Sleep Tight: Reset Your Relationship With Sleep - by Dylan James

COURSE

Sleep Tight: Reset Your Relationship With Sleep

With Dylan James

If you’re tired but your mind will not switch off, this course was made for you. Sleep Tight is a practical, psychology-informed sleep course designed to help you understand why sleep becomes a struggle and what to do about it. Across five guided sessions, you’ll learn how to release the day, step back from looping thoughts, settle into the body, and build a simple sleep anchor you can use on any night. The course finishes by helping you shift the story you may have been carrying about yourself and sleep, so rest can begin to feel less like a battle and more like something your body already knows how to do. Expect a blend of clear psychoeducation, calming guided meditation, breath awareness, body-based practices, and gentle visualisation, all delivered in a grounded, reassuring way.

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Meet your Teacher

Dylan James
Melbourne VIC, Australia

Dylan Henry is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher who is passionate about helping people find greater calm, balance, and rest in their everyday lives. With experience across psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, mindfulness, and guided meditation, he brings a thoughtful and grounded approach to supporting better sleep and nervous system regulation. His teaching blends therapeutic insight with a soothing, accessible style that helps listeners feel safe, supported, and gently guided towards deeper rest.

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5 Days

7 students

No ratings

16 min / day

Relax

English

Lesson 1

Why Your Brain Fights Sleep

This module sets the foundation for the entire course. Rather than jumping straight into practice, we start with understanding, because knowing what's actually happening in your nervous system when sleep won't come changes your relationship to the problem entirely. You'll learn about the two biological systems that govern sleep, how chronic stress and worry create a conditioned arousal response in the body, and why trying harder to sleep tends to make things worse. You're not broken, you're stuck in a loop. And loops can change.

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Lesson 2

Releasing The Day

Sleep difficulty often isn't just about what happens at night; it's about everything that didn't get resolved during the day following you into bed. This module is a full guided meditation designed to help you make the transition from the demands of the day to genuine rest. Using a visualisation practice for organising unresolved thoughts, followed by a thorough body scan meditation, this session works with both the psychological and physical residue that keeps the nervous system on alert after hours.

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Lesson 3

Quieting The Thinking Mind

This module is for the person whose body can relax but whose mind absolutely will not stop. If you've ever lain in the dark running through tomorrow's to-do list, rehearsing a conversation, or replaying something that happened three years ago, this practice is for you. Using mindfulness of thought techniques drawn from contemplative and psychological traditions, you'll learn to observe thoughts without following them, and to gradually withdraw the energy that keeps them running. The practice doesn't try to stop thinking, that's impossible. It changes your relationship to the thoughts so they lose their grip.

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Lesson 4

Enough For Today

This is the emotional centrepiece of the course, and the most distinctive practice in the series. Drawing on the loving-kindness meditation tradition, this module uses warmth directed inward as a pathway into rest. It starts with an honest acknowledgement that self-compassion can feel awkward, especially for people who are used to pushing through. Then it moves through a series of simple phrases: May I be at ease, may I rest, may I be well, offered gently and without pressure. The day is done. You did enough.

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Lesson 5

Building Your Sleep Identity

The final module of the course takes a step back from technique and works at the level of identity, because one of the most persistent and underestimated drivers of sleep difficulty is the story a person carries about themselves as a sleeper. This session uses a values reflection and a future self visualisation to help you build a new, more accurate relationship with rest. One that isn't defined by the hard nights, but by what's become possible across this course. You'll also receive guidance on how to continue the practice beyond these five nights, which modules to return to and when, and how to keep updating the story as things improve.

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