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Sleep

For falling asleep, staying asleep, and the racing mind at lights-out.

€19 when it launches. Pricing details →

What's included

The sessions.

1
Sleep onsetFull-length session, listened to in bed, no re-emergence.
2
Settling a racing mind at bedtimeReducing mental activity at lights-out.
3
Returning to sleepA shorter middle-of-the-night session for waking.
4
Early wakingFor the 4–5am wake: reducing early-morning arousal and returning to sleep.
5
Pre-sleep wind-downA seated session for the hour before bed.
6
Reducing sleep effortRemoving the pressure to fall asleep, for people who now dread bedtime itself.
  • 2 general-use relaxation sessions — Tension Release and Deep Relaxation
  • A workbook
  • The evidence, explained simply
  • A before/after check-in, to track how you're feeling
The workbook

What it covers.

  • Two-week sleep diary — bedtime, time to fall asleep, wakings, wake time, morning rating 1–10
  • Wind-down hour planner: what leaves the hour, what enters it
  • Bedroom audit checklist — light, temperature, clock visibility
  • “If I'm awake at 3am” decision card — which session to use, when to get up
  • Week-two review page
Staying with it

The structure.

The 14-night structure. Nightly listening for 14 nights, tracked in the diary. The rule is stated up front: judge the protocol at night 14, not night 3.

The evidence

What the research says about hypnotherapy and sleep.

The most striking sleep finding in the hypnosis literature is physiological, not subjective. Researchers had participants listen to a hypnotic suggestion to “sleep deeper” before a nap, then measured their sleep with EEG. Those who heard the suggestion spent significantly more time in slow-wave sleep — the deep, restorative stage — than controls, with the effect strongest in people higher in hypnotic suggestibility (Cordi, Schlarb & Rasch, 2014). This wasn't a questionnaire result; the measured architecture of sleep changed.

Zoom out to the wider field, and the picture is promising but uneven. A systematic review of 24 studies found a majority reported benefit, but also that the more rigorous trial designs were less likely to show an effect — better research is still needed (Chamine, Atchley & Oken, 2018).

The first-line treatment for chronic insomnia is cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), and several components of this pack — reducing sleep effort, restructuring the pre-sleep hour — are drawn from that tradition. Persistent insomnia, loud snoring with daytime exhaustion, or suspected sleep apnoea need medical assessment: this pack works alongside that, never instead of it.

Cordi, M. J., Schlarb, A. A., & Rasch, B. (2014). Deepening sleep by hypnotic suggestion. Sleep, 37(6), 1143–1152.

Chamine, I., Atchley, R., & Oken, B. S. (2018). Hypnosis intervention effects on sleep outcomes: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 14(2), 271–283.

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Recorded by real human voices — never AI. Adjunctive to professional care, always.

In production — €19 at launch
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