“I was one of those determined to have it all,” she says. “I’d work until 2 or 3 a.m. because we needed the output. I loved it. And I’d routinely take the red-eye home from the West Coast to catch my daughter before she went to preschool.”

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"Insomnia plagues people in huge numbers, and once the body has asserted an erratic sleeping pattern, it can be very hard to break. Sleep restriction therapy (part of CBT) is one potential method of breaking such patterns."

“The treatment over the years was really just putting out fires,” says Rose. “CBT-I was so dramatically different from anything I’d done. The underlying frustration about insomnia is that in some ways there’s really nothing to talk about. With CBT-I it was like let’s not talk about it, let’s just do it. It was really liberating….”