With dread, I looked over at the clock on the nightstand, hoping I wouldn’t see what I knew I would…1:30 a.m.! I’d been asleep for less than three hours, and if this night was like all the nights of the past six months, it meant I was awake for the rest of the night. It wasn’t always like this.

I used to be a sound sleeper. Once I fell asleep, I could sleep for eight hours, waking without an alarm at the same time each morning. But that was before I went through a separation, among a few other major and traumatic life changes. Here, Dean from Clear Sky tells the story of how changes in his life brought on insomnia, and how he dealt with it. Read more: https://www.clearskycenter.org/blog-how-use-mindfulness-cant-sleep/