Sleep Magic: Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation for Sleep Podcast

Welcome to the One Woman Book Club, where booklovers unite without the awkwardness of traditional bookclubs.

Join me, Grace, each episode's I delve into the heart of our monthly book club book, breaking it down chapter by chapter, dissecting the themes, characters and everything in between.

Whether you're into fiction, thrillers or romance, this podcast is your virtual book club sanctuary. No awkward small talk necessary.

Welcome to the One Woman Book Club, where book lovers unite without the awkwardness of traditional book clubs.

Join me, Grace, each episode I delve into the heart of her monthly book club book, breaking it down chapter by chapter, dissecting the themes, characters, and everything in between.

Whether you're into fiction, thrillers, or romance, this podcast is your virtual book club sanctuary. No awkward small talk necessary.

Find one woman book club where ever you listen to podcasts.

We also wrestle with inappropriate urges, taboos, and fantasies that aren't safe to share with everyone. Even just the fact that this ride we call life will end at some point is something we tend to avoid thinking about, so it ends up in that unconscious pile we call the shadow.

And that's all par for the course. We are human. We are not brands or content to be served up to the digital maelstrom. We are not our follower counts. We are human beings, complex, messy, and often contradictory.

I'm hauling my shadow around right now, and you have yours. And the most enlightened spiritual master still has theirs. No one is exempt. So can we forgive ourselves a little?

And of course we have to start with none other than Pride and Prejudice.

So join me as we embark on a journey through some of the most wonderful stories I know.

On the Growth Mindset podcast, I dive into the psychology of human potential and what the science says about self-improvement to give you that little extra.

According to experts, your potential is not sitting under a rock waiting for you to finally trip over it.

Destiny is merely a function of dedication and hard work.

So leave your inner chakra at the door, put the astrology chart down and stop waiting for something or someone to fix your life.

Take responsibility for yourself and give me a listen on the Growth Mindset Psychology of Self Improvement podcast.

Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie the Pooh lived in a forest all by himself

Now I do.

That's the endffalump.

Is that the end of the story?

They didn't catch it, did they?

On this show we talk a lot about breathing, but did you know that we take about 20,000 breaths a day? That's a lot of breathing. Americans also spend an average of 90% of our time indoors, and according to the EPA,

I've gotten a handful of requests for this story, so I'm happy to be reading from The Secret Garden tonight. It was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, who had a difficult childhood in England, moved with her family to Tennessee where things didn't work out financially, so she started writing and got her first story published at the age of 18.

By 20, she was earning enough for her family to move into a bigger house. Burnett was very industrious and successful with both her books and theatrical adaptations of them.

She was married and divorced twice, which was radical at the time, and The Secret Garden was published in 1911 when she was 62 years old.

So tonight, we celebrate Frances Hodgson Burnett with this adapted excerpt of her lovely work, The Secret Garden.

Golliver's Travels, but speaking of traveling we've had some very nice feedback lately from England, Australia and New Zealand.

Gulliver's Travels was written by Jonathan Swift and published in 1726.

Swift claimed he wrote Gulliver's Travels quote, to vex the world rather than divert it.

It is universally read from the Cabinet Council to the nursery.

Tonight I will be reading from chapter two of Gulliver's Travels.

Tonight, A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

I search regularly for books in the public domain and I just noticed that the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were made available last year.

I will be reading tonight from the first short story in his first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, published in 1892.

A Scandal in Bohemia Part One To Sherlock Holmes, she is always THE woman.

I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other.

She said, think of any woman who has loved the man you love as a sister. Like you've both loved the same person. That means you have a lot in common. And if you can embrace that commonality instead of feeling possessive or rejecting of yourself or her, that is letting love do what love does, which is connect and express. And love itself isn't jealous.

As love matures in a relationship, it's only really healthy if it allows that person to be completely who they are, including their past and including everyone they've loved or who has ever loved them. Love is a big, big picture that includes everyone ultimately.

And I can't remember if it was in this one or another one called A Woman's Worth, but she speaks specifically to this subject.

Tonight, The City of Beautiful Nonsense.

I'd never heard of this book, but I'm constantly trolling the internet for literature in the public domain, and having read from some of the most famous stuff, I've been getting into the less famous stuff.

The City of Beautiful Nonsense was written by British writer Ernest Temple Thurston and published in 1909 and was described as a sentimental novel.

It's a simple story in which an impoverished writer gives his last penny to a girl in a church so she can buy a candle.

Then they begin meeting in Kensington Gardens.

Andrew Weil in his really great book called The Natural Mind says that the drive to alter consciousness is like second only to the sex drive, especially in adolescence.

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published in May of 1925.

It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England.

It is one of Woolf's best known novels and Time Magazine called it one of the 100 best English language novels of all time.

We got a really good response after I read from another novel of Woolf's, To the Lighthouse.

It was the first work of fiction I read on this podcast and I think her writing suits itself to our mission here perfectly.

In Charles Darwin's great work, The Descent Of Man, he famously uses the phrase survival of the fittest only twice, while he mentions love over 90 times, because our connections to one another help us survive.

Tonight. Tales of a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Although he was criticized posthumously for being too much like the European romantic poets, I like his work because it's clear and grounded with simple natural imagery and a soothing rhythm.

It's called I Can't Sleep, hosted by Benjamin Boaster. In this podcast, Benjamin reads Wikipedia articles in his incredibly calming voice, designed to gently lull you into a peaceful slumber.

He covers a whole range of subjects you just might enjoy like comets, cicadas, and my personal favorite, Canada.

These topics are just engaging enough to distract your mind from the stresses of the day, but boring enough to send you to sleep, making it a great option for when you want to mix up your bedtime listening.

So if you enjoy what we do here at Sleep Magic and are looking for another soothing option to help you unwind, I highly recommend checking out I Can't Sleep.