Circadian rhythm
The internal clock that regulates sleep, wakefulness, temperature and hormones across roughly twenty-four hours.
How it shows up
The rhythm is set mainly by light. Late screens, shift work and irregular waking times shift it — and once it is shifted, sleep doesn’t arrive at the hour you’d like.
What we do with it in therapy
With insomnia, the strongest lever is a fixed waking time, not a fixed bedtime. Morning light matters more here than evening darkness.
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See also
Midlife crisis
The period in which you ask whether the life you have built is really yours.
Diagnosis in psychotherapy
A description of a difficulty that guides the work — not a label that says who you are.
Forgiveness
The decision to stop demanding payment for the past — but not that the act was acceptable.
