Glenda Cedarleaf Author, Hypnotherapist, Meditations for Sleep, Relaxation, Healing, Manage Stress, Prepare for Surgery, Pain Management
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    • Who Are You Santa Lucia?
    • A Guide for Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • Meditative Bedtime Stories
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    • Relax
    • Sleep
    • Journey to Healing Places
    • Spiritual and Archetypal Support
    • Grieving and Letting Go
    • Reconnect with your Inner Child
    • Creativity Meditations
    • Health and Wellness
    • Affirmations
    • Imagine: Bedtime Stories for Adults
    • Intention Focus Empowerment
  • Explore
    • Journey Preparation
    • For Fellow Healers
    • What is Hypnotherapy
    • Trauma: A Case Study
    • Research Article Reprints on Guided Imagery
    • Articles and Videos on Guided Imagery
    • Benefits
    • Affirmations
  • Course
  • Bio
    • Customized Audio
    • What is SoulCollage® ?
  • Listen Clips A-I
    • Affirmations for Well-Being
    • Beginning Again
    • Bedtime Story Sleep Journey
    • Bedtime Story: New Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire and the SageWoman
    • Bedtime Story Claire & Sisters of Assisi
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Grandmother Love
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Spring Inspiration
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Magical Summer Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Autumn Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Winter Day
    • Bedtime Story East O' the Sun
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Winter Solstice Dream
    • Bedtime Story:Gift of the Magi
    • Bedtime Story Rumplestiltskin
    • Bedtime Story: Sleeping Beauty
    • Belly Breathing
    • Blissful Bathtub Meditation
    • Calming Mountain Mindfulness
    • Circle of Support
    • Connecting with Animal Companion
    • Connecting with Your Guardian Angel
    • Connecting with Your Wise Woman
    • Creating an Intention
    • Creativity
    • Divine Embrace
    • Divine Feminine Blessings
    • Ebb & Flow: Breathing with the Ocean
    • Envisioning
    • Fairiy Tales
    • Evening Bedtime Reading
    • Finding Your Healing Place
    • Freedom from Emotional Eating
    • Gratitude Meditation
    • Great Spirit Invocation
    • Grieving With The Rain
    • Guardian Meditation
    • Guided Imagery for Letting Go
    • Guided Imagery for Your "Third Act"
    • Healing Dream
    • Healing Surgery
    • Heartbeat MeditationListenClips
    • Holiday Reading: A Sailor's Gift
    • Holiday Stress Relief
    • Imagery to Meet your Magical Child
    • Inner Child Magical Journey
    • Inner Healer Alchemy
    • Inspired Movement: Becoming Unstuck
    • Intro to Relaxation
  • Listen Clips J-W
    • Journey Through the Chakras
    • LakeHouse Meditation
    • Letting Go Into the Lightness of Your Being
    • Mermaid Magic Meditation
    • Mid-Life Journey
    • Midsommar Meditation with Summer Sounds
    • Mindful Eating and Self-Care Affirmations
    • Mindful Morning Meditation
    • Morning Courage: Medittation/Affirmations
    • Morning Infusion: Come Rise Up Again
    • Ocean of Reiki Love
    • Ocean Sleep Journey
    • Ocean Mindfulness
    • Peaceful Transition
    • Portal of Transformation
    • Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Remember Who I Am
    • River of Relaxation
    • Progressive Relaxation
    • Sacred Flute: Med for Letting Go
    • Shower of Hope
    • Sleep into Dreamtime
    • Sleep into Dreamtime for Children
    • Sleep Lullaby at the Sea
    • SoulCollage Meditations
    • Stories for Your Inner Child
    • Transforming Challenges
    • Transforming Pain and Discomfort
    • Visualizing Recovery from Illness
    • Your Peaceful Interlude
    • Your Healing Journey
    • Wash Away
    • When you are hurting:Inner Child Alchemy
  • Blog
    • The long lost sister and a flutist
    • Solstice Siddhartha, Sacred Rest
    • A Guide to Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • From Shallow to Divine Feminine Presence
    • Ocean of Reiki Love
    • Hope
    • Where Is The Light ?
  • Home
  • My Books
    • Who Are You Santa Lucia?
    • A Guide for Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • Meditative Bedtime Stories
