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​Welcome 
to this collection of guided imagery meditations and gentle bedtime stories created to support your journey toward healing, peace, and inner wisdom.

Whether you are moving through stress, illness, grief, loss, or sleepless nights, these recordings are here to offer comfort.


Here you will also find inspiration for a deeper connection with your creativity, your inner child,  your spirituality and healing.

When the path ahead feels uncertain, may they remind you that you are never truly alone. Within you lives a wellspring of courage, resilience, and healing, waiting to be remembered.

May these journeys help you find your way home to your inner peace and creativity.

Thank you for being here. It is an honor to walk beside you in this way. ~Glenda
Glenda Cedarleaf MSW has created over 150 soothing meditations and bedtime stories featured on several meditation apps. With almost 13 million listens on Insight Timer, her passion is to bring the power of imagery to help her clients and listeners bring more peace and perspective into their lives with these meditative journeys.

She is a Heart-Centered® Hypnotherapist, SoulCollage® Facilitator, ​author and guided meditation recording artist with over 35 years in the field of healing arts. She incorporates mindfulness meditation, hypnotherapy, guided imagery, and somatic healing in her work with clients as well as in the creation of her audios and videos for relaxation, inspiration and healing.

After receiving her Masters in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980,  Glenda first specialized in geriatrics, home health, oncology and hospice. She then established her holistic therapy practice in two integrative healing centers: first in Durham, North Carolina and then in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
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She is the author of a book and a course titled " A Guide to Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations: 70 Healing Scripts Included" and was awarded Imagery Person of the Year for 2019 by Imagery International.

Glenda continues to maintain her private practice and follow her creative pursuits from her home in New Bern, North Carolina where she lives with her dear husband and delightful dog, Lily.
Glenda's audios and videos are featured on:
Bandcamp, Breethe, Hay House, Insight Timer, KindVR, Slumber, YouTube
"Glenda Cedarleaf MSW artfully combines poetic language, skillful guided imagery technique, rich, multisensory imagery, and her signature soothing voice with a deep understanding of our complex relationship with our bodies."
~Belleruth Naparstek Guided Imagery Pioneer and founder of Health Journeys
​author of "Staying Well with Guided Imagery"
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 Customized Imagery Audio
Together, we will create a personalized meditative experience that serves as a foundation for daily inspiration, relaxation, and renewed balance.

 This package includes a one-hour phone consultation to explore your goals, clarify your focus, and discuss your responses to the questionnaire I use to create your personalized audio script (the questions can be downloaded here: Customized Audio).

Your customized audio will incorporate:
*your unique healing place,
*your choice of music,
* personalized affirmations,
and other elements designed specifically for you.

​ Listening to your personalized recording is a powerful way to begin or end your day, helping you feel inspired, grounded, and supported as you relax into a deeper sense of comfort, peace, and well-being.
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I began creating customized audios over 30 years ago and have since recorded thousands, bringing decades of experience and care to every personalized recording.
More information here.

​Are you dealing with pain, preparing for surgery, having sleep issues, ​living with illness or loss?
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This Mind Body Healing Youtube playlist  is created to help
​soothe your nervous system & reconnect with hope and healing.
 Healing Playlists on Insight Timer
Divine Feminine Meditations
Meditations to Calm Anxiety
Mindful Soothing Claire Bedtime Stories
Soothing Classic Sleep Stories
Meditations for Letting Go, Grief, Dying Process
Morning Meditations
Health and Healing Meditations
Guided Visualizations to Healing Places
Inner Child and Creativity Meditations
Soothing Sleep Meditations for Insomnia
Meditations for Spiritual Support
Healing Imagery for Lyme Disease
Meditation for Osteoporosis
Course
 Books 
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Scripts, Information and Inspiration for you
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​Mindful Soothing
"Claire" Tales 
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​For children and our inner children
A Few Client Reflections...

"Glenda's skill and compassion, her professionalism and genuine warmth as heart centered hypnotherapist, has made a significant difference in my life, helping to rearrange stories that have tugged and weighed at my child's heart for too long.

Her recordings that are unique to your own journey have also been a great compass moving me from dark to light, from fear to courage and confusion to clarity. She is a remarkable, competent and gentle soul."
"Though I have been skeptical of hypnosis in the past, Glendas way of being, three decades of experience, and her clear belief in the practice make it impossible to not have faith that something is working. 
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From our time together, I have become aware of ways  I have allowed intergenerational traumas and my own obsolete narratives to hinder my growth.

I see that the methods of protection I employ to avoid pain are no longer functioning for me. I have realized my quality as a highly sensitive person is not a curse; it is a powerful gift that enables me to connect deeply to my inner and outer life.

I now know how to call on my wise woman within to provide comfort or safety when my inner child feels afraid or to give attention to the moody teenager that feels invisible. These revelations have helped me to cultivate better relationships with others and myself."
“My story with Glenda begins in the fall of 2006; I was desperately in need of hope, nurturing, comfort and healing.  I know in my heart, that my sessions with her saved my life. 

Fast forward 7 years later… although I’m in a much healthier place I am still, at moments, paralyzed with my deep abandonment issues-- The guided imageries on Haven of Relaxation have, quite literally, been a safe haven for me these past few painful months.

When I start to ruminate and am unable to shut off my mind, I listen to Glenda’s audios over and over; Peaceful Interlude and Intro to Relaxation ‘Song to the World’ begin and end my days—they provide me with much peace and gratitude. I feel like Glenda is always with me—as long as I play her audios and imageries, I am never alone and I love being able to focus on her voice; the comfort I receive from her soothing voice brings me to a happy place of light and love. 

 Even if you don’t have the opportunity to meet Glenda, in person, I believe that you will find the same level of comfort from her audios and imageries that I experience. I am a true testimonial of  Glenda’s powerful healing talent. I am happy to share ‘my story’ with anyone—Glenda is a blessing—I hope you can be touched by her as I am/have been. ” 

     Please contact me below for:
     Customized audios, Information about my books, and  licensing options. 
    My client practice is full so I am not able to see new clients. Thanks for your understanding!

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Divine Feminine Meditations
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Meditations for Letting Go, Grief, Dying Process
Morning Meditations
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Guided Visualizations to Healing Places
Inner Child and Creativity Meditations
Soothing Sleep Meditations for Insomnia
Meditations for Spiritual Support
Healing Imagery for Lyme Disease
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Guided Imagery Meditations
                    Book and Course:
A Guide for Writing & Recording Guided Imagery Meditations: 70 Healing Scripts Included
Creating a Daily Healing Practice with Guided Meditation
​How Guided Imagery Supports Habit Change
Guided Imagery for Surgery Preparation
Research on Guided Imagery
The Therapeutic Benefit of  Bedtime Stories
For Fellow Healers
What is Hypnotherapy?
Trauma: A Case Study
​What is SoulCollage?
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