When You Can’t Sleep
We’ve all been there. The clock ticks. The ceiling becomes your best friend. You close your eyes, and instead of drifting off, your thoughts keep knocking on the door. First things first: don’t panic.
When You Can’t Sleep
🌱 Seeded by CJB today
When Insomnia Calls
The night won’t sleep,
as random thoughts creep.
Curtain shadows stretch,
time hides emotions I can't fetch.
Yet in this Alice in Wonderland state,
an unexpected seed begins to grow—
underneath the anxiety and worry,
there's a sense of love I will always know.
Don't Panic!
We’ve all been there!
The clock ticks. The ceiling becomes your best friend. You close your eyes, and instead of drifting off, your thoughts keep knocking on the door.
First things first: don’t panic.
Not sleeping isn’t a personal failure. In fact, if you look back at the earliest days of humankind, sleep wasn’t a perfect eight-hour block anyway. People woke whenever they needed to—sometimes to tend a fire, sometimes to protect the tribe, sometimes to listen for the howl of predators in the dark. Rest happened in cycles, in phases, in whatever way life required.
So, when you’re awake at 2 a.m., remember: this is not abnormal. It’s ancient. It’s human. It's the time your soul grows something beautiful in you.
The Soul Act of Creating
When wakefulness visits uninvited, instead of battling it, you can choose to act. This is where The Act of Creating comes alive.
Ask yourself: What can I create from this moment?
- A poem whispered into your phone notes.
- A few journal lines about what’s weighing on you.
- A sketch, a song lyric, a doodle, even if it feels messy.
If something woke you or is keeping you awake, write lovingly about it. Give it shape instead of letting it hover unformed in your head. Often, what we resist keeps us awake. What we welcome and create from loses its grip.
Creation turns insomnia into a quiet companion rather than an enemy. It becomes an act of love: for yourself, for your restlessness, even for the thoughts that won’t quit.
A Different Kind of Rest
Sometimes, after writing or creating, you’ll find your body naturally softens and finally drifts into sleep. Other times, you might not. And that’s okay. Because creating is also a kind of rest—it grounds you, it releases pressure, it connects you back to your soul.
Instead of losing a night of sleep, you may just be gaining a piece of yourself you’d otherwise have missed.
So the next time you can’t sleep, don’t fight it. Pick up your pen, your instrument, your voice. Let the night open a door to your creativity.
Because insomnia doesn’t always have to steal from you. Sometimes, it can gift you something new—something worth sensing, worth loving, worth creating.
🌱 LOVE * EVERYTHING * TODAY! Even the sleepless nights.
Let it root. 🌱
Right. Gotta grow! 🌱
Lots of love,
CJB 💚
