Hi, I'm Clare and I’m a post-menopausal empty-nester and counsellor, recently diagnosed with autism (ASD) trying to process what the heck it all means! I look back over my life and try to understand why I had been feeling like a 'misfit' and SO different from everyone else. I wade through it all, trying to learn how I can break free from the weight of the 'mask', and prepare to explore who I truly am and decipher all those "weird" bits about myself, that have never made sense to me. Armed wi ...
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Hi, Sloggies! At Sleep Like a Log, we like to think we are a nerve-centre for all your bedtime anxiety needs. We are all about helping you reduce your anxiety (whenever it happens) and we have many ways in which we can help: We offer free episodes through Apple Podcasts & Amazon Music: Meditations, visualisations & hypnotherapy, to relax you... Soothing Sounds (no talking) to chill you out... 'Get Back To Sleep' episodes, in case you wake in the night... ASMR sounds with music/voice to give ...
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Highly commended in the Irish Podcast Awards 2023 – Best Sex & Relationships podcast Do you remember all the family gatherings spent discussing the joys of sex around the dinner table? Or the classes in school where your RE teacher showed you how to put a condom on a demonstrator? No? REALLY! If, like us, you didn’t have those cosy conversations about sex growing up, then this is the podcast for you! Big Sexy Talk is brought to you by Informing Choices NI. It is produced in mini-series forma ...
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Hey! I'm Kate Maree O'Brien and I'm deeply passionate about women switching on their inner leadership muscles and being highly effective in what they're out to cause in the world. These days, I'm the founder of SHE, Australasia's largest women's leadership and empowerment event, a multiple business owner with a rockstar team of 11 incredibly committed full-timers, a women's leadership coach, trainer and speaker - and - wife to Henare, and mum to our two teenagers (who keep us on our toes), ...
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Hi Sloggies! This is a new idea for Sleep Like a Log; Positive Thought Engagement. This is where I use words that evoke and re-ignite positive experiences, so that your mind can disengage from negative thoughts, feel uplifted and move into a much better place to be able to settle and rest for the night. SUBSCRIPTION: Join Sleep Like a Log EXTRA and…
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This episode features an in-depth interview with Nick Mathison MLA. Nick is an Alliance Party MLA representing the Strangford constituency, and the Chair of the Education Committee in the Northern Ireland Assembly. During the interview Nick reflects on the messages he received around relationships and sexuality growing up; his views on positive and…
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Settle in and Tingle with Positive Affirmations & Paper Crumpling ASMR Sound 2Hrs
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Hi Sloggies! This is a new idea for Sleep Like a Log; to merge ASMR sound with music AND voice. I hope you like it! The affirmations are for positivity and letting go of your day (starting from approx. 6mins) Duration: 2 Hrs SUBSCRIPTION: Join Sleep Like a Log EXTRA and get 2 BONUS ANXIETY-REDUCING SLEEPY EPISODES per Month, 5 Minute Tips for Bedti…
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Hi Sloggies! This super-gentle visualization guides you through a full body scan, asking you to release tension in your mind and your body... and then moves on to a classic Counting Sheep imagery.... helping you drift away, deep into a good night's sleep SUBSCRIPTION: Join Sleep Like a Log EXTRA and get 2 BONUS ANXIETY-REDUCING SLEEPY EPISODES per …
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I'm flabbergasted! While working on this episode I decided to read a chapter on 'Employment & Career' from Aspergirls ( https://amzn.to/4clW19i ) JUST to see if there was any connection between ASD and how I feel (and what I strongly believe) about working for someone else. And THERE IT WAS - in black and white! Have you been in this situation befo…
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Sanity Vs Money Quandary - What do you Choose? This episode is about my relationship with money - actually, it's more about how I earn it! I feel like my soul is dying when I work for someone else, but... its consistent and a reliable income. My soul screams at me, telling me that for the sake of my sanity, I should be self-employed.. I am stuck in…
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Hey! I'm glad to be back after a bit of a break. This episode is a bit ramble-y. I talk about some family loss over the last few months and also about how I'm managing to keep working in a 'ridiculous' but necessary job that I'm desperate to leave and pursue my dream job. The dream job as a full-time podcaster will eventually become my means of fin…
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Hi Sloggies! Our Sponsor: SheppieFilms.com Are you or someone you know planning a wedding? Sheppie Films is your premier choice for stunning wedding videos across the UK and Europe. Visit Sheppiefilms.com and use code SLEEP20 when you enquire. This a super soothing affirmations episode for bedtime, focusing on love and protection while you fall asl…
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Hey! In this episode, I talk about how I've had differing responses from friends about my 'diagnosis' of ASD and how this has sent me into a bit of a spiral of negative thinking about how 'acceptable' I am to one person in particular. Recommended Reading (These links will redirect you to Amazon. We use affiliate links and may earn a commission) htt…
