Welcome to Bedtime Stories for grown-ups, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Katherine Nicolai.

I read and write all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

Audioengineering is by Bob Witterschheim.

This time last year, I was writing story after story to add to my new book, Nothing Much

Happens, Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep.

I was testing recipes and creating caravage walls and emailing with the illustrator.

And now, a year later, my beautiful book is available all over the world.

I can't wait for you to see it.

To read one of the 16 new stories that are only in the book.

To learn more or to buy an autographed copy, go to Nothing Much Happens.com.

Let me say a little about how to use this podcast.

Your brain needs a job to do.

And without one, it will wander off and get into trouble.

But the job is easy and such a pleasure.

I'll tell you a story.

I'll tell it twice and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

Your job is just to listen and pull the details of it around you like a blanket.

If you wake in the middle of the night, you could listen again or just walk yourself

back through any part of it that you can remember.

This trains the brain over time to shift out of its wandering, default mode that can

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