Clinically Reviewed
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Sleep
If you’ve struggled with sleep for a while, then there’s a good chance you’ve already tried quite a lot to improve it. That makes sense. Struggling with sleep is difficult, and when something is causing us distress, our natural instinct is often to try to solve it and find a solution. For example if you've got a headache what do most people do? They identify the problem and instinctively try something that they believe should work, e.g. paracetamol or aspirin, to help solve the problem.
So when you've struggled with sleep you may have changed your evening routine, searched for sleep tips, tracked your sleep, tried supplements and over the counter products, bought different bedding, tried meditation and yoga etc. Or perhaps, you've just spent a lot of time wondering and searching for what you might be doing wrong with sleep. All of this is an effort to understandably try and solve the problem.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, usually shortened to ACT, approaches difficulty sleeping from a different angle. Rather than approaching sleep as a problem to solve or fix, which we understandably and instinctively want to do, ACT looks at what actually happens when sleep becomes something you are trying to control, fix or get right and what the long term outcomes of this are.
The aim of ACT is partly to help you become less trapped by the struggle that comes with difficulty sleeping: the thoughts, worry, pressure, frustration, stress and habits that can gradually make sleep feel like a problem in your life.
At Sluzzle, ACT is one of the main psychological approaches our clinicians draw on when providing guidance to people to develop a different relationship with sleep.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an established psychological approach centred around something called psychological flexibility.
That phrase sounds more complicated than it needs to be. In simple terms, psychological flexibility means being better able to notice what is happening, make room for difficult thoughts and feelings, and choose how you want to respond. Rather than automatically getting pulled around by whatever your mind is telling you at that moment.
The official ACT model describes six closely connected processes: acceptance, cognitive defusion, present-moment awareness, self-as-context, values and committed action. Together, these form the model often shown as the ACT Hexaflex.
ACT is not about thinking positively. It is not about convincing yourself that everything is fine. And although mindfulness can be part of ACT, ACT is not simply meditation. It is much more practical than that: What is happening here? What is my mind doing? What matters to me? And what is the most useful thing I can do next?
Dr Charlie Tyack describes the overall aim as building flexibility around sleep and how our mind responds to sleep difficulties, rather than creating another set of rigid rules around sleep, where repeating the same attempt to control the problem can itself become part of the struggle.
The six core processes of Acceptance & CommiTment Therapy
Acceptance
Acceptance is probably the most misunderstood part of ACT. It does not mean deciding that poor sleep is fine, resigning yourself to never sleeping properly, or simply putting up with something difficult. It means making space for what is already happening, such as sleep being elusive, without immediately entering into a fight with it.
Dr Jill McGarry describes this particularly clearly in relation to sleep. Acceptance is not saying, “I suppose this is my life forever.” It is recognising that right now this is difficult, allowing those thoughts, feelings and physical sensations to be there for a moment, rather than immediately rushing into another attempt to solve the night. Sometimes the first useful move is simply to stop adding another layer of struggle to an already difficult situation.
Cognitive defusion
ACT uses the word defusion to describe becoming a little less tangled up with your thoughts. Imagine waking up at 3am and your mind tells you: I’m not going to cope tomorrow if I don't sleep. At 3am, that can feel less like a thought and more like a fact.
ACT does not necessarily ask you to argue with it and replace it with something cheerful or positive. Instead, you might learn to notice:
I’m having the thought that I won’t cope tomorrow. That small change can create some distance by allowing you to just notice what your mind is saying.
Dr Amanda Mwale talks about learning to observe thoughts rather than trying to control them. Fighting thoughts, such as by trying to disprove them or argue with them, can sometimes make them louder; noticing them with a bit more gentle curiosity can change your relationship with them.
Dr Charlie Tyack uses the word unhooking for much the same process: noticing when a thought has grabbed your attention and remembering that a thought can be present without having to dictate what happens next.
Contact with the present moment
A difficult night can quickly pull your mind backwards and forwards in time.
Why was last night awful?
What if tonight is the same?
What if tomorrow is ruined?
What if this never changes?
Being present is about coming back to what is actually happening now rather than spending the whole night mentally living in yesterday or tomorrow. That does not mean forcing yourself to relax. It simply creates a little more space to notice what is happening before automatically reacting to it.
Self-as-context
This is probably the most technical-sounding ACT principle, but the idea is fairly straightforward. ACT helps you practise taking a slight step back from your experience. Rather than being completely inside the thought “I can't cope with not sleeping”, you begin to notice that you are the person having that thought and can look at it more objectively.
Dr Charlie Tyack describes it as being able to step off the stage for a moment and view what is happening from the audience. I.e. the thoughts are just the actors on the stage in front of you. That change in perspective can create more choice about what you do next. You still have the thought. It just does not have to be the whole picture.
Values
ACT spends quite a lot of time asking a deceptively simple question: What actually matters to you?
Sleep itself is not actually what people value, even if instinctively they think they do. We normally want sleep because of what we believe it will allow us to do, which we actually value: work effectively, enjoy ourselves, exercise well, look after our family, see friends, travel, create things or simply feel more like ourselves.
Dr Will Tadros describes values as the things that bring meaning, energy and direction to our lives. This is particularly useful when things are difficult and you need something more substantial than simply “I want this feeling to go away.”
ACT therefore asks not only: How did I sleep? but also: What sort of day and life do I want to keep moving towards despite how sleep is?
Committed action
Values provide the direction. Committed action is what you actually do. That does not mean rigid goals or another list of sleep rules.
Dr Jill McGarry describes commitment as moving in a useful direction, rather than committing yourself to trying to get eight perfect hours of sleep or promising never to struggle with sleep again. A difficult night might change how much energy you have the following day, but it does not automatically have to erase all of your plans and everything that matters to you.
Sometimes committed action is very small steps: Seeing a friend for an hour rather than cancelling everything; getting outside for some exercise for twenty minutes; doing one important piece of work; being present with your family at dinner. The point is not to pretend you are not tired or struggling. It is to stop difficult sleep automatically becoming the organiser of your whole day to day life.
Why can trying harder to sleep make things worse?
This is one of the ideas that sits at the heart of how Sluzzle uses ACT. Most problems in life reward effort. If something breaks, we fix it. If we cannot do something, we practise it more. If something matters, we try harder at it. Sleep is awkward because it does not always behave that way. You cannot directly command yourself to become unconscious and force yourself into sleep.
