The Cohesive Sleep System:
7 Days to Rewire Your Sleep™
Finally fall asleep without fighting your mind
A nervous-system-based approach for overthinkers who've tried everything and still can't shut off at night
Start tonight. Try the first three nights free, no card required.
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You know this feeling.
You’re exhausted — the kind of exhausted that should mean instant sleep.
But the moment you lie down, your mind starts.
The replaying, the planning, the scanning for problems you forgot to solve.
Your body is ready to rest. Something inside you won’t let it.
Maybe you’ve been here for months. Maybe years.
And the worst part isn’t the tired days — it’s the quiet dread that builds every evening as bedtime approaches, knowing tonight will probably be the same.
This isn't a discipline problem.
You're not broken.
And you're not imagining it.
Your body is doing something very specific — and there's a reason.
CLINICIAN’S NOTE
A word from Elizabeth.
“Your sleep isn’t broken — your body has just been doing its best to keep you safe. This course helps you rebuild a genuine sense of safety by gently reminding your system that it’s okay to let go and truly rest.”
You’ve tried:
- The sleep hygiene checklist
- No screens an hour before bed
- A cool room
- A dark room
- No caffeine after noon
- Morning sunlight first thing when you wake
Or maybe you went even further and tried...
- A supplement stack
- A weighted blanket
- A white noise machine
None of it stuck. And it’s not because you did it wrong.
Here’s what most sleep advice misses.
The tips aren't wrong — they just don't go deep enough. Because most sleep problems aren't a habit problem. It's a nervous system pattern.
When part of your system has learned that staying alert is how you stay safe, no bedtime routine alone is going to reach that deep.
Your body isn't failing to sleep. A part of you is actively keeping watch — because it believes it still needs to.
But there’s a different way to approach this — one that works with your body instead of against it.
"Sleep doesn't follow effort.
Sleep follows safety."
When your nervous system receives clear, consistent signals that it’s safe to stand down — through the body, not through reasoning, something can begin to shift.
The scanning can slow.
The vigilance can soften.
And rest becomes possible.
Not because you forced it, but because you created the conditions to finally allow it.
This course works at the level most approaches never reach. It:
- Sends your body repeated cues of safety — night after night — so the signal can take hold
- Works with the parts of you that stay on guard, rather than trying to override them
- Is designed to help shift your nervous system’s state, not just your habits
When your system finally feels safe, sleep stops being something you force — and becomes something that finds you.
THE SOLUTION
Inside The Cohesive Sleep System™, you'll move through a 7-phase process, one night at a time:
Phase 1: Disarm the Alarm. Understand what your nervous system has learned about bedtime and why sleep follows safety, not effort.
Phase 2: Downshift the System. Begin engaging your body's natural settling response — and meet the protective part of you that's been working so hard to stay alert.
Phase 3: Rewire the Bed. Use guided imagery to interrupt the conditioned alarm response around bedtime itself.
Phase 4: Install the Stack. See how your system scans for safety below awareness, add gentle touch cues, and build your Nightly Stack — the simple sequence you'll lean on each night.
Phase 5: Anchor Connection. Let connection — a steady person, a pet, even the weight of a blanket — help your system settle through co-regulation.
Phase 6: Integrate the Change. Explore what can keep a system stuck — history, biology, or simply a more sensitive nervous system — and meet it with realistic self-compassion.
Phase 7: Sustain the Shift. Your Maintenance Map — a one-page guide for keeping the work alive long after the course ends.
The 3-Step Practice That Anchors Every Night
Every day of the course builds the same simple sequence — so by Day 7, your body is beginning to know what to do without you having to think about it.
Habit — one small sensory cue that tells your system the day is over.
Touch + Breathing — gentle self-contact and slow, resonant exhales that signal safety.
Audio — let the recording carry you the rest of the way.
By the end of the week, the sequence begins to feel familiar — and familiarity is part of how the nervous system learns safety.
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CLINICALLY GROUNDED
Created by a clinician. Designed for real people.
This program was developed from years of clinical work with anxious sleepers, blending neuroscience, parts work, gentle sleep hypnosis, and Polyvagal-informed tools — in a way that respects the nervous system’s natural timing.
It was created by Elizabeth Carter, a licensed clinical mental health counselor, trauma specialist, and certified clinical hypnotherapist.
Based in Switzerland, she maintains a private practice and works as a clinician at Paracelsus Recovery—an exclusive residential treatment center for UHNW individuals, CEOs, and high-profile clients.
Over the past seven years, she has worked with people navigating anxiety, sleep disturbances, and chronic nervous system overload.
Through that work, one thing has remained consistent: when used gently and ethically, clinical hypnosis is one of the most effective ways to help the body access a felt sense of safety—often more directly than cognitive approaches alone.
This program brings those same principles beyond the therapy room—into a simple, self-paced format designed to make this work more accessible.
You can also explore her approach on the Cohesion Hypnosis YouTube channel,
Elizabeth Carter, MSc, NCC, LCMHC
What You’ll Get Inside the Sleep System
Each day includes a short teaching audio and written lesson that explains sleep issues and Polyvagal theory in clear, accessible language.A 60-minute core sleep through hypnosis recording designed for you to listen to as you drift off, gently building new associations of safety night after night.5‑minute Resonance Breathing Animation to signal immediate safety to your internal alarmA 15-minute bedtime safety visualization recording designed to help your body release alertness and recognize your bed as a place of safety.and self‑blame that often spike when you can’t sleep
Realistic Self‑Compassion Affirmations and emergency phrases you can use any time you feel stuck during the course—along with an 18-minute audio for optional nighttime listening. Support and reflection guides, including a Physiology Self-Check and a Doctor Conversation Checklist, to help you advocate for yourself if a biological factor may be in play.One‑page Sleep Maintenance Map with simple prompts so you know how to keep using what you’ve learned after the 7 daysBEYOND BEDTIME
Recovery doesn’t just happen at 2:00 AM.
