Your Sleep Questions, Answered | Donn Posner
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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In today's episode, Dr. Donn Posner proposes a whole new way of thinking about sleep. First, he normalizes the sleep problems many of us experience. If you're sleeping poorly right now, he says, don't freak out; it's natural and normal. Second, he has a bunch of tips for how to deal with insomnia, some of which you may have never heard before.
Dr. Donn Posner is one of the leaders in the field of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for insomnia. Dr. Posner is the Founder and President of Sleepwell Consultants, and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
In this episode we talk about:
- The difference between chronic and acute insomnia
- How we can adapt to things that can mess up our sleep, like remote work
- Sub-chronic sleep conditions
- What to do if we're experiencing acute insomnia so that it doesn't become chronic insomnia
- The importance of structure when it comes to good sleep
- What social jet lag is
- Dr. Posner's take on napping
- Why wake time is so important when it comes to good sleep
- Why we shouldn't try to compensate for a bad night's sleep
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, my fellow suffering beings. |
| 0:20.6 | We are talking sleep today with a dude who is anything but sleepy. |
| 0:24.4 | Dr. Don Posner is a proud, Bronx native. |
| 0:27.5 | He's quite a character in a good way, in my opinion. |
| 0:30.8 | In this interview, he got me thinking about the issue of sleep in a whole new way. |
| 0:35.0 | First thing is that he normalizes the sleep problems that many of us have. |
| 0:38.6 | If you're sleeping poorly right now, he says, don't freak out about it. |
| 0:41.3 | It's natural and normal and fixable. |
| 0:43.1 | A second, he has a whole bunch of tips for how to deal with insomnia, some of which I had |
| 0:47.3 | actually never heard before. |
| 0:49.2 | As I said, his name is Don Posner. |
| 0:50.8 | He's one of the leaders in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia or C.B.T.I. |
| 0:56.4 | These titles are founder and president of sleep well consultants and adjunct clinical |
| 1:02.8 | associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University |
| 1:07.6 | School of Medicine. |
| 1:09.3 | Not only did Don patiently answer my many, many questions in this interview, but we also |
| 1:12.8 | played them some listener voicemails to get some answers to your questions. |
| 1:17.4 | Here's just a quick preview of what we talked about, the difference between chronic and acute |
| 1:21.0 | insomnia, how we adapt to things that can mess up our sleep like remote work, what |
| 1:26.4 | sub chronic sleep conditions are, what to do if we're experiencing acute insomnia so |
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