Working with Dr. Jill McGarry
#4
#4
Understanding your experience with sleep
Understanding your experience with sleep
Understanding your experience with sleep
Beginning to describe and make sense of what’s been happening for you.
ACT
Post Video Reflection
Post Video Reflection
Notice
When something disturbs you at night, do you objectively describe what happened, or immediately begin analysing what it means?
When something disturbs you at night, do you objectively describe what happened, or immediately begin analysing what it means?
Try
Try
If you are awake tonight, could you describe the feel of the sheet or pillow as though explaining it to someone who has never touched one?
If you are awake tonight, could you describe the feel of the sheet or pillow as though explaining it to someone who has never touched one?
Live
Live
Which everyday object will you use tomorrow to practise detailed noticing?
Which everyday object will you use tomorrow to practise detailed noticing?
I've answered these (e.g. in my notebook)
Session Recap
01
Description creates psychological distance
Describing a nighttime experience turns you into an observer of what is happening. Description focuses on what is directly present, while analysis searches for causes, meanings and future solutions. At night, that analysis can keep the brain’s problem-solving mode active, whereas description can create a helpful distance.
01
Description creates psychological distance
Describing a nighttime experience turns you into an observer of what is happening. Description focuses on what is directly present, while analysis searches for causes, meanings and future solutions. At night, that analysis can keep the brain’s problem-solving mode active, whereas description can create a helpful distance.
02
Use the senses to anchor attention
Touch, temperature, shape, colour, sound and smell provide concrete information about the present moment. Sensory detail gives attention somewhere specific to return when sleep worries begin expanding.
02
Use the senses to anchor attention
Touch, temperature, shape, colour, sound and smell provide concrete information about the present moment. Sensory detail gives attention somewhere specific to return when sleep worries begin expanding.
03
Practise without creating another rule
Detailed noticing skills become easier through daytime practice, but the practice does not need a strict schedule. The aim is to build familiarity so the skill is available and useful when the mind becomes busy at night.
03
Practise without creating another rule
Detailed noticing skills become easier through daytime practice, but the practice does not need a strict schedule. The aim is to build familiarity so the skill is available and useful when the mind becomes busy at night.
Next Session
Staying present with the breath each night
Staying present with the breath each night
How the breath can help you stay anchored in the present moment when difficulties arise.
How the breath can help you stay anchored in the present moment when difficulties arise.
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
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