Meet your daytime support system.
The Quiet Mind Sleep Journal
The companion that makes the work last through the day, not just at night.
A polyvagal and parts-work-informed journal designed to deepen the course practice every day.
Across 7 days of evening and morning reflections, you'll map your nervous system state, meet the Protector Parts that get loud at night (the Vigilant Planner, the Inner Critic, the Hypervigilant Scanner, and more), and find your Resourced Self, the steady, compassionate part of you that can hold whatever shows up.
Three short nervous system regulation audios, built into every daily check-in.
The journal isn't only a writing practice. Each day's check-in pairs your reflection with one of three short audios designed to regulate your nervous system in the moment, so the work moves through your body, not just onto the page:
- Autonomic State Check-In — Pause and notice where your nervous system is right now, without needing to fix or change anything.
- Shake & Settle — Move stored tension out of your body so it doesn't follow you into bed.
- Coming Back In — Gently return to your body when you feel checked out, foggy, or disconnected.
Sleep doesn't start when you lie down. It starts with how regulated your body has been all day. The more your nervous system practices regulation in daylight, the more easily it can settle when night comes.
Available as an optional add-on at checkout for $27.
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THE COHESIVE SLEEPERS CIRCLE
A 60-Minute Monthly Live Group Session with Elizabeth
& Ongoing Community Support System
Still working through it after the 7 days?
You don't have to do it alone.
Sleep doesn't always rewire in a straight line. If you find yourself stuck with a part that won't settle, a pattern that keeps returning, or a night that undoes the progress you've made, the Cohesive Sleepers Circle is where you bring it.
Each month, Elizabeth leads a 60-minute live session:
- 10 minutes of intro
- 20 minutes of guided hypnosis on a theme chosen by the community — sleep, parts that show up at night, somatic release, or whatever the community decides
- 30 minutes of open Q&A — bring your stuck points, your journal questions, and whatever is alive for you that month, directly to Elizabeth
Between sessions, you'll have access to a private community of people doing the same work. It's a place to share what's shifting, ask questions, and hear from others who know exactly what 3am feels like.
"My private practice has been full for years — so this is how I stay connected to the people doing this work. It's the only space outside of private practice where I offer direct, personal support."
Sessions are recorded. Join live or catch the replay.
Exclusive to course members.
Available as an add-on for $42/month.
Hear from Elizabeth about what the Circle is and who it’s for
Listen from bed. Or anywhere else.
This isn’t a course you have to sit at a desk for. Everything — the nightly hypnosis recordings, the daytime regulation audios, the written lessons, and The Cohesive Sleepers Circle community — is available through the free Kajabi mobile app on iOS and Android.
Sign up, download the app, log in with your purchase email, and your full library is there.
For the nights when getting back to sleep matters most: open the app, hit Resume, and the recording picks up where you left off. No laptop. No logging back in. No bright screen searching for the right file when you’re already exhausted.
After you purchase on day 4, you’ll also be able to download every audio file for offline use—so you can listen on a plane, on a walk, or with your phone in airplane mode beside the bed.
Available on iOS and Android. Search “Kajabi” in the App Store or Google Play.
Imagine this.
You get into bed and something is different.
Your body begins to settle — not instantly, but without the fight.
The thoughts are there but quieter. Less urgent.
Your breathing slows on its own. And at some point, without forcing it, you drift.
You wake up and the first thing you notice isn't exhaustion.
It's that you slept.
And that quiet dread that used to build every evening — the tension as bedtime got closer — is starting to loosen.
And the more you return to the practice, the more familiar this can start to feel; until the night arrives where falling asleep isn't something you think about anymore.
Imagine that.
Start For Free Tonight
Try the first 3 nights free. Continue with the full course and you'll receive:
- A $197 value at only $67 today (you save $130)
- 7 nights of clinical hypnosis designed to work with your nervous system
- Daily audio lessons + written guides
- Nightly 60-minute Sleep-Through Hypnosis
- Bedtime Safety Recording
- Resonance Breathing Animation
- Realistic Self-Compassion Affirmations audio + Safety Net Card
- Physiology Checklist & Doctor Conversation Script
- Sleep Maintenance Map
- Lifetime access
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
The first seven days are structured to help you:
Begin to fall asleep faster
Have fewer middle-of-the-night wake-ups
Notice a calmer body before bed
Have less fear around bedtime
Have a clear plan to keep improving
Is hypnosis safe?
Can I do this on my phone?
I’ve tried hypnosis before and it didn’t work. Will this be different?
What if my body doesn’t relax right away?
What if I fall asleep during the recording?
How long does it take?
Do I need special equipment?
Is this coaching or self-paced?
Can I try it before buying?
Is this safe if I have a history of trauma, PTSD, or anxiety?
I’m not based in the US. Will this work for me?
Ready to show your body it's safe to rest?
Start for Free TonightImportant: This course is educational in nature and is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical or psychological care. If you are currently receiving treatment for a mental health condition, please consult your provider before starting. Results vary — individual experiences with this program will differ.