Dr Zoe Gotts describes how greater effort can make the brain work harder and become more alert, which is exactly the opposite of the state we are trying to create. Over time, sleep can become a project: new pillows, trackers, more routines, sleep hygiene rules and increasingly elaborate attempts to get it right.
Dr Amanda Mwale describes a similar struggle loop. Understandably, someone wants to sleep, but then struggles to do so and starts looking for solutions: online tips, medication, supplements, monitoring and other ways to control what is happening through attempting to force sleep. The problem is that sleep can then occupy more and more of your attention and energy, which may fuel the issue.
Dr Charlie Tyack puts it even more simply: sleep is a biological process that cannot simply be forced, and increased effort can sometimes make it feel more elusive.
ACT is therefore not asking: What else can I do to make myself sleep? It is often asking: What happens if I stop treating sleep as something I have to achieve? What else matters in my life that I could focus more on?
Acceptance does not mean giving up on better sleep
This point is important enough to repeat. People sometimes hear “acceptance” and think ACT is telling them: Just accept that you can't sleep and forget about it. It definitely isn't this.
ACT distinguishes between accepting what is happening in this particular moment, which may be hard, and giving up that nothing will ever change. You can want things to improve while also recognising that fighting and battling with the present struggle you're in is not always the most helpful route there.
If it is 3:20am and you are awake, that is already the situation. Your mind may immediately start adding: This is awful.Tomorrow is ruined.I need to fix this. Why is this happening again?
ACT gives you another option: acknowledge that being awake is difficult, notice what your mind is doing, and make a more deliberate choice about what happens next. Dr Jill's description of acceptance is particularly grounded: it is not resignation, but resisting the urge to rush straight into solving the night.
ACT has some overlap with the Serenity Prayer: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
When we're struggling with sleep, we often try desperately to control something that simply can't be forced. ACT helps us recognise that while we can't make sleep happen, we can change how we respond to those difficult nights. We can learn to get less caught up in the struggle, make room for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, and choose to keep doing the things that matter to us the next day, even after a poor night's sleep.
Sleep is often more “being” than “doing”
Dr Will Tadros uses a simple distinction in his Sluzzle course: doing and being. Doing mode is useful. It allows us to plan, work, make decisions, solve problems and get things done. But sleep itself is not something we really do.
The more it becomes: I have to sleep now. I need to make this happen. What technique haven't I tried yet? What am I doing wrong? The more sleep begins to resemble another task.
Will also describes sleep as much closer to being: allowing rather than continually acting upon the situation. His wider ACT approach is not about doing nothing with your life; it is about becoming better at choosing when action is useful and when another round of problem-solving is not helpful. That distinction can be particularly useful in the middle of the night.
If you’ve struggled with sleep for a while, then there’s a good chance you’ve already tried quite a lot to improve it. That makes sense. Struggling with sleep is difficult, and when something is causing us distress, our natural instinct is often to try to solve it and find a solution. For example if you've got a headache what do most people do? They identify the problem and instinctively try something that they believe should work, e.g. paracetamol or aspirin, to help solve the problem.
So when you've struggled with sleep you may have changed your evening routine, searched for sleep tips, tracked your sleep, tried supplements and over the counter products, bought different bedding, tried meditation and yoga etc. Or perhaps, you've just spent a lot of time wondering and searching for what you might be doing wrong with sleep. All of this is an effort to understandably try and solve the problem.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, usually shortened to ACT, approaches difficulty sleeping from a different angle. Rather than approaching sleep as a problem to solve or fix, which we understandably and instinctively want to do, ACT looks at what actually happens when sleep becomes something you are trying to control, fix or get right and what the long term outcomes of this are.
The aim of ACT is partly to help you become less trapped by the struggle that comes with difficulty sleeping: the thoughts, worry, pressure, frustration, stress and habits that can gradually make sleep feel like a problem in your life.
At Sluzzle, ACT is one of the main psychological approaches our clinicians draw on when providing guidance to people to develop a different relationship with sleep.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an established psychological approach centred around something called psychological flexibility.
That phrase sounds more complicated than it needs to be. In simple terms, psychological flexibility means being better able to notice what is happening, make room for difficult thoughts and feelings, and choose how you want to respond. Rather than automatically getting pulled around by whatever your mind is telling you at that moment.
The official ACT model describes six closely connected processes: acceptance, cognitive defusion, present-moment awareness, self-as-context, values and committed action. Together, these form the model often shown as the ACT Hexaflex.
ACT is not about thinking positively. It is not about convincing yourself that everything is fine. And although mindfulness can be part of ACT, ACT is not simply meditation. It is much more practical than that: What is happening here? What is my mind doing? What matters to me? And what is the most useful thing I can do next?
Dr Charlie Tyack describes the overall aim as building flexibility around sleep and how our mind responds to sleep difficulties, rather than creating another set of rigid rules around sleep, where repeating the same attempt to control the problem can itself become part of the struggle.
The six core processes of Acceptance & CommiTment Therapy
Acceptance
Acceptance is probably the most misunderstood part of ACT. It does not mean deciding that poor sleep is fine, resigning yourself to never sleeping properly, or simply putting up with something difficult. It means making space for what is already happening, such as sleep being elusive, without immediately entering into a fight with it.
Dr Jill McGarry describes this particularly clearly in relation to sleep. Acceptance is not saying, “I suppose this is my life forever.” It is recognising that right now this is difficult, allowing those thoughts, feelings and physical sensations to be there for a moment, rather than immediately rushing into another attempt to solve the night. Sometimes the first useful move is simply to stop adding another layer of struggle to an already difficult situation.
Cognitive defusion
ACT uses the word defusion to describe becoming a little less tangled up with your thoughts. Imagine waking up at 3am and your mind tells you: I’m not going to cope tomorrow if I don't sleep. At 3am, that can feel less like a thought and more like a fact.
ACT does not necessarily ask you to argue with it and replace it with something cheerful or positive. Instead, you might learn to notice:
I’m having the thought that I won’t cope tomorrow. That small change can create some distance by allowing you to just notice what your mind is saying.
