Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone, in which nothing much happens. You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

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

Audio engineering is by Bob Withersheme.

We give to a different charity each week and this week we are giving to

Marine Mammal Center. Marine Mammal Center advances global ocean conservation through rescue and rehabilitation, research and education.

Learn more about them in our show notes.

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You are helping to make this show possible.

So thank you to Sophia and John,

to Natasha and Aaron.

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super long episodes to keep you company all night.

Find the link to that, as well as to our new wine down box,

full of sleepy time products.

There's some top-tier self-care in there, all in our show notes.

Now, here's how this works.

A little quirk of our brains is that at bedtime and particularly around two or three in the

morning, our amygdala is wide awake and our prefrontal cortex is checked out.

So problems can feel big and the part in charge of solving them is missing in action.

And let me say first of all, everything is going to be okay.

That middle of the night angst is a liar.

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