Ep.36 How to improve your Sleep Quality w/ Derek Lacey

Join me in this episode where I interview Derek Lacey on how to improve your sleep quality through inner child work.

Inner child work can profoundly influence your sleep quality by addressing the root causes of stress, anxiety, and emotional instability that often stem from childhood experiences. By healing and nurturing your inner child, you create a foundation of emotional well-being, safety, and self-compassion that promotes restful and rejuvenating sleep.

Inner child work involves exploring and healing past childhood experiences, traumas, and emotions that may still be impacting your adult life. By addressing unresolved issues from your formative years, you can release negative patterns and cultivate a healthier, more integrated self.

The Connection Between Inner Child Work and Sleep Quality

1. Reducing Stress and Anxiety

• Unresolved Trauma: Childhood traumas can manifest as chronic stress and anxiety in adulthood. These unresolved issues can cause a hyperactive stress response, making it difficult to relax and fall asleep.
• Healing Process: By engaging in inner child work, you can address and heal these traumas, reducing overall stress and anxiety levels, leading to improved relaxation and better sleep quality.

1. Enhancing Emotional Regulation

• Emotional Turmoil: Unprocessed childhood emotions can lead to emotional instability, affecting your ability to manage stress and maintain calmness, which are crucial for good sleep.
• Emotional Healing: Inner child work helps you acknowledge and process these emotions, enhancing your emotional regulation. This improved emotional balance can lead to a more restful and uninterrupted sleep.

1. Releasing Negative Beliefs

• Limiting Beliefs: Childhood experiences often shape our beliefs about ourselves and the world. Negative beliefs and self-perceptions can contribute to feelings of unworthiness, leading to anxiety and sleep disturbances.
• Positive Reframing: By identifying and reframing these negative beliefs through inner child work, you can cultivate a more positive self-image and reduce nighttime rumination, promoting better sleep.

1. Creating a Sense of Safety

• Sense of Insecurity: Traumatic childhood experiences can leave you feeling unsafe and hyper-vigilant, which can persist into adulthood, affecting your ability to relax and sleep soundly.
• Inner Nurturing: Inner child work involves nurturing and reassuring your inner child, creating a sense of safety and security. This sense of inner safety can significantly improve your ability to relax and achieve deep sleep.

1. Improving Self-Compassion

• Self-Criticism: Childhood criticism and negative experiences can lead to a harsh inner critic, perpetuating stress and negative self-talk that disrupt sleep.
• Self-Compassion Practice: Inner child work fosters self-compassion, helping you to replace self-criticism with kindness and understanding. This positive self-relationship reduces stress and enhances sleep quality.

1. Resolving Nightmares and Sleep Disorders

• Recurrent Nightmares: Unresolved childhood trauma can cause recurrent nightmares and sleep disorders, as the subconscious mind tries to process these experiences during sleep.
• Therapeutic Resolution: Through inner child work, you can address and resolve these traumas, potentially reducing the frequency and intensity of nightmares and improving overall sleep patterns.

Derek Lacey is a sleep facilitator and founder of the Art of Falling Asleep & 5 Step Method, a method of sleeping that aligns the mind, body and nervous system to create a deeper and more meaningful experience of sleep. 

After spending a lifetime fighting insomnia himself, Derek discovered his sleep when he became a health coach in 2015, learning the importance of daily habits and mindset changes, then applying these mindset changes to his own insomnia transformation. 

Since then, he has used his knowledge of sleep science and sleep psychology to help insomniacs use intuitive methods to repurpose their resistance to sleep into their own pharmacy of sleep chemicals. 

Derek’s mission is to create a movement that makes sleep meaningful again, help people access the spiritual gifts of sleep, and use this deeper connection with sleep to contribute to a more conscious planet. 

find out more about his precious work here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-falling-asleep/id1522586525

https://www.facebook.com/DerekLaceyHC

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