Dr Amanda Mwale talks about learning to observe thoughts rather than trying to control them. Fighting thoughts, such as by trying to disprove them or argue with them, can sometimes make them louder; noticing them with a bit more gentle curiosity can change your relationship with them.
Dr Charlie Tyack uses the word unhooking for much the same process: noticing when a thought has grabbed your attention and remembering that a thought can be present without having to dictate what happens next.
Contact with the present moment
A difficult night can quickly pull your mind backwards and forwards in time.
Why was last night awful?
What if tonight is the same?
What if tomorrow is ruined?
What if this never changes?
Being present is about coming back to what is actually happening now rather than spending the whole night mentally living in yesterday or tomorrow. That does not mean forcing yourself to relax. It simply creates a little more space to notice what is happening before automatically reacting to it.
Self-as-context
This is probably the most technical-sounding ACT principle, but the idea is fairly straightforward. ACT helps you practise taking a slight step back from your experience. Rather than being completely inside the thought “I can't cope with not sleeping”, you begin to notice that you are the person having that thought and can look at it more objectively.
Dr Charlie Tyack describes it as being able to step off the stage for a moment and view what is happening from the audience. I.e. the thoughts are just the actors on the stage in front of you. That change in perspective can create more choice about what you do next. You still have the thought. It just does not have to be the whole picture.
Values
ACT spends quite a lot of time asking a deceptively simple question: What actually matters to you?
Sleep itself is not actually what people value, even if instinctively they think they do. We normally want sleep because of what we believe it will allow us to do, which we actually value: work effectively, enjoy ourselves, exercise well, look after our family, see friends, travel, create things or simply feel more like ourselves.
Dr Will Tadros describes values as the things that bring meaning, energy and direction to our lives. This is particularly useful when things are difficult and you need something more substantial than simply “I want this feeling to go away.”
ACT therefore asks not only: How did I sleep? but also: What sort of day and life do I want to keep moving towards despite how sleep is?
Committed action
Values provide the direction. Committed action is what you actually do. That does not mean rigid goals or another list of sleep rules.
Dr Jill McGarry describes commitment as moving in a useful direction, rather than committing yourself to trying to get eight perfect hours of sleep or promising never to struggle with sleep again. A difficult night might change how much energy you have the following day, but it does not automatically have to erase all of your plans and everything that matters to you.
Sometimes committed action is very small steps: Seeing a friend for an hour rather than cancelling everything; getting outside for some exercise for twenty minutes; doing one important piece of work; being present with your family at dinner. The point is not to pretend you are not tired or struggling. It is to stop difficult sleep automatically becoming the organiser of your whole day to day life.
Why can trying harder to sleep make things worse?
This is one of the ideas that sits at the heart of how Sluzzle uses ACT. Most problems in life reward effort. If something breaks, we fix it. If we cannot do something, we practise it more. If something matters, we try harder at it. Sleep is awkward because it does not always behave that way. You cannot directly command yourself to become unconscious and force yourself into sleep.
Dr Zoe Gotts describes how greater effort can make the brain work harder and become more alert, which is exactly the opposite of the state we are trying to create. Over time, sleep can become a project: new pillows, trackers, more routines, sleep hygiene rules and increasingly elaborate attempts to get it right.
Dr Amanda Mwale describes a similar struggle loop. Understandably, someone wants to sleep, but then struggles to do so and starts looking for solutions: online tips, medication, supplements, monitoring and other ways to control what is happening through attempting to force sleep. The problem is that sleep can then occupy more and more of your attention and energy, which may fuel the issue.
Dr Charlie Tyack puts it even more simply: sleep is a biological process that cannot simply be forced, and increased effort can sometimes make it feel more elusive.
ACT is therefore not asking: What else can I do to make myself sleep? It is often asking: What happens if I stop treating sleep as something I have to achieve? What else matters in my life that I could focus more on?
Acceptance does not mean giving up on better sleep
This point is important enough to repeat. People sometimes hear “acceptance” and think ACT is telling them: Just accept that you can't sleep and forget about it. It definitely isn't this.
ACT distinguishes between accepting what is happening in this particular moment, which may be hard, and giving up that nothing will ever change. You can want things to improve while also recognising that fighting and battling with the present struggle you're in is not always the most helpful route there.
If it is 3:20am and you are awake, that is already the situation. Your mind may immediately start adding: This is awful.Tomorrow is ruined.I need to fix this. Why is this happening again?
ACT gives you another option: acknowledge that being awake is difficult, notice what your mind is doing, and make a more deliberate choice about what happens next. Dr Jill's description of acceptance is particularly grounded: it is not resignation, but resisting the urge to rush straight into solving the night.
ACT has some overlap with the Serenity Prayer: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
When we're struggling with sleep, we often try desperately to control something that simply can't be forced. ACT helps us recognise that while we can't make sleep happen, we can change how we respond to those difficult nights. We can learn to get less caught up in the struggle, make room for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, and choose to keep doing the things that matter to us the next day, even after a poor night's sleep.
Sleep is often more “being” than “doing”
Dr Will Tadros uses a simple distinction in his Sluzzle course: doing and being. Doing mode is useful. It allows us to plan, work, make decisions, solve problems and get things done. But sleep itself is not something we really do.
The more it becomes: I have to sleep now. I need to make this happen. What technique haven't I tried yet? What am I doing wrong? The more sleep begins to resemble another task.
Will also describes sleep as much closer to being: allowing rather than continually acting upon the situation. His wider ACT approach is not about doing nothing with your life; it is about becoming better at choosing when action is useful and when another round of problem-solving is not helpful. That distinction can be particularly useful in the middle of the night.
If you’ve struggled with sleep for a while, then there’s a good chance you’ve already tried quite a lot to improve it. That makes sense. Struggling with sleep is difficult, and when something is causing us distress, our natural instinct is often to try to solve it and find a solution. For example if you've got a headache what do most people do? They identify the problem and instinctively try something that they believe should work, e.g. paracetamol or aspirin, to help solve the problem.
So when you've struggled with sleep you may have changed your evening routine, searched for sleep tips, tracked your sleep, tried supplements and over the counter products, bought different bedding, tried meditation and yoga etc. Or perhaps, you've just spent a lot of time wondering and searching for what you might be doing wrong with sleep. All of this is an effort to understandably try and solve the problem.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, usually shortened to ACT, approaches difficulty sleeping from a different angle. Rather than approaching sleep as a problem to solve or fix, which we understandably and instinctively want to do, ACT looks at what actually happens when sleep becomes something you are trying to control, fix or get right and what the long term outcomes of this are.
