What to Do When You Can't Sleep
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when you just can’t sleep? Jeff tackles insomnia from a Biblical and spiritual perspective, exploring why sleepless nights are so common and what Scripture has to say about rest.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.0 | videos and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.0 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.7 | This is show 468, what to do when you can't sleep. |
| 0:33.7 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Jeff Kavans. Good to have you with me today and good to be with you. |
| 0:41.6 | You know on this show we talk about everything we can about discipleship, studying the Bible, really letting Christ live big in us, so that we can change the world along with Jesus, kind of cooperating with them. That's the |
| 0:56.7 | way we'll put it today. Well, sometimes in your life, I got to tell you this, you just can't sleep. |
| 1:04.0 | You know, life is going on, everything's going great, and all of a sudden you hit this bump in the |
| 1:08.2 | road, and for some reason you can't sleep. |
| 1:11.1 | You might even notice cycles in your life where you're fine for a month or so and then |
| 1:15.8 | you've got two or three nights where it's just really rocky and you don't know why. |
| 1:21.4 | And some people, they have problems for months and it really, really takes a toll on them. |
| 1:28.3 | So let's talk about that today, what to do when you can't sleep. |
| 1:32.2 | Let's look at some of the problems with sleeping and why people struggle with sleeping at |
| 1:38.1 | times. |
| 1:38.6 | You know, some people really have a problem and they got to go see a doctor and get some |
| 1:42.6 | kind of medication at least to help |
| 1:44.8 | them get through it. But in my years as a pastor for 12 years, years ago, in talking to people, |
| 1:52.1 | I found many times there were just things on their mind or things who were struggling with |
| 1:56.5 | or they had sin in their life. And we're going to talk about that and some of the solutions to it. |
| 2:02.9 | If you want the show notes, just send my name, text my name, rather, to the number 3-3-777. |
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