Most people have experienced a time in their lives when sleep was problematic. Most of us have also known someone who has a serious sleep disorder. Poor sleep affects every part of our lives, psychological, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Having a family member who has battled sleep issues for most of his life without medication, I was drawn to Sound Sleep Sound Mind because it offers a drug-free approach with mind-body techniques for getting a good night’s sleep.
Sound Sleep Sound Mind helps you to understand what quality sleep is in addition to helping understand how the mind and body can actually cause poor sleep. Krakow puts the ball in your corner by providing key questions, guidelines and step-by-step inventories to help address the psychological and physical factors that may be causing the sleep problem.
Sound Sleep might not provide everything you need to address you and your loved one’s sleep problems, but this book should not be taken lightly. I learned some new things about sleep and was also reminded of things I already knew. The latter is particularly important because we often take sleep and rest for granted. As adults, we no longer have a mom or a dad as caretakers of our sleeping time, and much is still to be learned and remembered in the practice of getting a good night’s sleep.
Sound Sleep Sound Mind by Barry Krakow (Wiley, 2007)
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