The aim of ACT is partly to help you become less trapped by the struggle that comes with difficulty sleeping: the thoughts, worry, pressure, frustration, stress and habits that can gradually make sleep feel like a problem in your life.
At Sluzzle, ACT is one of the main psychological approaches our clinicians draw on when providing guidance to people to develop a different relationship with sleep.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an established psychological approach centred around something called psychological flexibility.
That phrase sounds more complicated than it needs to be. In simple terms, psychological flexibility means being better able to notice what is happening, make room for difficult thoughts and feelings, and choose how you want to respond. Rather than automatically getting pulled around by whatever your mind is telling you at that moment.
The official ACT model describes six closely connected processes: acceptance, cognitive defusion, present-moment awareness, self-as-context, values and committed action. Together, these form the model often shown as the ACT Hexaflex.
ACT is not about thinking positively. It is not about convincing yourself that everything is fine. And although mindfulness can be part of ACT, ACT is not simply meditation. It is much more practical than that: What is happening here? What is my mind doing? What matters to me? And what is the most useful thing I can do next?
Dr Charlie Tyack describes the overall aim as building flexibility around sleep and how our mind responds to sleep difficulties, rather than creating another set of rigid rules around sleep, where repeating the same attempt to control the problem can itself become part of the struggle.
The six core processes of Acceptance & CommiTment Therapy
Acceptance
Acceptance is probably the most misunderstood part of ACT. It does not mean deciding that poor sleep is fine, resigning yourself to never sleeping properly, or simply putting up with something difficult. It means making space for what is already happening, such as sleep being elusive, without immediately entering into a fight with it.
Dr Jill McGarry describes this particularly clearly in relation to sleep. Acceptance is not saying, “I suppose this is my life forever.” It is recognising that right now this is difficult, allowing those thoughts, feelings and physical sensations to be there for a moment, rather than immediately rushing into another attempt to solve the night. Sometimes the first useful move is simply to stop adding another layer of struggle to an already difficult situation.
Cognitive defusion
ACT uses the word defusion to describe becoming a little less tangled up with your thoughts. Imagine waking up at 3am and your mind tells you: I’m not going to cope tomorrow if I don't sleep. At 3am, that can feel less like a thought and more like a fact.
ACT does not necessarily ask you to argue with it and replace it with something cheerful or positive. Instead, you might learn to notice:
I’m having the thought that I won’t cope tomorrow. That small change can create some distance by allowing you to just notice what your mind is saying.
Dr Amanda Mwale talks about learning to observe thoughts rather than trying to control them. Fighting thoughts, such as by trying to disprove them or argue with them, can sometimes make them louder; noticing them with a bit more gentle curiosity can change your relationship with them.
Dr Charlie Tyack uses the word unhooking for much the same process: noticing when a thought has grabbed your attention and remembering that a thought can be present without having to dictate what happens next.
Contact with the present moment
A difficult night can quickly pull your mind backwards and forwards in time.
Why was last night awful?
What if tonight is the same?
What if tomorrow is ruined?
What if this never changes?
Being present is about coming back to what is actually happening now rather than spending the whole night mentally living in yesterday or tomorrow. That does not mean forcing yourself to relax. It simply creates a little more space to notice what is happening before automatically reacting to it.
Self-as-context
This is probably the most technical-sounding ACT principle, but the idea is fairly straightforward. ACT helps you practise taking a slight step back from your experience. Rather than being completely inside the thought “I can't cope with not sleeping”, you begin to notice that you are the person having that thought and can look at it more objectively.
Dr Charlie Tyack describes it as being able to step off the stage for a moment and view what is happening from the audience. I.e. the thoughts are just the actors on the stage in front of you. That change in perspective can create more choice about what you do next. You still have the thought. It just does not have to be the whole picture.
Values
ACT spends quite a lot of time asking a deceptively simple question: What actually matters to you?
Sleep itself is not actually what people value, even if instinctively they think they do. We normally want sleep because of what we believe it will allow us to do, which we actually value: work effectively, enjoy ourselves, exercise well, look after our family, see friends, travel, create things or simply feel more like ourselves.
Dr Will Tadros describes values as the things that bring meaning, energy and direction to our lives. This is particularly useful when things are difficult and you need something more substantial than simply “I want this feeling to go away.”
ACT therefore asks not only: How did I sleep? but also: What sort of day and life do I want to keep moving towards despite how sleep is?
Committed action
Values provide the direction. Committed action is what you actually do. That does not mean rigid goals or another list of sleep rules.
Dr Jill McGarry describes commitment as moving in a useful direction, rather than committing yourself to trying to get eight perfect hours of sleep or promising never to struggle with sleep again. A difficult night might change how much energy you have the following day, but it does not automatically have to erase all of your plans and everything that matters to you.
Sometimes committed action is very small steps: Seeing a friend for an hour rather than cancelling everything; getting outside for some exercise for twenty minutes; doing one important piece of work; being present with your family at dinner. The point is not to pretend you are not tired or struggling. It is to stop difficult sleep automatically becoming the organiser of your whole day to day life.
Why can trying harder to sleep make things worse?
This is one of the ideas that sits at the heart of how Sluzzle uses ACT. Most problems in life reward effort. If something breaks, we fix it. If we cannot do something, we practise it more. If something matters, we try harder at it. Sleep is awkward because it does not always behave that way. You cannot directly command yourself to become unconscious and force yourself into sleep.
Dr Zoe Gotts describes how greater effort can make the brain work harder and become more alert, which is exactly the opposite of the state we are trying to create. Over time, sleep can become a project: new pillows, trackers, more routines, sleep hygiene rules and increasingly elaborate attempts to get it right.
Dr Amanda Mwale describes a similar struggle loop. Understandably, someone wants to sleep, but then struggles to do so and starts looking for solutions: online tips, medication, supplements, monitoring and other ways to control what is happening through attempting to force sleep. The problem is that sleep can then occupy more and more of your attention and energy, which may fuel the issue.
Dr Charlie Tyack puts it even more simply: sleep is a biological process that cannot simply be forced, and increased effort can sometimes make it feel more elusive.
