Insomnia and CBT-i
Trying Harder Is the Problem: Reflections on Insomnia
Insomnia is the one condition where the standard cultural advice — try harder, optimize more, add another protocol to your stack — reliably makes things worse. People who have spent years adding to their wind-down routine are not failing at sleep because they haven’t tried enough. The trying itself is the wakefulness.
Graeme Thompson, RCC
May 12, 2026
