Welcome to Sleep Meditation for Women, Three Hours.

I'm Katie Kremitzos. I'm the creator of the Women's Meditation Network and your guide here.

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Ad Free, become a premium member by following the link in the show notes. Close your eyes and invite yourself to settle.

Breathe settle.

Breathe into calm and let the soft, soothing energy of relaxation flow through your body. Our former selves, our ghosts to us, still present, but not really.

Though it may seem like their past their use,

in truth, their memory is a blessing. With your eyes closed, see who's there.

Which versions of you still linger?

Ask yourself where you all stand.

If there's anything you still wonder.

Though we want to believe we shed those cells, when new understanding settles in, we actually move

if we're willing to embrace the messy past hiding within us.

It's not that we have to wallow there.

Or we live what we'd rather not.

But whatever they are, we are as well.

And their scars have stories. But whatever they are, we are as well.

And their scars have stories to tell.

If we don't listen when they speak, our present life just gets harder. For they know better than anyone else what it takes to make us smarter.

Picture a younger version of you.

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