Thinking isn’t the problem. This is.
Most people don’t have a sleep issue — they have a boundary issue.
SLEEP
At this point, I sometimes use a phrase that gets a reaction:
Thinking addiction.
Stay with me.
It’s not that we think too much — thinking is what the brain does.
Seen this way, it becomes less of a flaw, and more of a skill gap.
And skill gaps can be worked with.
You learn, you practice, you refine.
Over time, what once felt automatic becomes something you can influence.
Once this shifts, sleep becomes much easier to access.
There are always thoughts:
reminders, plans, memories, possibilities, worries, ideas.
That’s normal.
The issue is not thinking.
👉 It’s the inability to disengage from thinking when it’s no longer helpful.
Many people were never shown how to do that.
We don’t learn how to set boundaries with thoughts in the same way we might learn to set boundaries with people or responsibilities.
So thinking continues… into the night… into the space where sleep is meant to happen.
Next week, we’ll get into how.
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