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 write and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens with audio engineering

by Bob Witterstein.

If you'd like to hear our stories without any ads, as well as listen to bonus episodes,

you can subscribe to our premium feeds over at nothingmuchhappens.com.

We're just about to release a new bonus story there, and it's such a sweet one.

It's called Care Package, and it would be a great story to listen to when you need to

be reminded about how it feels to be thought of lovingly and gifted something to brighten

your day.

Again, it's at nothingmuchhappens.com.

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

When your mind wanders and then races at night, keeping you up, making you feel anxious

and exhausted, you need a way to guide it, to steer it into calm waters.

That's what these stories are.

They are quiet, simple places to rest your mind.

Just by following along with the sound of my voice, you'll begin to train your brain

for better sleep.

I'll read the story twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

If you wake in the middle of the night, think back to any part of the story you can remember.

Lean into whatever details you can recall, and you'll drop right back off.

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