OP -- I have suffered from insomnia forever. It is very annoying for me but I am able to function. It definitely impacts my health and feelings so I have been trying to better focus on it. There are so many great suggestions here. The only thing I can add that helped me is keeping a sleep journal/log. It was annoying but very insightful. I wrote down -- how I felt in the morning, the weather ( a huge impact for me and not controllable), what I ate and when, activities (exercise, sitting, meditation, outside time, etc). I wrote everything down in one journal. Some nights I slept well, others not so much. Sometimes I felt great but had few hours of sleep. Hmm. After a few weeks patterns started to emerge and I was able to change my habits when I saw that certain things were working. Often I had to try things for several nights, one aspect was not a magic bullet. For me the things that help are -- no caffeine, no alcohol, meditating every day for a few minutes, no technology for at least an hour at night, darkened room, warm bath every day (with epsom salts/magnesium 3x a week), reading with reading lamp in dark room. I need to start keeping the journal again because I have been having trouble sleeping once again. Thanks for posting about this -- I learned a whole lot. Hope this helps you.