ACT is therefore not asking: What else can I do to make myself sleep? It is often asking: What happens if I stop treating sleep as something I have to achieve? What else matters in my life that I could focus more on?
Acceptance does not mean giving up on better sleep
This point is important enough to repeat. People sometimes hear “acceptance” and think ACT is telling them: Just accept that you can't sleep and forget about it. It definitely isn't this.
ACT distinguishes between accepting what is happening in this particular moment, which may be hard, and giving up that nothing will ever change. You can want things to improve while also recognising that fighting and battling with the present struggle you're in is not always the most helpful route there.
If it is 3:20am and you are awake, that is already the situation. Your mind may immediately start adding: This is awful.Tomorrow is ruined.I need to fix this. Why is this happening again?
ACT gives you another option: acknowledge that being awake is difficult, notice what your mind is doing, and make a more deliberate choice about what happens next. Dr Jill's description of acceptance is particularly grounded: it is not resignation, but resisting the urge to rush straight into solving the night.
ACT has some overlap with the Serenity Prayer: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
When we're struggling with sleep, we often try desperately to control something that simply can't be forced. ACT helps us recognise that while we can't make sleep happen, we can change how we respond to those difficult nights. We can learn to get less caught up in the struggle, make room for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, and choose to keep doing the things that matter to us the next day, even after a poor night's sleep.
Sleep is often more “being” than “doing”
Dr Will Tadros uses a simple distinction in his Sluzzle course: doing and being. Doing mode is useful. It allows us to plan, work, make decisions, solve problems and get things done. But sleep itself is not something we really do.
The more it becomes: I have to sleep now. I need to make this happen. What technique haven't I tried yet? What am I doing wrong? The more sleep begins to resemble another task.
Will also describes sleep as much closer to being: allowing rather than continually acting upon the situation. His wider ACT approach is not about doing nothing with your life; it is about becoming better at choosing when action is useful and when another round of problem-solving is not helpful. That distinction can be particularly useful in the middle of the night.
The ACT Choice Point: what do you do next?
The Choice Point is one way of turning ACT into something practical. A choice point is simply a moment where something difficult happens and you have some choice over your actions over what comes next.
Using the Choice Point ACT often describes our responses as towards moves and away moves: moving towards what matters to us, or doing things that pull us away from the person we want to be.
Imagine you sleep badly. Your mind says: I'm going to feel terrible all day and won't do well at work. You feel tired and anxious. Your urge might be to cancel everything, spend the morning worrying about sleep, and getting anxious about the night ahead.
Those responses are understandable given how a hard night cam make us feel. But ACT does not label these nights as “bad”. The question is simply: Are those thoughts helping me if I act on them?
A towards move might instead be keeping and sticking to one plan that matters to you the next day, doing what is realistically manageable, allowing yourself to be tired, but still showing up, without making the whole day about tiredness, or deciding not to spend another hour searching for a new sleep solution.
Dr Charlie Tyack uses a closely related ACT tool, the Matrix, to map the same territory: what matters, what difficult thoughts and feelings show up, what we then do, and whether those actions take us towards or away from the life we want. There is no perfect response. The aim is simply to have more choice around what may or may not be helpful for us.
What happens to racing thoughts in ACT?
ACT does not promise to switch your mind off and the negative thoughts that come with having a human mind. That would be impossible and a slightly odd promise for any psychological approach to make.
Zoe describes how thoughts can feel particularly loud when everything becomes quiet at night. During the day, there is plenty competing for our attention. But in bed there may be very little distractions, just us and our thoughts, so worries that were sitting quietly in the background suddenly feel enormous. ACT therefore works less on eliminating thoughts and more on changing how much control they have over you.
Instead of: I must stop thinking. I need to sleep. You might move towards: There goes my mind worrying about sleep again!
Instead of: It's 3am and I need to work out whether tomorrow will be a disaster. You might notice: My mind is trying to solve tomorrow at 3am as usual.
Amanda's approach is to observe thoughts objectiveyl rather than wrestle with them. Charlie describes learning to unhook from them. Different language, similar principle: you do not have to win every argument inside your head before you are allowed to rest.
ACT is also about the day after a bad night
A sleep problem does not always stay in the bedroom. It can start deciding whether you go out, exercise, meet somebody, work, travel or say yes to something enjoyable. That is one reason values and committed action matter so much in ACT.
Dr Will Tadros talks about identifying what genuinely gives your life meaning and then using that as a roadmap as a reminder for when things are difficult. Dr Jill McGarry makes a similar point: commitment is not a promise to sleep perfectly. It is a commitment to continue moving in a useful direction and remembering that your life contains more than sleep.
ACT is not asking you to ignore tiredness. It is asking whether difficult sleep has gradually been given more control over your life than you want it to have.
How Sluzzle's ACT clinicians approach sleep
The ACT Choice Point: what do you do next?
The Choice Point is one way of turning ACT into something practical. A choice point is simply a moment where something difficult happens and you have some choice over your actions over what comes next.
Using the Choice Point ACT often describes our responses as towards moves and away moves: moving towards what matters to us, or doing things that pull us away from the person we want to be.
Imagine you sleep badly. Your mind says: I'm going to feel terrible all day and won't do well at work. You feel tired and anxious. Your urge might be to cancel everything, spend the morning worrying about sleep, and getting anxious about the night ahead.
Those responses are understandable given how a hard night cam make us feel. But ACT does not label these nights as “bad”. The question is simply: Are those thoughts helping me if I act on them?
A towards move might instead be keeping and sticking to one plan that matters to you the next day, doing what is realistically manageable, allowing yourself to be tired, but still showing up, without making the whole day about tiredness, or deciding not to spend another hour searching for a new sleep solution.
Dr Charlie Tyack uses a closely related ACT tool, the Matrix, to map the same territory: what matters, what difficult thoughts and feelings show up, what we then do, and whether those actions take us towards or away from the life we want. There is no perfect response. The aim is simply to have more choice around what may or may not be helpful for us.
What happens to racing thoughts in ACT?
ACT does not promise to switch your mind off and the negative thoughts that come with having a human mind. That would be impossible and a slightly odd promise for any psychological approach to make.
