About Dan Plants

I'm Dan Plants. I had tinnitus years ago and habituated to it without really trying, and I lived habituated for about ten years.

In April 2020, at 34, an ear infection pulled me right back out of it. I was terrified I would never habituate again. The fear turned into insomnia and medical anxiety, and at one point I could not sleep for four days straight. I went to a hospital for an evaluation and decided not to admit myself.

What brought me back was slow and unglamorous: sitting with the sound on purpose, walking in the woods, and learning to stop treating the ringing as an emergency. I felt much better after six to eight months, with setbacks along the way. I habituated again, and these days I travel the world.

Now I coach people through the same thing. Everything on this blog comes from my own videos and my own experience. I am not a doctor, so for anything medical please see an audiologist or ENT.