Woman shares therapist’s simple tip for when you can’t get to sleep – and it really does work

A woman who struggles to switch off at night has shared the tip her therapist gave her to help with nodding off – with impressive results.

With worries about the coming week whirring through your head, Sunday night insomnia is a common problem.

Now one woman has shared a therapist’s simple tip for when you can’t sleep – and it could be a game changer.

Emily Bronchu revealed the hack on TikTok, where it’s racked up 98,000 likes, The Sun reports.

“So a therapist gave me this trick for when you can’t sleep, I’m gonna share it with you for free cause I paid for the information,” she said.

“So I was laying in bed and I can’t sleep. I put on my Sleep Stories, I went to bed at a normal time, I just couldn’t sleep. I was tossing and turning, tossing and turning, tossing and turning.”

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A woman has shared a simple hack for when you can’t sleep and it comes from a professional. Picture: TikTok/praisebeprepared

Sound familiar? Well Emily says the key is to “set a time limit”.

“If you’re not sleeping within 20 minutes, get up and write down everything that you’re thinking about and do it until you’re tired and then go back to sleep. And it works,” she said.

“The reason it’s important to get out of bed is that if you stay in bed your brain will eventually connect with ‘I’m supposed to be awake when I am here.’ You don’t want that connection to make you stay up super late, and when you go to bed you’re gonna be tired.”

Emily says you should get out of bed and write down everything which is on your mind. Picture: TikTok/praisebeprepared

It’s important to get out of bed after 20 minutes awake, otherwise your brain will stop associating your bed with sleep. Picture: TikTok/praisebeprepared

Hundreds of people commenting on the clip, with many saying it had worked for them too.

“I LOVE THIS,” one said.

“The reason I stay up is because if I don’t think of everything right that second I think I might forget. But if it’s on paper, no problem.”

A second wrote, “I do something similar when I can’t sleep bc of stress. I get up and write down every single thing I’m stressed about, gets them out of my brain.”

And a third added, “I’ve recently been writing down all my thoughts in my journal before I go to bed and it helps me clear my mind so that I’m not thinking about every possibility.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission