Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Teach Yourself to Sleep
Kate Mikhail · 2021
74/100
👍 Worth It
Kate Mikhail writes as someone who has lived insomnia, not just researched it, and that personal grounding makes the science feel approachable rather than clinical. The integrative approach that blends CBT-I with cognitive hypnotherapy is genuinely differentiated from standard sleep books, and the clinician-developed sleep scripts are immediately usable. Skeptics of hypnotherapy may bounce off one chapter, but the rest of the book stands on solid ground.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance74
craft76
originality72
accuracy70
hype68
age-fit85
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict74
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