Inspyrd

02/20/2026

It Is Friday Ask Me Anything.
Seriously, absolutely anything,
however
I will only answer questions about coaching, NLP, AMR (ask me what that is)!!

01/30/2026

The latest newsletter is out.
This week, we explore trauma-related insomnia—not as a sleep problem, but as a nervous system organized around protection. When vigilance remains high, rest doesn’t arrive through effort or technique. It arrives when regulation restores physiological safety.
If sleep has felt elusive despite doing “all the right things,” this perspective may help clarify what’s actually needed.
📩 Read the full blog post here:

Trauma-related insomnia isn’t about doing sleep “wrong.” It’s your nervous system staying on alert, rest arrives only when your body feels safe enough to stand down.

01/29/2026

Trauma-related insomnia isn’t a failure to sleep.
It’s a nervous system organized around protection.
After trauma, the system learns unpredictability.
At night—when light, sound, and movement drop—internal vigilance increases.
The body rests.
Monitoring doesn’t.
This isn’t anxiety as a thought pattern.
It’s detection bias encoded in neural circuitry.
Sleep requires physiological safety.
Until the nervous system can disengage from monitoring, sleep remains light, fragmented, or absent.
When regulation is restored—rhythm, orientation, sensory safety—the system stands down.
Not because it’s forced to…
but because it can.
Sleep follows regulation.

When people experience trauma-related insomnia, the problem is rarely a lack of effort or poor sleep habits.They are exhausted.Their body is still.Yet sleep ...