Shelby Harris - 2 July

ADVANCE PRAISE

Women face more than a few unique sleep challenges and Shelby Harris has provided a straightforward, comprehensive, and much-needed resource to explain whats going on and, more importantly, what to do about it. She expertly guides the reader through state-of-the-art treatment for insomnia using her clinical experience to illustrate how even the trickiest situations can be conquered.

Janet Krone Kennedy, Ph.D., author of The Good Sleeper: The Essential Guide to Sleep for Your Baby (and You) and founder of NYC Sleep Doctor

Dr. Harriss book is an important contribution to our understanding of the unique and often overlooked issues related to insomnia in women. A range of hormonal and lifestyle changes over the course of womens lives negatively affect their sleep patterns, and Shelby Harris provides useful, clear, and easily implementable strategies for combating insomnia at all stages of a womens life from her years of clinical experience. Essential reading for any woman trying to understand and overcome her sleep disorder.

Renee Monderer, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center

Most insomnia books do not address the unique biological alterations of sleep throughout a womans life even though insomnia disproportionately impacts women. In this extraordinary, one-of-a-kind book, Shelby Harris finally talks directly to women about this issue. She is, without a doubt, the best sleep psychologist, having helped countless women sleep wonderfully through the night. This book is unimaginably easy to read yet scientifically sound. It summarizes with ease a complex yet essential treatment modality for insomnia, i.e., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. After reading it, women from any stage of life can conquer their insomnia once and for all!

Neomi Shah, M.D., MPH, M.S., Associate Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, ABIM Board Certified in Sleep Medicine

With clarity and compassion, Shelby Harris translates complex concepts and counterintuitive approaches into well-defined strategies that will restore sleep health and vitality. Harris offers comfort, support, and guidance to the paralyzing voice that fears the ability to sleep is lost. The Womens Guide to Overcoming Insomnia blends years of clinical experience, knowledge of sleep medicine, insightful application, and empathycreating a trusted companion to any woman in need.

Rebecca Q. Scott, Ph.D., Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine, Research Assistant Professor of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine

This book is packed full of useful tips and information for every woman who wants to achieve more consolidated, deeper sleep on a regular basis. Whether you have chronic insomnia, an occasional bad nights sleep, or any sleep disruption in between, Shelby Harris will have you sleeping more soundly in no time. This book clearly details the gold standard treatment for insomnia, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), in an approachable and entertaining way. You will learn to identify factors that trigger and maintain your insomnia, about sleep stealers that negatively impact sleep, and how hormonal cycles affect sleep. Dr. Harris will help you identify and better understand your sleep patterns and then, most importantly, improve them with scientifically-supported interventions. I will recommend this book to all of my patients.

Rene D. Zweig, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Certified Cognitive Therapist, and Director of Union Square Cognitive Therapy

Easy to read, comprehensive, and full of useful information, this book gives helpful advice on practical lifestyle changes and sleep-specific techniques. Often used by sleep specialists, techniques such as sleep restriction therapy, stimulus control, cognitive therapy, and mindfulness can easily be performed by the patient. This is a book that every woman should read to understand good sleep practices, not only those with sleep difficulties.

Michael Thorpy, M.D., Director, Sleep-Wake Disorders Center, Montefiore Medical Center, and Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, author of Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders