Rest: Sleepy Bedtime Stories
Rest is a bedtime story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular sleep narrator Jessika Gössl as she reads bedtime stories that will gently guide you into a deep, restful sleep. Each episode is crafted to ease you into relaxation, making bedtime a tranquil and comforting experience. If you're searching for the perfect bedtime story to quiet your mind, you've come to the right place.
Episodes
March 25, 2025 • 27 mins
Escape into the open road with this soothing sleep story that takes you on an unhurried journey through breathtaking fjords, towering mountains, and quiet winding roads - where the destination doesn’t matter, only the beauty of the present moment.🌙
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your t...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your t...
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March 18, 2025 • 56 mins
Tonight, you’re invited to a sleepy interview with Beatrix Potter at her picturesque farm in the Lake District. Settle in for a dreamy conversation - where history and fiction meet - with the woman who brought Peter Rabbit to life. 🌙
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or fin...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or fin...
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March 17, 2025 • 23 mins
Tonight, Aunty Lizzie, once a master lace-maker, is drawn out of retirement to craft a wedding veil for her beloved great-niece, Rose. 🌙
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular British sleep narrator Jessika Gössl, as she r...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular British sleep narrator Jessika Gössl, as she r...
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March 17, 2025 • 31 mins
Tonight, we’re taking a peaceful walk through Australia’s vast savanna with Yara and her Great Grandmother. 🌙
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular British sleep narrator Jessika Gössl, as she reads bedtime stories that w...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular British sleep narrator Jessika Gössl, as she reads bedtime stories that w...
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March 17, 2025 • 54 mins
Tonight's tale is a classic, one that begins with a golden ball, a deep well, and a rather peculiar frog with a very hidden secret. 🌙
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular British sleep narrator Jessika Gössl, as she read...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular British sleep narrator Jessika Gössl, as she read...
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March 17, 2025 • 46 mins
Tonight we return to the Ember Isles, and join Princess Mila as she embarks on a special journey guided by a mysterious map that promises to reveal something long thought to exist only in legends.
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, jo...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, jo...
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March 17, 2025 • 38 mins
Tonight, we'll journey to the Ember Isles, and follow Princess Mila, a clever and curious young royal, as she discovers a long-lost secret buried deep within her kingdom’s history. 🌙
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular ...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular ...
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March 17, 2025 • 52 mins
Tonight, we return to the Ember Isles, and meet Violet, a devoted apprentice in the Royal Gardens. When she discovers a mysterious, withering plant, her determination to revive it leads her to uncover something quite extraordinary. 🌙
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or fin...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or fin...
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March 11, 2025 • 54 mins
Tonight's tale is a classic, one that begins with a golden ball, a deep well, and a rather peculiar frog with a very hidden secret. 🌙
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular British sleep narrator Jessika Gössl, as she read...
Rest is a Bedtime Story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration and gentle music. Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular British sleep narrator Jessika Gössl, as she read...
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March 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Margery Williams ✍️
Includes mentions of: Rabbits, Child, Woods, Toys, Playtime, Love ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we return to our childhood days - where toys are not just things, but cherished companions… Where dreams and reality blur softly at the edges… and where a child's love has the power to make even the smallest things Real.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
W...
Writer: Margery Williams ✍️
Includes mentions of: Rabbits, Child, Woods, Toys, Playtime, Love ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we return to our childhood days - where toys are not just things, but cherished companions… Where dreams and reality blur softly at the edges… and where a child's love has the power to make even the smallest things Real.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
W...
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February 25, 2025 • 52 mins
Narrator: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Hollis Barkhaus ✍️
Includes mentions of: Gardens, Flowers, Bodies of water, Festival, Fairytale Creatures, Castle, Royalty ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we return to the Ember Isles, and meet Violet, a devoted apprentice in the Royal Gardens. When she discovers a mysterious, withering plant, her determination to revive it leads her to uncover something quite extraordinary.
New episodes are re...
Writer: Hollis Barkhaus ✍️
Includes mentions of: Gardens, Flowers, Bodies of water, Festival, Fairytale Creatures, Castle, Royalty ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we return to the Ember Isles, and meet Violet, a devoted apprentice in the Royal Gardens. When she discovers a mysterious, withering plant, her determination to revive it leads her to uncover something quite extraordinary.
New episodes are re...
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February 18, 2025 • 50 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Rudyard Kipling ✍️
Includes mentions of: Whale, Fish, Ocean, Man ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. You've heard the saying, "Curiosity killed the cat," but long before that, people might have said, "Curiosity caught the whale." Tonight, we journey far back in time, into a Rudyard Kipling tale; when the world was still being shaped and its creatures had lessons to learn. ‘How the Whale Got His Throat’ is a wh...
Writer: Rudyard Kipling ✍️
Includes mentions of: Whale, Fish, Ocean, Man ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. You've heard the saying, "Curiosity killed the cat," but long before that, people might have said, "Curiosity caught the whale." Tonight, we journey far back in time, into a Rudyard Kipling tale; when the world was still being shaped and its creatures had lessons to learn. ‘How the Whale Got His Throat’ is a wh...
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February 11, 2025 • 63 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: The Brothers Grimm ✍️
Includes mentions of: Princesses, King, Soldier, Castle, Princes, Body of water, Dancing, Death ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, you’ll step into the pages of another Brothers Grimm fairytale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. As the moonlight shimmers on the water, an old soldier sets out to uncover a royal secret; why do the king’s twelve daughters wake up each morning with wor...
Writer: The Brothers Grimm ✍️
Includes mentions of: Princesses, King, Soldier, Castle, Princes, Body of water, Dancing, Death ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, you’ll step into the pages of another Brothers Grimm fairytale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. As the moonlight shimmers on the water, an old soldier sets out to uncover a royal secret; why do the king’s twelve daughters wake up each morning with wor...
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January 28, 2025 • 47 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Jessika Gössl ✍️
Includes mentions of: Pytheas, Massalia, History, Greece, Ocean, Sailing, Astronomy ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, you’ll set sail with Pytheas of Massalia, a fearless explorer, as he journeys across the ancient seas, discovering distant lands and the mysteries of the ocean under a starlit sky.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
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Writer: Jessika Gössl ✍️
Includes mentions of: Pytheas, Massalia, History, Greece, Ocean, Sailing, Astronomy ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, you’ll set sail with Pytheas of Massalia, a fearless explorer, as he journeys across the ancient seas, discovering distant lands and the mysteries of the ocean under a starlit sky.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch, listen and comment ...
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January 21, 2025 • 86 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: The Brothers Grimm✍️
Includes mentions of: Talking Fish, Ocean, Storms, Wishes, Fisherman ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight you’ll meet a humble fisherman, a magical talking fish, and witness how a simple wish can stir the tides of fate.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch, listen and comment on this episode on the Rest YouTube channel!
If you enjoy the show, please subsc...
Writer: The Brothers Grimm✍️
Includes mentions of: Talking Fish, Ocean, Storms, Wishes, Fisherman ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight you’ll meet a humble fisherman, a magical talking fish, and witness how a simple wish can stir the tides of fate.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch, listen and comment on this episode on the Rest YouTube channel!
If you enjoy the show, please subsc...
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January 14, 2025 • 61 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Leo Tolstoy ✍️
Includes mentions of: King, Hermit, Wise Men, Humility, Forgiveness ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we join a king on his quest to find meaning in the present moment.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch, listen and comment on this episode on the Rest YouTube channel!
If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and leave a comment in the morning when you wake...
Writer: Leo Tolstoy ✍️
Includes mentions of: King, Hermit, Wise Men, Humility, Forgiveness ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we join a king on his quest to find meaning in the present moment.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch, listen and comment on this episode on the Rest YouTube channel!
If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and leave a comment in the morning when you wake...
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January 7, 2025 • 65 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Oscar Wilde ✍️
Includes mentions of: Giants, Children, Winter, Spring, Autumn, Hail, Garden, Playtime, Christian theme ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Relax into Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant,” a soothing bedtime narration designed to guide you into peaceful sleep. This gentle storytelling by Jessika Gössl blends calming tones with a classic story perfect for sleep, offering tired adults a well-deserved...
Writer: Oscar Wilde ✍️
Includes mentions of: Giants, Children, Winter, Spring, Autumn, Hail, Garden, Playtime, Christian theme ⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Relax into Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant,” a soothing bedtime narration designed to guide you into peaceful sleep. This gentle storytelling by Jessika Gössl blends calming tones with a classic story perfect for sleep, offering tired adults a well-deserved...
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December 31, 2024 • 74 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Kate Chopin ✍️
Includes mentions of: Theatre, Shopping, Restaurant, Food, Luxury⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we’ll step into the world of Kate Chopin’s story, A Pair of Silk Stockings. First published in 1897, this classic follows a single day in the life of Mrs. Sommers, a woman, who rather unexpectedly, finds fifteen dollars.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch,...
Writer: Kate Chopin ✍️
Includes mentions of: Theatre, Shopping, Restaurant, Food, Luxury⭐
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we’ll step into the world of Kate Chopin’s story, A Pair of Silk Stockings. First published in 1897, this classic follows a single day in the life of Mrs. Sommers, a woman, who rather unexpectedly, finds fifteen dollars.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch,...
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December 17, 2024 • 34 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Hollis Barkhaus ✍️
Includes mentions of: Dogs, Snow, Park, Cold, Sledding, Tacoma ❄️
Welcome back my friend. Tonight, we travel to the snowy city of Tacoma, where two dogs spend a winter day outdoors with their parents, playing in the snow at one of their favorite parks.
Watch, listen and comment on this episode on the Rest YouTube channel!
Don’t forget to hit subscribe before you fall asleep.💤
New episod...
Writer: Hollis Barkhaus ✍️
Includes mentions of: Dogs, Snow, Park, Cold, Sledding, Tacoma ❄️
Welcome back my friend. Tonight, we travel to the snowy city of Tacoma, where two dogs spend a winter day outdoors with their parents, playing in the snow at one of their favorite parks.
Watch, listen and comment on this episode on the Rest YouTube channel!
Don’t forget to hit subscribe before you fall asleep.💤
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December 10, 2024 • 60 mins
Host: Jessika Gössl 🌙
Writer: Johanna Spyri ✍️
Includes mentions of: Swiss Alps, Grandfather, Mountain, Goats, Familial Relationships ⛰️
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we return to the story of Heidi, but journey back to the beginning of her tale, when she first meets her grandfather after a very long climb up the mountain path.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch, listen and comment on this epis...
Writer: Johanna Spyri ✍️
Includes mentions of: Swiss Alps, Grandfather, Mountain, Goats, Familial Relationships ⛰️
Welcome back, my friend. Tonight, we return to the story of Heidi, but journey back to the beginning of her tale, when she first meets her grandfather after a very long climb up the mountain path.
New episodes are released weekly! Every Tuesday at 6PM (GMT).
Watch, listen and comment on this epis...
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