  • Content
    • Healing Imagery for Lyme
    • Testimonials
    • Relax
    • Sleep
    • Journey to Healing Places
    • Spiritual and Archetypal Support
    • Grieving and Letting Go
    • Reconnect with your Inner Child
    • Creativity Meditations
    • Health and Wellness
    • Affirmations
    • Imagine: Bedtime Stories for Adults
    • Intention Focus Empowerment
  • Explore
    • Journey Preparation
    • For Fellow Healers
    • What is Hypnotherapy
    • Trauma: A Case Study
    • Research Article Reprints on Guided Imagery
    • Articles and Videos on Guided Imagery
    • Benefits
    • Affirmations
  • Course
  • Bio
    • Customized Audio
    • What is SoulCollage® ?
  • Listen Clips A-I
    • Affirmations for Well-Being
    • Beginning Again
    • Bedtime Story Sleep Journey
    • Bedtime Story: New Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire and the SageWoman
    • Bedtime Story Claire & Sisters of Assisi
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Grandmother Love
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Spring Inspiration
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Magical Summer Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Autumn Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Winter Day
    • Bedtime Story East O' the Sun
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Winter Solstice Dream
    • Bedtime Story:Gift of the Magi
    • Bedtime Story Rumplestiltskin
    • Bedtime Story: Sleeping Beauty
    • Belly Breathing
    • Blissful Bathtub Meditation
    • Calming Mountain Mindfulness
    • Circle of Support
    • Connecting with Animal Companion
    • Connecting with Your Guardian Angel
    • Connecting with Your Wise Woman
    • Creating an Intention
    • Creativity
    • Divine Embrace
    • Divine Feminine Blessings
    • Ebb & Flow: Breathing with the Ocean
    • Envisioning
    • Fairiy Tales
    • Evening Bedtime Reading
    • Finding Your Healing Place
    • Freedom from Emotional Eating
    • Gratitude Meditation
    • Great Spirit Invocation
    • Grieving With The Rain
    • Guardian Meditation
    • Guided Imagery for Letting Go
    • Guided Imagery for Your "Third Act"
    • Healing Dream
    • Healing Surgery
    • Heartbeat MeditationListenClips
    • Holiday Reading: A Sailor's Gift
    • Holiday Stress Relief
    • Imagery to Meet your Magical Child
    • Inner Child Magical Journey
    • Inner Healer Alchemy
    • Inspired Movement: Becoming Unstuck
    • Intro to Relaxation
  • Listen Clips J-W
    • Journey Through the Chakras
    • LakeHouse Meditation
    • Letting Go Into the Lightness of Your Being
    • Mermaid Magic Meditation
    • Mid-Life Journey
    • Midsommar Meditation with Summer Sounds
    • Mindful Eating and Self-Care Affirmations
    • Mindful Morning Meditation
    • Morning Courage: Medittation/Affirmations
    • Morning Infusion: Come Rise Up Again
    • Ocean of Reiki Love
    • Ocean Sleep Journey
    • Ocean Mindfulness
    • Peaceful Transition
    • Portal of Transformation
    • Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Remember Who I Am
    • River of Relaxation
    • Progressive Relaxation
    • Sacred Flute: Med for Letting Go
    • Shower of Hope
    • Sleep into Dreamtime
    • Sleep into Dreamtime for Children
    • Sleep Lullaby at the Sea
    • SoulCollage Meditations
    • Stories for Your Inner Child
    • Transforming Challenges
    • Transforming Pain and Discomfort
    • Visualizing Recovery from Illness
    • Your Peaceful Interlude
    • Your Healing Journey
    • Wash Away
    • When you are hurting:Inner Child Alchemy
  • Blog
    • The long lost sister and a flutist
    • Solstice Siddhartha, Sacred Rest
    • A Guide to Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • From Shallow to Divine Feminine Presence
    • Ocean of Reiki Love
    • Hope
    • Where Is The Light ?
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 Hypnotherapist, Coach
Author, Creator of Meditations and Bedtime Stories
My life purpose is to help you use your unconscious mind to relax, heal and transform.  I want to  help you remember this resource, especially during those times of mystery when you feel like you have no clue what the next minute will bring.  