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Hey! In this episode, I talk about how I am processing the news about having ASD as an older adult. I also talk about how my FOMO nature leads me to wonder whether other people noticed my traits, before I did, and how I'm a bit embarrassed about that, considering I'm a mental health professional.. and didn't pick up on it myself! Recommended Readin…
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Hey! Well it happened! and it wasn't what I thought it would be.. In this episode, I talk about the fall-out after my ADHD assessment. Turns out its ASD! Having a (pre) diagnosis of autism at 55 years old has hit me hard. What does this mean for me now? Why am I feeling a sense of grief and overwhelming sadness at this news? BUT, on the other hand …
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Hi Sloggies! This is a super soothing guided progressive relaxation for bedtime anxiety which uses color, in your mind's eye, to 'fill' your body with calming and healing color energy ..... Guided sleep visualization (New & Improved version) ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', R…
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With an ADHD assessment appointment coming up, I'm forced to think about what that could mean for me. As an older woman, how could my life have been different if this potential diagnosis had been given years before. Whatever happens, it's going to be an opportunity for me to learn more about who I am.. Recommended Reading (These links will redirect…
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Just thinking out loud about loneliness and my fear of being stuck in a country with no-one I know, despite wanting to live in a country where no-one knows me! What could my reality be? Should I have a plan B? The Actualizing Woman is a place where, as a community, listeners are invited to contribute their own experiences of growth, healing and sel…
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Hi Sloggies, I hope you enjoy this mindful body scan, with special attention to your breathing - helping you to focus on your chest rising and sinking... rising and sinking, and the indescribable presence that this creates. I have added some wave sounds at the end, to help you float away. ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/Sleep…
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Get Back to Sleep - with Dreamy Reverie. Short Guided Sleep Meditation to Soothe You Back to Sleep
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Hi Sloggies! I'm SO glad to be back to you all. My apologies for the break in recordings; its been a rough time recently, here at SLAL headquarters! Please have this recording READY TO PLAY in case you wake up in the night. This Get Back To Sleep recording is designed to help you drift back off to sleep if you have woken up in the night. Often when…
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Hi Sloggies! Here are some more gentle and positive affirmations to help relieve your negative and anxious thoughts, helping you drift off into sleep ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Community and One-to-One CBT Counselling/Therapy & Shop. See you over there! SUBSCR…
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Hi Sloggies! This is a calming beach walk with soft sleep-inducing music - Soothing Sounds. Stroll along this sandy summer beach, absorbing the gentle, undulating waves and paddle a little in the clear, warming ripples, before they sink between your sandy toes, into the sand... ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We…
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You're Missing the NOW, Mum! The Teaching of Eckhart Tolle. I recently started to read Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and learned that I had forgotten to notice my 'Life', because I had been concentrating so much on my 'Life Situation'. Powerful and highly valuable teaching, for me, a person who is so hyper-fixated on the future. Recommended Read…
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I talk about all those little reasons why I've chosen to move to France, as opposed to any other country in the world. I reminisce about experiences in France as a teen and other connections to my potential future home country. (If they let me in!) The Actualizing Woman is a place where, as a community, listeners are invited to contribute their own…
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Bedtime Affirmations to Soothe Your Anxious Mind - Sleep Relaxation.. Hi Sloggies, let your subconscious mind do all the work.. just lie there, relax and let the positive and soothing affirmations wash over you ... ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Community and One-…
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Breathing Yourself To Sleep - Engaging Your Parasympathetic System to release anxiety and stress. Hi Sloggies, breathe yourself into a deep restful sleep using this calming breathing technique.. with deliciously soothing music. ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Commu…
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Why do you want to leave Clare? Err.. because I'm rotting in this place! PART 2 I talk even more about some of my reasons for leaving the UK.. I talk about my potential diagnosis of ADHD and what that might mean for me, and also about WHO I will be, and CAN be, living in France. Once again, I talk about the book by Natalie Rogers and quote from thi…
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Why do you want to leave Clare? Err.. because I'm rotting in this place! I talk more in this episode (PART 1) about some of my reasons for leaving the UK (nothing political, I promise) The pull towards living life in a different country and creating a HUGE fresh start are strong and almost instinctual. My plan is to find a place where I can find my…
