her book The Women's Guide to Overcoming Insomnia - Get a Good Night's Sleep without Relying on Medication is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | Little things, like taking a shortcut through the park on your way to work each day can make a big difference |
| 0:16.0 | to your mental health. Find your little big thing |
| 0:27.0 | little big thing at every mind matters. Hello, hi and welcome to the Emmagon show, it's me, it's Emma, I'm your host |
| 0:44.5 | Emma Gonna Wardner, and I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Shelby Harris onto this episode of the |
| 0:49.4 | podcast. Now I have a question for you well several have you ever had trouble sleeping |
| 0:56.4 | Maybe you've gone through a spell of stress-related insomnia |
| 1:00.4 | Really struggled to get back on track after jet lag or just had a week or so or a few |
| 1:05.6 | nights in a row where your sleep has been really disrupted or poor and it's made you |
| 1:11.4 | feel rubbish during the day. |
| 1:13.4 | Well, Shelby is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in behavioral sleep medicine. |
| 1:19.2 | So she really is the ideal person to chat to about what's normal with sleep when there's an issue |
| 1:24.7 | how to create the best environment for good night's sleep and much more also |
| 1:29.0 | crucially how to dial it back from bad sleep to good sleep or better sleep at least. She's also written a book that the |
| 1:36.2 | women's guide to overcoming insomnia get a good night sleep without relying on |
| 1:40.1 | medication and I was really interested in the first instance to ask whether insomnia was more of a female |
| 1:45.6 | issue and also unpick the bit about not relying on medication. |
| 1:49.9 | Can you really achieve optimum sleep without a little bit of help. Apparently so. I found it |
| 1:56.3 | extremely comforting speaking to Shelby and also reading her book. Incidentally she |
| 2:01.2 | writes in a way that answers your questions as you have them which makes her like a real page turner and it's comforting for me because like a lot of people I've spoken to sleep is the first thing to go when I'm feeling stressed, have too much on my plate or |
| 2:14.6 | maybe I'm feeling run down and speaking to Shelby I was able to understand when a bad |
| 2:19.7 | night's sleep is completely normal and nothing to worry about and when it's something to have a little bit more of a think about. |
| 2:26.0 | It also really flagged up to me how little effort I actually put into getting a good night's sleep, |
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