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For People Who Cannot Sleep
May 18, 2026
✦ For People With Sleep Problems ✦
For My Patients Who Cannot Sleep.
Sleep is a skill. The body knows how to do it. The problem is that the nervous system, the gut, and the breath have all forgotten. Inside our community there is a course built around an ancient Chinese practice that helps the body remember.
Brehan Crawford, MAcOM, LAc · Crawford Wellness
Sleep is one of the most common reasons patients arrive at my clinic, and one of the most layered to address. Some cannot fall asleep. Some wake up at two or three in the morning and cannot return. Some sleep for eight hours and still wake exhausted. Some have all three, in rotation, depending on the week.
What I have learned in twenty years of practice is that sleep problems are rarely just sleep problems. They are nervous system problems, gut problems, hormonal problems, sometimes emotional problems that have nowhere else to surface. The good news is that the body knows how to sleep. The work is making the conditions safe enough for it to remember.
Dr. Andrew Miles and I built our free Gut Brain Synchrony community on Skool to share this work. Below is a map of what is in there for someone with sleep issues — and how to use it.
“Sleep Skill is a thousand years old. It was built by people who also did not sleep, and who learned how to.”
Dr. Andrew Miles
What's Inside
The resources I send my sleep patients to first.
5-Class Course · The Heart of It
The Healing Sleep Course
Dr. Miles' flagship sleep course, built around Sleep Skill — an ancient Chinese self-healing practice layered with modern neuroscience. Five classes. Many members fall asleep during the classes themselves. That is by design.
PDF · Member-Created
The Sleep Strategies PDF
A community member named Crystal distilled the Healing Sleep course into a downloadable PDF organised by sleep concern type. Especially useful if watching long videos is hard for you right now — common with Long COVID or neurological symptoms.
Practice · Three Minutes
"Improve Sleep Quality" Video
A three-minute video inside the Essential Self Care Exercises course. Practical, immediate. Watch it once and use it nightly.
Practice · The Spinal Wave
Inner Garden Reset, Stage 4
Three minutes before bed. Discharges the day from the nervous system. Crystal tracked nearly thirty extra minutes of deep sleep on her wearable after adding this to her nightly routine.
Reading · Pinned in Gems
"Anger and Sleep" — Dr. Andrew Miles
If you wake between two and four in the morning, read this first. It is the classic liver qi stagnation pattern in TCM — often anger held quietly under the surface. Ancient text alongside modern cortisol research.
Find Your Pattern
Which night is yours?
Sleep does not break in one way. These are the patterns I see most often, and the door I would open first for each one once you are inside the community.
Waking between two and four in the morning
Read Dr. Miles' Anger and Sleep post first. Ask about Xiao Yao San.
Cannot fall asleep at all
Start with a warm foot soak and one hundred slow exhales. The 1-2-3 microbiome series is the longer answer — the gut and the nervous system are entangled here.
Eight hours, still exhausted
Non-restorative sleep. Often gut-related, sometimes apnea. Begin with Botanical Gut Gardening; consider a sleep study if it persists.
Fragmented — many small wake-ups
Hormonal cycling, perimenopause, or chronic illness rhythms. Search the community for Sleep Maintenance and read the practitioner responses underneath.
If you do not yet know which pattern is yours, Dr. Miles has a thread inside the community called "How is your sleep?" — post in it and he will respond with video guidance.
Tonight is the place to start.
Free to join. Free forever, if that is what you want. The Healing Sleep course is fully accessible to all members.
Join Gut Brain SynchronyThe Nightly Practice
Four things, before bed.
Crystal, the member I mentioned, documented a thirty-minute increase in deep sleep — measured on her tracker — from a combination of these four. Begin with whatever you can manage tonight.
One · A warm foot soak. Ten to fifteen minutes. Pulls energy down out of the head.
Two · One hundred breaths, counted. Slow, audible exhales. Counting is the medicine.
Three · The spinal wave. Stage four of the Inner Garden Reset. Three minutes.
Four · The "Improve Sleep Quality" video, watched once. Then practiced nightly.
Ready When You Are
Sleep can be learned again.
The body knows how. The community has the framework, the practice, and the people who have already walked this road. Come in.
Sleep well. — Brehan Crawford, MAcOM, LAc
This content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. If you are taking prescription medication for sleep, please consult with a qualified healthcare provider before starting new herbs or practices. This article contains affiliate links to the Gut Brain Synchrony Skool community and Chorus Capsules. · Join the Community · © Crawford Wellness · crawford-wellness.com
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