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Hi Sloggies, here are some gentle, tender affirmations to help you drift off to sleep... all blended into soothing and calming music. ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Community and One-to-One CBT Counselling/Therapy & Shop. See you over there! SUBSCRIPTION: Join Sle…
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The journey has begun. But what's my plan for my actualization? I sat up in bed one night with a damned great light bulb flashing over my head and immediately it all became very clear what I needed to do next in my life. For me to find my ideal conditions for my own self-development and actualization, I needed to find peace and quiet, in my own hom…
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In this episode I outline my three goals and pose some questions for you, to help you work out whether YOU are on course towards being an authentic person, achieving your full potential and heading towards life fulfillment. The Actualizing Woman is a place where, as a community, listeners are invited to contribute their own experiences of growth, h…
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Hi Sloggies, if you are planning to make some changes in your life, perhaps to make your life more fulfilling, healthier or to gain a better work-life balance, then this meditation is for you, especially if you are worrying and doubting your decision. While this meditation soothes you to sleep, it will also help allay your worries and doubts you mi…
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The Sprouting of the Actualizing Tendency. In this episode I talk about potatoes and the tender beginnings of Carl Rogers' actualizing tendency and what it all means (well a concise lesson about it, anyway!) My journey towards achieving my own ideal conditions; by starting a new life in France, embodies this theory - and what a journey it's already…
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Welcome to The Actualizing Woman - This is a short introduction to me, Clare Bailey, and an outline of what to expect in this show. The Actualizing Woman - Seeking and Celebrating Authenticity, Potential and Fulfilment. Hi, I'm Clare and I’m a post-menopausal, pre-diagnosed autistic singleton and entrepreneur with a background as a teacher and choc…
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Hi Sloggies, this is a slow and spacious meditation, to help you drift and sink down into a stillness, between my sleepy words, while you wait for unconsciousness to wash over you ... ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Community and One-to-One CBT Counselling/Therapy …
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Sleep Like a Log Pure Relaxation - Progressive Body Scan
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Hi Sloggies, this is a slow and easy progressive body scan, to help you mindfully check in with your body, from your toes to the top of your head, to release tension in your muscles.. Includes a rainy night and a mesmerizing countdown into a deep deep sleep state.. ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering:…
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Hi Sloggies, this sleep meditation will talk you through how to step out of anxious thoughts at bedtime and settle down into a deep sleep - demoting pesky anxious thoughts, using our ABC method .. Being Aware of your thoughts, Breathing them away and Changing the subject and encourage yourself towards empowering, kind and loving thoughts instead. *…
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Get Back to Sleep with a Mindful Body Scan. Short Guided Sleep Meditation for Waking During the Night.
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Hi Sloggies, have this recording READY TO PLAY in case you wake up in the night. This is the third of 4 Get Back To Sleep recordings, designed to help you drift back off to sleep if you have woken up in the night. Often when we have anxiety we can wake up, for what we feel is no reason. So this recording will guide you gently through a simple, mind…
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Hi Sloggies, for total relaxation, we have recorded a progressive colour breathing meditation / visualization designed to help you seep relaxing calming colour through your body, with your mind. ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Community and One-to-One CBT Counselli…
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Get Back to Sleep with Counting Back. Short Guided Sleep Meditation for Waking During the Night.
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Have this recording READY TO PLAY in case you wake up in the night. This is the second of 4 Get Back To Sleep recordings, designed to help you drift back off to sleep if you have woken up in the night. Often when we have anxiety we can wake up, for what we feel is no reason, but this recording will guide you to gently and slowly count back from 100…
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Sleep Like a Log Total Relaxation. Sleep Meditation for Sleep and Nighttime Anxiety This sleep meditation is a long progressive body scan and soft talking about sleep, and all the ways to fall asleep... followed by a descent down 10 steps. ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Req…
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The Pathway to a Sanctuary of Peaceful Dreaming, Sleep Meditation with Progressive Mindful Relaxation, with Hair Brushing Sounds
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This sleep meditation begins with a mindful progressive body scan, making sure your body is fully relaxed, one part at a time, followed by soothing encouragement to think happy thoughts.... recalling positively wonderful memories of past times, or dreaming of "heart-warming thoughts of fanciful imaginings"... anything to take your mind away from an…
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Get Back to Sleep with Breathing and Affirmations. Short Guided Sleep Meditation for Waking During the Night.
