What if my sleep problem is hormonal?

Hormone shifts can trigger sleep problems but they cannot perpetuate them. It is often our behaviours that do that, with this program we are changing your behaviours. We cannot control your hormones, we cannot control how many times you wake up with hot flushes but the more consistent sleep you get, the more easy it is to cope with and control the original causes. You should find that even with the hormonal changes, you can still improve sleep. There is lots of evidence for that for that even with cancer, chronic pain etc.

At the end of the day, whilst we cannot fix the original triggers and problems, it is completely normal to experience sleep problems during these periods in your life but it is not normal after a few weeks for those sleep problems to still be there. We know that because a lot of people, after a few weeks from the sleep issue starting, their sleep problems will go away. We therefore understand that there is something that is different between those people. It is usually that some people will try and fix their sleep at the beginning then unfortunately it ends up perpetuating the problem. There are lots of people who are hormonal but don't have sleep problems and often the difference is down to behaviour. 

In module 1, I cover information about perpetuating a problem like increasing a sleep opportunity instead of reducing it. Your brain sees that you have diluted your sleep opportunity therefore it will dilute the quality of your sleep and then you get fragmentation.