Grown-Up Bedtime Stories

Grown-Up Bedtime Stories

Grown-Up Bedtime Stories was created because the listeners of my CALM+COZY Podcast kept telling me to record bedtime stories for them, and the number one comment I received was that my voice was calming enough to relax them before bed. I am not a professional voiceover artist and I've never done this before, so don't expect perfection! The point of a bedtime story is to help you unwind, not necessarily to put you to sleep, but I end each episode with music that fades out in case you DO fall asleep. Episodes are posted on an every-other-week schedule, on Mondays, and vary in length so you can choose how long an episode you need. Reviewers have said that I read too fast, and also too slow, that I'm too monotone but with not enough inflection, which is confusing, so I'll keep doing what I'm doing and if you like it I hope you'll stay. If you like this you might like my other podcast, CALM+COZY, which focuses on insomnia, rest, and self-care topics. I can also be fou

Episodes

March 18, 2019 25 mins
Tonight I read you chapter 11 of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, where we learn that the "wonderful wizard" is actually a bit of a d*ck! Nevertheless, Dorothy and her friends are always up for a challenge. Goodnight, friends. Sweet dreams!
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Chapters 9 and 10 are here, so get ready for some characters they didn't show us in the movie.
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Let's continue with our story of Dorothy, Toto, and their friends as they journey to Oz. This is a 22-minute episode for those of you who need more than one chapter to fall asleep. Goodnight!
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January 19, 2019 10 mins
Listen to a short story by Oscar Wilde while you drift sweetly into dreamland.
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I'm back with more episodes and bedtime stories! This episode is chapter 6 of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz with no background music. Enjoy, and thank you for your patience.
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September 6, 2018 12 mins
I'm back with the next chapter of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, and in this episode we meet the Tin Man!
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For not having any brains, the scarecrow sure knows a thing or two about life! Tonight let's continue with our story.
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I wanted to give you some peaceful piano music to fall asleep to. I paid to use this royalty-free track created by Turpak (https://audiojungle.net/user/turpak).
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I was obsessed with haiku poetry in high school. I also wrote a lot of short stories. I knew I had a box in the bottom of my closet with everything I had written in the first 20 years of my life, and when I went digging, I found it! I'm taking a break from The Wizard Of Oz to read you some of the poems and verses I wrote in 1998, my last year of high school. From the sounds of it, it was also a reflective and emotional year, but I ...
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Dorothy starts her long journey to The City Of Emeralds, and guess who she meets!? A scarecrow! I won't tell you anything else because it would ruin the surprise! Enjoy, and goodnight!
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We're on to chapter 2 this week, as Dorothy lands in the Land of the Munchkins and meets the good witch!
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Tonight we start the reading of Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. Dorothy gets caught in a cyclone in chapter 1, and I don't sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for you... unfortunately.
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June 10, 2018 4 mins
Need a short bedtime story tonight? Let me read you 3 Robert Frost poems: Bond and Free, The Road Not Taken, and The Need of Being Versed in Country Things. If you can get past my basic editing skills and limited poetry reading talents, you'll relax in no time!
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June 10, 2018 20 mins
Fall asleep to the story of Mabel, who wears a yellow dress to a party, and tortures herself over it for the rest of the night. It's not an exciting story, but Virginia Woolf is lovely, and this is the perfect story to relax you, and remind you that very few people actually look good in yellow. Listen before bed, or in bed.
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June 10, 2018 6 mins
This is weird for me, but the most common comments I receive on my CALM+COZY Insomnia Podcast are, "Your voice is so calming," "You should record your own meditations" and "I could fall asleep to the sound of your voice." So, I'm doing this for you, my wonderful sleepy tribe! Grown-Up Bedtime Stories is a collection of poetry, short stories, and whatever else we can conjure up to help you relax in the evening. Listen at night, duri...
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