Zoe describes how thoughts can feel particularly loud when everything becomes quiet at night. During the day, there is plenty competing for our attention. But in bed there may be very little distractions, just us and our thoughts, so worries that were sitting quietly in the background suddenly feel enormous. ACT therefore works less on eliminating thoughts and more on changing how much control they have over you.
Instead of: I must stop thinking. I need to sleep. You might move towards: There goes my mind worrying about sleep again!
Instead of: It's 3am and I need to work out whether tomorrow will be a disaster. You might notice: My mind is trying to solve tomorrow at 3am as usual.
Amanda's approach is to observe thoughts objectiveyl rather than wrestle with them. Charlie describes learning to unhook from them. Different language, similar principle: you do not have to win every argument inside your head before you are allowed to rest.
ACT is also about the day after a bad night
A sleep problem does not always stay in the bedroom. It can start deciding whether you go out, exercise, meet somebody, work, travel or say yes to something enjoyable. That is one reason values and committed action matter so much in ACT.
Dr Will Tadros talks about identifying what genuinely gives your life meaning and then using that as a roadmap as a reminder for when things are difficult. Dr Jill McGarry makes a similar point: commitment is not a promise to sleep perfectly. It is a commitment to continue moving in a useful direction and remembering that your life contains more than sleep.
ACT is not asking you to ignore tiredness. It is asking whether difficult sleep has gradually been given more control over your life than you want it to have.
How Sluzzle's ACT clinicians approach sleep
The ACT Choice Point: what do you do next?
The Choice Point is one way of turning ACT into something practical. A choice point is simply a moment where something difficult happens and you have some choice over your actions over what comes next.
Using the Choice Point ACT often describes our responses as towards moves and away moves: moving towards what matters to us, or doing things that pull us away from the person we want to be.
Imagine you sleep badly. Your mind says: I'm going to feel terrible all day and won't do well at work. You feel tired and anxious. Your urge might be to cancel everything, spend the morning worrying about sleep, and getting anxious about the night ahead.
Those responses are understandable given how a hard night cam make us feel. But ACT does not label these nights as “bad”. The question is simply: Are those thoughts helping me if I act on them?
A towards move might instead be keeping and sticking to one plan that matters to you the next day, doing what is realistically manageable, allowing yourself to be tired, but still showing up, without making the whole day about tiredness, or deciding not to spend another hour searching for a new sleep solution.
Dr Charlie Tyack uses a closely related ACT tool, the Matrix, to map the same territory: what matters, what difficult thoughts and feelings show up, what we then do, and whether those actions take us towards or away from the life we want. There is no perfect response. The aim is simply to have more choice around what may or may not be helpful for us.
What happens to racing thoughts in ACT?
ACT does not promise to switch your mind off and the negative thoughts that come with having a human mind. That would be impossible and a slightly odd promise for any psychological approach to make.
Zoe describes how thoughts can feel particularly loud when everything becomes quiet at night. During the day, there is plenty competing for our attention. But in bed there may be very little distractions, just us and our thoughts, so worries that were sitting quietly in the background suddenly feel enormous. ACT therefore works less on eliminating thoughts and more on changing how much control they have over you.
Instead of: I must stop thinking. I need to sleep. You might move towards: There goes my mind worrying about sleep again!
Instead of: It's 3am and I need to work out whether tomorrow will be a disaster. You might notice: My mind is trying to solve tomorrow at 3am as usual.
Amanda's approach is to observe thoughts objectiveyl rather than wrestle with them. Charlie describes learning to unhook from them. Different language, similar principle: you do not have to win every argument inside your head before you are allowed to rest.
ACT is also about the day after a bad night
A sleep problem does not always stay in the bedroom. It can start deciding whether you go out, exercise, meet somebody, work, travel or say yes to something enjoyable. That is one reason values and committed action matter so much in ACT.
Dr Will Tadros talks about identifying what genuinely gives your life meaning and then using that as a roadmap as a reminder for when things are difficult. Dr Jill McGarry makes a similar point: commitment is not a promise to sleep perfectly. It is a commitment to continue moving in a useful direction and remembering that your life contains more than sleep.
ACT is not asking you to ignore tiredness. It is asking whether difficult sleep has gradually been given more control over your life than you want it to have.
How Sluzzle's ACT clinicians approach sleep
Dr Zoe Gotts: less effort, fewer fixes
Zoe focuses strongly on what happens when sleep becomes something we continuously try to optimise, which is very prevalent within society. Searching for another answer, buying another gadget, monitoring sleep more, perfecting the bedroom or adding another rule may all be understandable attempts to try to help. But if sleep has become a full-time project, continually adding more "doing" can create more pressure rather than less. Her approach is deliberately simpler: understand what is happening, reduce unnecessary effort and stop making sleep another job.
Dr Amanda Mwale: step out of the struggle loop
Amanda focuses on the cycle between wanting to sleep, trying to fix sleep, worrying when the fix does not work, and becoming increasingly preoccupied with the problem. A large part of her ACT approach involves learning to notice thoughts and feelings rather than immediately reacting to or trying to control them.
Dr Charlie Tyack: build psychological flexibility
Charlie describes ACT in terms of flexibility. Rather than following one rigid sleep rulebook, you learn a range of ways to respond: noticing, accepting, unhooking, checking what matters and choosing a useful next step. The objective is not to respond perfectly. It is to have more than one response available when the same difficult night turns up again.
Dr Jill McGarry: acceptance plus direction
Jill separates two important ideas. Acceptance means not having to fight what is already happening. Commitment means continuing to move in a direction that matters to you. Neither requires pretending a difficult night is pleasant, and neither requires perfection.
Dr Will Tadros: do what matters, even when it's hard
Will places a strong emphasis on life beyond sleep. ACT does not ask you to wait until all difficult thoughts, feelings or tiredness disappear before you start living again. Values provide a direction even when circumstances are not ideal. As Will puts it in his course, the useful question is essentially: What matters to you? What brings meaning, connection or energy to your life, and how can you keep moving towards some of that even when sleep has been difficult?
Is ACT just mindfulness?
No.
Mindfulness and present-moment awareness are part of ACT, but they are only a part of the model. ACT also includes acceptance, learning to unhook from thoughts, taking a wider perspective, identifying your values and actually doing things that move you towards them. You therefore do not have to become somebody who meditates for an hour every day in order to use ACT. In fact you don't have to meditate at all.
