Glenda Cedarleaf Author, Hypnotherapist, Meditations for Sleep, Relaxation, Healing, Manage Stress, Prepare for Surgery, Pain Management
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    • Guided Imagery for Your "Third Act"
    • Healing Dream
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    • Holiday Reading: A Sailor's Gift
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    • Inner Child Magical Journey
    • Inner Healer Alchemy
    • Inspired Movement: Becoming Unstuck
    • Intro to Relaxation
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    • Journey Through the Chakras
    • LakeHouse Meditation
    • Letting Go Into the Lightness of Your Being
    • Mermaid Magic Meditation
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    • Midsommar Meditation with Summer Sounds
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    • Ocean of Reiki Love
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    • Progressive Relaxation
    • Sacred Flute: Med for Letting Go
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    • SoulCollage Meditations
    • Stories for Your Inner Child
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    • Visualizing Recovery from Illness
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    • Wash Away
    • When you are hurting:Inner Child Alchemy
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    • A Guide to Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • From Shallow to Divine Feminine Presence
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    • 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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Bedtime Story Audio Tracks
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​This Sleep Meditation is a soothing whimsical journey with "Claire"  into a full body relaxation and then into an exploration of a lovely healing place: “The Enchanted Castle” and “The Secret Garden”.  The beautifully detailed description of these two places is adapted from two classic children’s works by Edith Nesbit and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

1. Bedtime Journey Sleep Story 

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​Join "Claire" in this bedtime story for adults as she moves through an awakened experience that includes fond travel memories, connecting with images that calm and inspire and settling into a soothing journey of returning back to hope and settling into a nurturing rest. Includes beautiful quotes by Amy Lowell and Rumi.

2. Waking Up to a New Day

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​Claire and the Sage Woman is a story about mentorship, transformation and synchronicity.  A 14- year old girl in Chicago and an older native American woman meet on a bus one day  and their lives are forever changed because of this relationship.This is a long story but I believe that even if you don’t stay awake, your unconscious will receive it’s inspiration and you will be gently lulled  into a peaceful sleep. Quotes by Carl Jung and John Buxton.

3. Claire and the Sage Woman

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This bedtime story is the next installment after the earlier tale of Claire and the SageWoman. In this story, 17 year old Claire embarks on a hero's journey that eventually helps her transform feelings of loneliness and her struggle to understand the meaning of life and death. This transformation unfolds when she meets a Swedish nun in Minnesota who introduces her to the life of St. Clare of Assisi. Quotes by Claire of Assisi and Father Richard Rohr.

4. Claire and the Sisters of Assisi

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In this story,  Claire awakens from a dream about flying and is inspired to carry over the magic of this dream into her waking life. We follow Claire through a delicious summer day where she intentionally brings mindfulness into her experiences of nature and embodiment. Some of her journey includes an early morning swim, an immersion into the sounds of a summer shower, sunset at the river and so much more.
Through present awareness, she is able to navigate through the thoughts and memories of loss and grief and reconnect with the joy of nature and her own ability to "co-create" her life by tuning into the "receptive mode" one moment at a time. The story ends with an excerpt from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. 

5. Claire's Magical Summer Day

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This  story we follow Claire as she experiences both the beauty and letting go that the season of Autumn symbolizes...  while also coming to terms with the reality of a hurricane that transforms her town. She taps into the practice of mindfulness, reminiscing and embodiment to reconnect with inner wisdom. This recording ends with a poem called "The Autumn Tree" that highlights the power of resilience as we age and the importance of deepening our spiritual roots. 
As with all of these bedtime stories, the intention is to soothe you into a deep and restful sleep.


6. Claire's Autumn Day After the Hurricane

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​We journey with Claire as she reflects on the memories of winter and a Christmas Eve with 82 year old Hanna, the sheep farmer. As Claire reminisces, it becomes evident that the them for setting her New Year's Intention, centers on deepening her connection with the wise beings who have "gone before".  Quotes from the Bible, Rumi, Albert Camus and an inspiring poem about ancestors by Gloria Burgess

7. Claire's Winter Day and the Good Shepherdess

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.In this story, we will be exploring the depth of love between a grandmother and granddaughter, that fosters the  compassionate and creative spirit. Claire spends a weekend away at her grandmother's house, away from the rigidity of everyday responsibilities, where she can be immersed into a magical, loving journey that includes, toys, tea parties, dolls, nature, songs, laughter and more.
A wonderful mentor once advised me to remember to be a loving engaged grandmother to myself. This choice to be fully present with ourselves, nurturing connection and creativity is the best healing gift we can offer to the places within us that feel vulnerable, abandoned and lost.  It is this journey of integrating the inner child and the inner wise one that brings deep healing.
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8. Claire's Grandmother Love

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​In this final installment of Claire Bedtime Stories for each season, we celebrate spring and the process of rebirth. Claire explores the power of nature (especially flowers), music and creativity with reflections on Georgia O'Keeffe and Tchaikovsky's  "Waltz of the Flowers". She also reflects on the reality of climate change, quoting from "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson; referencing the importance of nurturing our environment. Additional quotes come from Anais Nin, and Song of Solomon.



9. Claire's Spring Inspiration

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I wanted to include this meditation as the final piece in this story book because it captures the inspiration that guides Claire through her challenges. This meditation takes you into a visceral connection with the many blessings of the Divine Feminine. It is a gentle reminder that this nurturing presence is always available and when we embody this compassionate presence, we are free to heal, to grow, & to share this light with the world. The Divine Feminine presence helped me navigate the dark waters of illness and loss. With this awareness and connection, I learned even more about the importance of self care and how divine compassionate presence was the key to my own healing. May this practice remind you of the power of this presence within you.



10. Twenty-One  Blessings from the Divine Feminine
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