For me, nights have always been difficult. This was the time of most of my abuse, and it's also the time for the majority of flashbacks, and the least amount of support and logical thinking.

As well, night is when my parts all seem to become the loudest, and I have a hard time sorting through the issues, and trying to figure out who needs what kind of reassuring, validation or acknowledgement. Can anyone else relate?

I have great tools to distract myself, but that only puts off the falling asleep process, it doesn't make it go away, or even last much less time. I get overwhelmed because I'm trying to calm down the parts so that I can sleep, but i'm also feeling upset about things, and can't always be the voice of reason and reassurance I wish I could. A few of my parts are young, and they are scared in the dark, but we can't sleep with any light. Sometimes I wish the sun would never set, and people could just sleep during the day. Ok I'm rambling....

Does anyone have nightly routines that help them out, or ways of keeping things calm? I'd love to hear any suggestions. I plan on asking my t the next time I see him, but with the holidays we've had a bit of a break...

Thanks in advance,
IJ