These guided meditations are written to give you strength, especially when you feel vulnerable and confused.  That is when being reminded of what you may have temporarily "forgotten" is especially important.


My love for guided meditation and hypnotherapy began in 1994 and it has inspired and supported me ever since.  All the creative influences in my childhood contributed to my eventual path of writing and recording guided meditations as well as my joy in facilitating SoulCollage® and women's groups.

I attended North Park University in Chicago and In 1980 I graduated with an MSW from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work.  I have lived in North Carolina for most of my adult life; except for 2004-2012 when I worked in an integrative healing practice in Minnesota.

​My own life challenges of dealing with loss and illness have given me great insight into how I support my clients on their path. Opening to creative soul exploration and creating a healing relationship with the inner child has helped me transform my life.  This is the path that inspires both my work with clients and the writing of my meditations.
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My clients continue to bless me and inspire me. They are mentors to me because of their courage, determination and willingness to be vulnerable as they explore the depths of the healing process.

I have now published three books:
A Guide for Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations: 70 Healing Scripts Included"
 Meditative Bedtime Stories
Who Are You Santa Lucia?


Over the past 35 years I have incorporated hypnotherapy, guided imagery, and somatic healing in my clinical work with clients.  One of the foundational tools for me has been creating imagery recordings to help my clients reinforce the tools they were learning during our sessions.  I grew to love writing and recording scripts. 

From this passion for creatively guiding my clients on a journey, I have now written and recorded over 140 guided meditations and bedtime stories, and created hundreds of customized audios.  My recordings are now available on several meditation streaming apps.

 
These are the settings in which I have worked:

Counselor at a residential treatment center for children in Cromwell CT
Director of a volunteer organization for older adults
Therapist at The Oncology Clinic of Raleigh Internal Medicine
Social Worker for Duke Hospice and Chapel Hill Home Health 
Hypnotherapist at Iatria Wellness Spa in Raleigh.
Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist at two Integrative Holistic Centers:
Bridges to Health in Durham NC and Partners in Healing of Minnetonka MN.
I began a private practice in 1996 and have continued this practice to the present.

My advanced training in guided imagery, somatic healing and hypnotherapy is through:
The Institute of Health Psychology, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, Wellness Institute's Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, and the Academy of Guided Imagery.

My approach also incorporates the use of mindfulness practices in creating greater clarity and the ability to experience the gift of truly living in the present.

Some of my teachers have included:
Belleruth Naparstek ACSW, Emmett Miller MD, James Spira PhD., Steve Gilligan PhD, Peter Levine PhD, Bessel van der Kolk, MD. I have also trained as a life coach with Kathleen Brehony PhD through the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine. 

I am a clinical member of:
The Wellness Institute's Heart Centered Hypnotherapy and Imagery International

In addition, I am a trained SoulCollage® facilitator.

My Healing Surgery CD is sold at the Mayo Clinic Medical Store.



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​I was born in Spokane Washington and grew up in Chicago; the daughter of a minister and youngest of four sisters.  I loved music, poetry, images and photography. I belonged to a choric choir and there connected with the power of the spoken word as art. I listened to and recorded music on my dad's old reel to reel tape player and savored spending time with him as he processed photos in his dark room. I also loved cutting out magazine images and quotes and creating little books.

My mother and sisters served as very powerful mentors around creativity and feminine power.

I love being a mother, wife and grandmother. I love the ocean and the rivers, riding my bike, swimming, listening to music, SoulCollage®, writing and recording guided meditations. I love living in North Carolina and the beautiful nature that surrounds me. In my "Third Act" of life, I hope to continue bringing the light of awareness into my own life and the life of others.
Here I am at the family cabin wrapped in a 62 year old handmade quilt that comforted our family throughout the years.

This quilt not only symbolizes comfort, warmth and nurturing; but also the patchwork of experiences that we all bring to the beauty and uniqueness of our lives. 

I like to use this phrase in some of my meditation scripts: "feeling comforted like a cozy warm blanket on a cool day".

So I offer this image to remind you of what makes you unique and what helps you reconnect with nurturing warmth.

​Warm Blessings...Namaste!
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