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H E L. P dot com forward slash Slayer. Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast.

We're celebrating 8 million downloads

and our role as a leading resource for anxiety relief.

So exciting.

Welcome back in Nanga.

Hey Shen, I'm still in celebratory mode.

I think I'm going to just be celebrating for a while.

This week for Sleep Awareness Week,

we're sharing a conversation about the power of guided relaxations for a good night's

sleep. And we'll walk through several different options and help you kind of discern what the best choice might be for you.

I'm glad we're doing this and I didn't even realize that there was a sleep

awareness week so here we are. Yeah, I didn't know either.

Why guided meditation? Why does that help us sleep?

Guided meditation I think is a fantastic resource for sleep.

It's such a gentle, natural way to get to sleep and what I particularly love about it

is the more we use it, the better it works for us, the mind gets used to it and the mind settles into it more quickly.

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