What if I told you that most of the modern day self-help advice you've been hearing could actually make you worse?

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Hi, I'm Amy Morin, psychotherapist, mental strength trainer, and international best-selling author.

In each episode, we cover research-back strategies, like how to stop relying on willpower

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you can do from your couch. I also speak to

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the root cause. With over 200 episodes in our catalog, this podcast is for you if you're ready

to crush self-doubt, conquer challenges, and become stronger than ever

with therapist-approved strategies that can change your life.

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Hey, my name's Otis Gray, and you're listening to Sleepy.

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep, and this is a midweek bedtime story for you.

Okay. And this is a midweek bedtime story for you. So tonight, I have a really great little short story for you that is holiday themed by one of our favorite authors here, Washington Irving, the brand new short story

that I haven't read on the show before.

So I hope you like you.

And before we get to the bedtime reading, I just want to thank all of our patrons on patreon.com.

If you are a supporter of the show, thank you so, so much.

I really, really appreciate it.

So thank you.

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