Romeo and Juliet
Drift Off - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Joanne D'Amico
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
For Valentine's day, tonight’s storytelling is the tragic love story of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This retelling by Edith Nesbit is a love story about two young teenagers who fall in love with each other the first time they meet. However, the many years of conflict between their families requires them to remain enemies. Unfortunately their love does not resolve the feud between the families...and ultimately causes the young lovers to escape the world that has kept them apart.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Drift Off, bedtime stories to help you unwind, relax, and drift off. |
| 0:23.4 | Thank you for joining me, I'm your host Joanne and it's a pleasure helping you get |
| 0:28.7 | restful sleep. I created this podcast because I wanted to provide a quiet space for comfort |
| 0:36.4 | for my listeners. Life can get really busy and I want this podcast to be a soft place |
| 0:43.0 | to land at the end of the day where you feel safe and cozy as I read you a bedtime story |
| 0:49.8 | to help you unwind and relax as you ease into a restful night sleep. So if you're enjoying |
| 0:56.0 | the podcast and want to support the show so that we can continue to bring you even more |
| 1:01.2 | sleepy bedtime stories, we've created a premium membership where you can enjoy relaxing, |
| 1:07.8 | intro and ad-free listening to monthly bonus episodes as well as access to a monthly guided |
| 1:15.0 | sleep relaxation or sleep hypnosis that you can use at bedtime to help you sleep. Go sign up |
| 1:22.0 | at driftoff.supercast.com or see the link in the show notes that's driftoff.supercast.com. |
| 1:34.2 | Tonight's storytelling is the classic love story of Romeo and Juliet. This is a retelling by Edith |
| 1:41.4 | Nesbitt. This story is about two young teenagers who fall in love with each other the first time |
| 1:49.4 | they meet. However, the many years of conflict between their families requires them to remain |
| 1:56.4 | enemies. Unfortunately, their love does not resolve the feud between the families and ultimately |
| 2:05.0 | causes the young lovers to escape the world that has kept them apart. |
| 2:09.4 | So I invite you now to ease into a comfortable position so you can begin to unwind and relax. |
| 2:24.1 | Notice the sensations of the softness of your pillow, your sheets and blankets, |
| 2:31.2 | and embrace this feeling of coziness as your body and mind come to rest now. |
| 2:43.1 | Allow this feeling of comfort to envelop you, to surround you as you begin the process of letting go. |
| 2:54.9 | So you can easily and effortlessly drift off. |
| 3:03.1 | And so, as always, my friend, take a full comfortable breath and as you exhale, relax and let go. |
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