For sleep, it can be much more everyday than that: getting better at noticing when you're clock-watching, spotting that your mind has started forecasting tomorrow as doom and gloom again, recognising the urge to cancel everything after another hard night, and choosing what you want to do next during your day that matters to you.
What does the research say about ACT for insomnia?
ACT-specific research has grown. An updated 2026 meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials found that ACT produced meaningful improvements in insomnia symptoms compared with waitlist or standard-control conditions. In that analysis, insomnia severity outcomes were not significantly different between ACT and CBT-I (the main gold standard treatment) immediately after treatment or at six-month follow-up.
ACT is a credible and increasingly studied approach to insomnia and sleep-related struggle, with a different emphasis that may particularly resonate with people who have become caught in pressure, worry, control and repeatedly find themselves struggling with sleep.
Furthermore, ACT is a well-established, evidence-based psychological approach that has been studied extensively across a wide range of mental health difficulties, including anxiety, depression and chronic stress. It has a substantial and growing body of research supporting its effectiveness.The approach itself is far from new and it's grounded in decades of psychological research and clinical practice.
How is ACT different from CBT-I?
There is overlap between psychological approaches to sleep, and in practice clinicians may draw on more than one framework. Broadly, CBT-I focuses directly on the behaviours that can maintain insomnia and usually includes behavioural components such as stimulus control and sleep restriction or sleep compression.
ACT places greater emphasis on changing your relationship with difficult thoughts, feelings around sleep and wakefulness itself, through building psychological flexibility and continuing to live according to your values even when sleep is not exactly as you would like it to be. Sluzzle's current courses specifically draw on ACT and Compassion Focused Therapy, rather than delivering a standard CBT-I protocol.
How Sluzzle uses ACT for sleep
Sluzzle gives you access to different clinician-led courses rather than one single voice or one rigid formula. Our clinicians approach the subject slightly differently, but they share a common direction using the ACT framework: less pressure to make sleep happen; less fighting with every thought that appears at night; more flexibility in how you respond; and more space for the rest of your life.
The aim is not perfect sleep every night. It is to help make sleep less loaded, less frightening and less of a problem to solve.
Scientific studies on ACT for sleep
1) Updated meta-analysis comparing ACT and CBT-I ; Barroso et al ; Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine ; August 2026
2) Meta-analysis of internet-based ACT for sleep ; Fu et al ; Scientific Reports ; June 2026
3) Randomised trial comparing ACT with CBT-I ; El Rafihi-Ferreira et al ; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ; June 2026
4) ACT combined with self-compassion for insomnia ; Miller-Mendes et al ; British Journal of Clinical Psychology ; June 2026
Dr Zoe Gotts: less effort, fewer fixes
Zoe focuses strongly on what happens when sleep becomes something we continuously try to optimise, which is very prevalent within society. Searching for another answer, buying another gadget, monitoring sleep more, perfecting the bedroom or adding another rule may all be understandable attempts to try to help. But if sleep has become a full-time project, continually adding more "doing" can create more pressure rather than less. Her approach is deliberately simpler: understand what is happening, reduce unnecessary effort and stop making sleep another job.
Dr Amanda Mwale: step out of the struggle loop
Amanda focuses on the cycle between wanting to sleep, trying to fix sleep, worrying when the fix does not work, and becoming increasingly preoccupied with the problem. A large part of her ACT approach involves learning to notice thoughts and feelings rather than immediately reacting to or trying to control them.
Dr Charlie Tyack: build psychological flexibility
Charlie describes ACT in terms of flexibility. Rather than following one rigid sleep rulebook, you learn a range of ways to respond: noticing, accepting, unhooking, checking what matters and choosing a useful next step. The objective is not to respond perfectly. It is to have more than one response available when the same difficult night turns up again.
Dr Jill McGarry: acceptance plus direction
Jill separates two important ideas. Acceptance means not having to fight what is already happening. Commitment means continuing to move in a direction that matters to you. Neither requires pretending a difficult night is pleasant, and neither requires perfection.
Dr Will Tadros: do what matters, even when it's hard
Will places a strong emphasis on life beyond sleep. ACT does not ask you to wait until all difficult thoughts, feelings or tiredness disappear before you start living again. Values provide a direction even when circumstances are not ideal. As Will puts it in his course, the useful question is essentially: What matters to you? What brings meaning, connection or energy to your life, and how can you keep moving towards some of that even when sleep has been difficult?
Is ACT just mindfulness?
No.
Mindfulness and present-moment awareness are part of ACT, but they are only a part of the model. ACT also includes acceptance, learning to unhook from thoughts, taking a wider perspective, identifying your values and actually doing things that move you towards them. You therefore do not have to become somebody who meditates for an hour every day in order to use ACT. In fact you don't have to meditate at all.
For sleep, it can be much more everyday than that: getting better at noticing when you're clock-watching, spotting that your mind has started forecasting tomorrow as doom and gloom again, recognising the urge to cancel everything after another hard night, and choosing what you want to do next during your day that matters to you.
What does the research say about ACT for insomnia?
ACT-specific research has grown. An updated 2026 meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials found that ACT produced meaningful improvements in insomnia symptoms compared with waitlist or standard-control conditions. In that analysis, insomnia severity outcomes were not significantly different between ACT and CBT-I (the main gold standard treatment) immediately after treatment or at six-month follow-up.
ACT is a credible and increasingly studied approach to insomnia and sleep-related struggle, with a different emphasis that may particularly resonate with people who have become caught in pressure, worry, control and repeatedly find themselves struggling with sleep.
Furthermore, ACT is a well-established, evidence-based psychological approach that has been studied extensively across a wide range of mental health difficulties, including anxiety, depression and chronic stress. It has a substantial and growing body of research supporting its effectiveness.The approach itself is far from new and it's grounded in decades of psychological research and clinical practice.
How is ACT different from CBT-I?
There is overlap between psychological approaches to sleep, and in practice clinicians may draw on more than one framework. Broadly, CBT-I focuses directly on the behaviours that can maintain insomnia and usually includes behavioural components such as stimulus control and sleep restriction or sleep compression.
ACT places greater emphasis on changing your relationship with difficult thoughts, feelings around sleep and wakefulness itself, through building psychological flexibility and continuing to live according to your values even when sleep is not exactly as you would like it to be. Sluzzle's current courses specifically draw on ACT and Compassion Focused Therapy, rather than delivering a standard CBT-I protocol.
