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Scenario

When parent and child both struggle with sleep after family trauma

My teenage daughter has been having nightmares and sleep anxiety since her dad and I divorced, and I don't know how to help her without bringing my own sleep issues into it — I've been insomniac since the separation too. We both lie awake in our separate rooms not wanting to burden each other, but I think we need to figure out how to heal our sleep together somehow.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared trauma is creating parallel sleep disturbances that family members are trying to solve in isolation.

Your guide for this
Dipa
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sleep — the science and the practice across traditions?”

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