Holiday Window at the Bookshop

Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep

Wellness Loud

Fiction, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Our story tonight is called Holiday Window at the Bookshop, and it’s a story about clearing out the pumpkins and setting up the twinkle lights on a rainy December afternoon. It’s also about old buildings with tall ceilings and heavy front doors, a dog asleep in a chair, paper stars and puddles among the cobblestones, and the promise of a new book to whisk you away somewhere magical. Subscribe to our ⁠⁠Premium channel.⁠⁠ The first month is on us. 💙 We give to a different charity each week, and this week, we are giving to Empower. They provide children, teens, and young adults relief from grief and guide them through life following the loss of a parent. Preorder your own NMH weighted pillow now! Listen to our new show, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, on your favorite podcast app. nothingmuchhappens.com/stories-from-the-village Join us tomorrow morning for a meditation at nothingmuchhappens.com/first-this. Save over $100 on the Nothing Much Happens Wind-Down Box, featuring Kathryn’s favorite relaxation essentials from top wellness brands, including calming supplements, a lavender candle, sleep aids, and more for the perfect bedtime ritual. Purchase Our Book: https://bit.ly/Nothing-Much-Happens See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bedtime Stories for Everyone, in which nothing much happens.
0:11.0	You feel good, and then you fall asleep.
0:16.2	I'm Catherine Nikolai.
0:19.1	I create everything you hear on nothing much happens.
0:24.3	Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim.
0:28.5	We give to a different charity each week, and this week we are giving to empower.
0:35.9	They provide children, teens, and young adults relief from grief,
0:41.3	and guide them through life following the loss of a parent. Learn more in our show notes.
0:48.5	I spend a lot of time thinking about how to help you, not just sleep, but wind down and relax. And I want you to have
1:02.0	as many tools in your toolbox as you need for that. One that I use a lot, and I'm actually using right now as I record this is a weighted pillow.
1:18.7	I'm holding it on my lap as I tell your bedtime stories.
1:24.3	For me, it's easier to use than a weighted blanket.
1:29.2	I can take it with me when I go to yoga,
1:33.3	lay it on my chest during shavasana,
1:37.1	or at home I might hug it while I'm watching a movie.
1:41.9	The weight grounds and relaxes me. I just want to give you ways to feel good.
1:50.7	So if you want to learn more about this, you can go to nothing much happens.com.
1:57.6	We've also got a link in our notes. Now, there is a sweet spot in which your brain will just naturally fall asleep.
2:11.2	And bedtime stories can take us there.
2:15.4	This isn't new information. It works by giving your thoughts a rhythm to follow.
2:24.7	And all you need to do is listen. I'll tell the story twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.
2:36.5	If you wake later in the night, don't hesitate to turn an episode back on, or let them play
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