How Sluzzle uses ACT for sleep
Sluzzle gives you access to different clinician-led courses rather than one single voice or one rigid formula. Our clinicians approach the subject slightly differently, but they share a common direction using the ACT framework: less pressure to make sleep happen; less fighting with every thought that appears at night; more flexibility in how you respond; and more space for the rest of your life.
The aim is not perfect sleep every night. It is to help make sleep less loaded, less frightening and less of a problem to solve.
Scientific studies on ACT for sleep
1) Updated meta-analysis comparing ACT and CBT-I ; Barroso et al ; Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine ; August 2026
2) Meta-analysis of internet-based ACT for sleep ; Fu et al ; Scientific Reports ; June 2026
3) Randomised trial comparing ACT with CBT-I ; El Rafihi-Ferreira et al ; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ; June 2026
4) ACT combined with self-compassion for insomnia ; Miller-Mendes et al ; British Journal of Clinical Psychology ; June 2026
Dr Zoe Gotts: less effort, fewer fixes
Zoe focuses strongly on what happens when sleep becomes something we continuously try to optimise, which is very prevalent within society. Searching for another answer, buying another gadget, monitoring sleep more, perfecting the bedroom or adding another rule may all be understandable attempts to try to help. But if sleep has become a full-time project, continually adding more "doing" can create more pressure rather than less. Her approach is deliberately simpler: understand what is happening, reduce unnecessary effort and stop making sleep another job.
Dr Amanda Mwale: step out of the struggle loop
Amanda focuses on the cycle between wanting to sleep, trying to fix sleep, worrying when the fix does not work, and becoming increasingly preoccupied with the problem. A large part of her ACT approach involves learning to notice thoughts and feelings rather than immediately reacting to or trying to control them.
Dr Charlie Tyack: build psychological flexibility
Charlie describes ACT in terms of flexibility. Rather than following one rigid sleep rulebook, you learn a range of ways to respond: noticing, accepting, unhooking, checking what matters and choosing a useful next step. The objective is not to respond perfectly. It is to have more than one response available when the same difficult night turns up again.
Dr Jill McGarry: acceptance plus direction
Jill separates two important ideas. Acceptance means not having to fight what is already happening. Commitment means continuing to move in a direction that matters to you. Neither requires pretending a difficult night is pleasant, and neither requires perfection.
Dr Will Tadros: do what matters, even when it's hard
Will places a strong emphasis on life beyond sleep. ACT does not ask you to wait until all difficult thoughts, feelings or tiredness disappear before you start living again. Values provide a direction even when circumstances are not ideal. As Will puts it in his course, the useful question is essentially: What matters to you? What brings meaning, connection or energy to your life, and how can you keep moving towards some of that even when sleep has been difficult?
Is ACT just mindfulness?
No.
Mindfulness and present-moment awareness are part of ACT, but they are only a part of the model. ACT also includes acceptance, learning to unhook from thoughts, taking a wider perspective, identifying your values and actually doing things that move you towards them. You therefore do not have to become somebody who meditates for an hour every day in order to use ACT. In fact you don't have to meditate at all.
For sleep, it can be much more everyday than that: getting better at noticing when you're clock-watching, spotting that your mind has started forecasting tomorrow as doom and gloom again, recognising the urge to cancel everything after another hard night, and choosing what you want to do next during your day that matters to you.
What does the research say about ACT for insomnia?
ACT-specific research has grown. An updated 2026 meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials found that ACT produced meaningful improvements in insomnia symptoms compared with waitlist or standard-control conditions. In that analysis, insomnia severity outcomes were not significantly different between ACT and CBT-I (the main gold standard treatment) immediately after treatment or at six-month follow-up.
ACT is a credible and increasingly studied approach to insomnia and sleep-related struggle, with a different emphasis that may particularly resonate with people who have become caught in pressure, worry, control and repeatedly find themselves struggling with sleep.
Furthermore, ACT is a well-established, evidence-based psychological approach that has been studied extensively across a wide range of mental health difficulties, including anxiety, depression and chronic stress. It has a substantial and growing body of research supporting its effectiveness.The approach itself is far from new and it's grounded in decades of psychological research and clinical practice.
How is ACT different from CBT-I?
There is overlap between psychological approaches to sleep, and in practice clinicians may draw on more than one framework. Broadly, CBT-I focuses directly on the behaviours that can maintain insomnia and usually includes behavioural components such as stimulus control and sleep restriction or sleep compression.
ACT places greater emphasis on changing your relationship with difficult thoughts, feelings around sleep and wakefulness itself, through building psychological flexibility and continuing to live according to your values even when sleep is not exactly as you would like it to be. Sluzzle's current courses specifically draw on ACT and Compassion Focused Therapy, rather than delivering a standard CBT-I protocol.
How Sluzzle uses ACT for sleep
Sluzzle gives you access to different clinician-led courses rather than one single voice or one rigid formula. Our clinicians approach the subject slightly differently, but they share a common direction using the ACT framework: less pressure to make sleep happen; less fighting with every thought that appears at night; more flexibility in how you respond; and more space for the rest of your life.
The aim is not perfect sleep every night. It is to help make sleep less loaded, less frightening and less of a problem to solve.
Scientific studies on ACT for sleep
1) Updated meta-analysis comparing ACT and CBT-I ; Barroso et al ; Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine ; August 2026
2) Meta-analysis of internet-based ACT for sleep ; Fu et al ; Scientific Reports ; June 2026
3) Randomised trial comparing ACT with CBT-I ; El Rafihi-Ferreira et al ; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ; June 2026
4) ACT combined with self-compassion for insomnia ; Miller-Mendes et al ; British Journal of Clinical Psychology ; June 2026
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An ACT & CFT based approach helping you to improve your relationship with sleep.
Sluzzle offers educational help for everyday sleep challenges and isn’t designed for medical sleep disorders.
©2026 Sluzzle - All rights reserved. Address: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE
An ACT & CFT based approach helping you to improve your relationship with sleep.
Sluzzle offers educational help for everyday sleep challenges and isn’t designed for medical sleep disorders.
©2026 Sluzzle - All rights reserved. Address: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE