The Bedtime Beatitudes

Whether it’s afternoon naptime or the end of a long day, sleep is one of the most significant forms of separation we human beings experience. Deep and very natural instincts to remain connected in the face of approaching sleep become heightened in our children often for good and healthy reasons. Children are moved to keep their vital connection to us in the face of the “sleep separation” because sleep comes not only with physical separations, but with psychological separations that are sometimes too much for a child to bear.

What if the repeated “Please… one more story!” and “I need another glass of water” requests have more to do with separation and the changing states of consciousness than we realize? What serenity might become possible for sleepy time routines and the natural gifts of sleep if we keep this front of mind? 

A more holistic alternative to traditional sleep training methods and compatible with treatments for most childhood sleep disorder diagnoses, this 4-session series which is typically employed with children over the age of one, supports you in creating an emotionally-restful state in your child's mind and heart as the sun goes down.

You’ll learn key fundamentals of Dr. Gordon Neufeld's attachment approach as well as concrete strategies to address the ways children are moved to keep their vital connection to us in the face of sleep separation.

With your coach’s help, you will also create pre-sleep routines unique to you and your child, working in sync with Nature, and deepening the quality of connection necessary for restful sleep and a renewed sense of blessedness.

Where applicable, the challenge of juggling the attachment needs of multiple children simultaneously is included. The sessions also support you in building a “bridge into the night” maintaining a connection with your child into the realm of sleep in accordance with your family's spiritual beliefs.

In addition to supporting you in reducing your child's alarm, frustration and clinginess and making for smoother sleepy time routines, these attachment-based strategies can also have transformative effects on the transition to sleeping in separate beds, dealing with nightmares, earlier bedroom exits for the tired parent as well as more joyful mornings.