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Have this recording READY TO PLAY in case you wake up in the night. This is the first of 4 Get Back To Sleep recordings, designed to help you drift back off to sleep if you have woken up in the night. Often when we have anxiety we can wake up, for what we feel is no reason, but this recording will guide you gently through a simple, soothing breathi…
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Calm Your Fight or Flight Response, Reduce Anxiety. Woodland Visualization Sleep Hypnotherapy
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Calm your Fight or Flight response with this woodland visualization, where a little woodland rabbit shows you how he discharges his survival energy.... This sleep hypnotherapy session gently talks you through how to discharge yours when you can't fight or flee away from perceived threats... Includes a progressive relaxation & sends you to sleep ***…
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This episode features an in-depth interview with Joe Harris. Joe has worked in the field of sexual health for almost 30 years, during which time he has been employed in both the community and statutory sectors. He worked for the Family Planning Association in Northern Ireland as a Project Officer before joining the Belfast Trust Sexual Health Train…
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STOP Stinking Thinking and Think Friendly Thoughts - Allow Yourself to Dream. Guided Sleep Visualization
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STOP Stinking Thinking and Think Friendly Thoughts - So often when we have nighttime anxiety, we allow our minds to jump onto a rollercoaster of negative thoughts, opinions and catastrophizing about the future, which stops us drifting off into a comfortable sleep. This guided visualization / meditation encourages you to change this... abandoning st…
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This episode features an in-depth interview with Yas Rodriguez. Yas was born and raised in Cuba, before moving to Northern Ireland in her 20's, and has now lived in Belfast for the past 25 years. She is a parent, and a teacher, and is involved in several local community campaigns. During the interview Yas reflects upon her childhood in Cuba; the me…
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Send Worry Off Into The Sunset & Feel Free To Sleep - Guided Sleep Visualization. British Female Voice
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This Guided Sleep Visualization will help you set worry adrift, off in a boat heading for the sunset, leaving you free to settle and sleep. British Female Voice ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Community and One-to-One CBT Counselling/Therapy & Shop. See you over th…
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Banish Sleep Anxiety & Change Your Mindset Through Gratitude, Sleep Hypnotherapy
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Banish your sleep anxiety tonight with this soothing sleep hypnotherapy which encourages you to think about gratitude, for all that you have and all that you are. When we are grateful for these things, we naturally begin to adopt a more positive mindset... Exercising gratitude every night - even in the smallest way, sets us on a good path away from…
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Whatever You Do, Don't Think About Sleep! Thought Entanglement, Guided Sleep Meditation. Female British Voice
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Whatever You Do, Don't Think About Sleep! This thought-entangling guided sleep meditation creates a beautifully confusing sleeping quandary... Listen to this audio every night for 2 weeks and then when required. ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Community and One-to-…
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Soothing Sounds: Womb Sounds with Mother Talking & Brown Sound & Heartbeats
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We decided to add an extra episode this week. As part of our 'Soothing Sounds' collection, we have made womb sounds, with mum talking & giggling, heartbeats, brown noise (for nurturing sleep) and tummy bubbles! Duration: 1.5hrs ***NEW PATREON*** We launched! https://www.patreon.com/SleepLikeaLog We're offering: 'Ask the Counsellor', Requests, Commu…
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Calm Your Mind and Body. Natural & Gentle Low Frequency Rumble to Fall Asleep Easily, Overcome Intrusive Thoughts & Overthinking at Bedtime. Brown Noise.
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Calm your mind and body with this natural and gentle low frequency rumble, known as brown noise, to help you fall asleep easily. Brown noise has been proven, in studies, to help you overcome intrusive thoughts & overthinking at bedtime, allowing you to drop off into a deep comfortable sleep sooner. From our 'Soothing Sounds' collection 2hrs duratio…
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This episode contains an in-depth interview with Ellen Taylor. Ellen is the Vice President and Community Relations Officer of the Secondary Students’ Union of Northern Ireland and chair of the Newry, Mourne and Down Youth Council. She is starring in season 2 of the CBBC sci-fi adventure series Silverpoint, and is currently studying her A-Levels. Du…
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This gentle guided sleep meditation with ASMR rain (white noise) will lull you into a deep sound sleep. If you struggle with anxiety, stress or over-thinking, the calm soothing white noise from the rain and soft music, will free your mind, so you can float off into a carefree slumber Listen to this audio every night for 2 weeks and then when requir…
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