About Fearless Sleep and its author
My name is Alina. I’m the creator of Fearless Sleep and a sleep coach certified by The Sleep Coach School.
I guess this is the place where people usually write about their fancy titles, shiny medals and 30+ years of experience in the field, and so on and so forth.
I don’t have any of that. When I was choosing my career path more than a decade ago, I could never have imagined that I would develop insomnia in my mid-20s, recover from it, and eventually discover a passion for sharing what I’d learned with others.
So, I’m not a sleep doctor, psychotherapist, or any other kind of medical or mental health professional – nor do I pretend to be one.
I’m someone who went through the horrors of insomnia, spent a lot of time and energy trying to understand what was happening to me, did a ton of trial and error, and eventually got my life back.
Read my full insomnia recovery story
Along that very bumpy journey, I started to understand the vicious cycle I was caught in:
worrying → not sleeping → worrying about not sleeping → struggling even more
Once I understood that cycle, insomnia became much less mysterious. I began to see how my fear of sleeplessness, my reactions to being awake, and all the things I was doing to protect my sleep were unintentionally keeping the struggle alive.
And slowly, I learned to do things differently.
That experience eventually became Fearless Sleep.
I started sharing what I had learned in the hope that it might help someone else who found themselves in the same strange situation. And eventually, people started writing to me to say that these ideas were helping them make sense of their own experience and change the way they approached sleep.
Since then, I’ve spent years creating educational content about insomnia, working with people struggling with sleep anxiety, and building Fearless Sleep into the resource it is today.
A lot of my work is influenced by ideas around acceptance, exposure to feared experiences, and self-compassion. None of these ideas are new. What surprises me is how rarely they’ve been applied to insomnia.
I don’t claim to have the one right approach to insomnia. Different ideas and different teachers resonate with different people. But if you’ve read or watched a few of my things and caught yourself thinking, “That’s exactly what I’ve been going through!” – then you might find a lot of value here.
Because while the details of our insomnia stories can be remarkably different, underneath them we often find familiar patterns.
And once we begin to understand those patterns, insomnia might stop looking like an unpredictable monster and become something we know how to work with.
Good luck on your path 🍀
Alina