Books at Bedtime by Calming Anxiety - Alice in Wonderland Chapter 7

Books at Bedtime by Calming Anxiety - Alice in Wonderland Chapter 7

"A Mad Tea Party" — Alice in Wonderland (Chapter 7) | Books at BedtimeDrift off to a deep, peaceful sleep with Chapter 7 of Lewis Carroll’s timeless classic, Alice in Wonderland. In tonight’s episode of Books at Bedtime, we journey into "A Mad Tea Party". Let the nonsensical, rhythmic banter of the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the sleepy Dormouse lull your busy mind into a state of calm relaxation. If you are struggling with insomnia, late-night anxiety, or a restless mind, this soft-spoken, comforting narration is designed specifically to help you disconnect from the day and transition smoothly into a night of deep, restorative rest.🌙 What You’ll Experience TonightTonight, we follow Alice as she stumbles upon a chaotic yet oddly soothing tea party under the trees. Listen close as the characters trade impossible riddles, argue over the mechanics of a watch that only tells the day of the month, and share whimsical tales of three little sisters living at the bottom of a treacle well. The repetitive, dreamlike logic of Wonderland acts as the perfect distraction for an overactive brain. As the Dormouse drifts in and out of sleep, you will find yourself naturally matching its heavy-lidded pace, allowing yourself to finally let go and fall asleep. ✨ Key Time Stamps * 00:00 – Cozy Introduction & Welcome to Books at Bedtime * 00:09 – Alice approaches the Mad Tea Party * 02:12 – The Riddle of the Raven and the Writing Desk * 03:45 – The Hatter’s Strange Watch & Explaining "Time" * 07:54 – The Story of the Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat * 10:36 – The Dormouse’s Sleepy Tale of the Treacle Well * 15:39 – Alice finds the door in the tree and enters the beautiful garden 🌟 Premium Subscribers: Anchored App ExclusiveThis episode is a proud part of the Books at Bedtime collection within the Anchored app premium feed. For an entirely ad-free experience, extended sleep soundscapes, and exclusive access to our complete library of bedtime stories and hypnotherapy-infused relaxation tracks, make sure to open your Anchored app and listen via the premium feed tonight. 👉 Click to subscribe and unlock ad-free episodes now! Support the Show:Ad-Free Listening: Enjoy Calming Anxiety without ads at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety--4110266/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety--4110266/support] Buy Me a Coffee: Support hosting costs at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calminganxiety [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calminganxiety] https://calminganxietypodcast.substack.com/?r=6zm0sc&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to help us reach more listeners! YouTube: Watch all episodes at https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1]  Social Media Support: For younger listeners struggling with social media stress, visit https://www.icanhelp.net/ [https://www.icanhelp.net/] Backing Music: Chris Collins =================== Affiliate links to the gear I use the items that give me a more tranquil life. ============================= Items I use for a more relaxed way of life :) Organic Pure Hemp CBD Capsules - https://amzn.to/3 Ready for More Calm?Thank you for listening to the Calming Anxiety Podcast, featuring guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep hypnosis sessions with Martin Hewlett. Our mission is to provide you with proven tools for anxiety relief, stress reduction, and a path toward deep relaxation. Use this episode anytime you need to calm your mind and feel more at ease.

I Can't Switch Off — A 10-Minute Guided Meditation for When My Mind Won't Calm Down

In this 10-minute guided meditation, Clinical Hypnotherapist and former paramedic Martin Hewlett helps you gently interrupt the pattern of anxious thinking. Using the metaphor of a settling snow globe, we explore how to stop fighting your thoughts and instead allow your nervous system to find its natural rhythm of peace. Time Chapters * 00:00 – Understanding the Anxious Mind * 00:58 – Introduction by Martin Hewlett * 01:29 – Breathing Exercise: The 4-2-6 Technique * 03:13 – The Snow Globe Visualization * 04:40 – Learning to Let Go and Sink Deeper * 06:05 – Affirmations for a Restful Mind * 07:13 – 3 Daily Caring Tips for Genuine Relief * 09:12 – Coming Back & Awareness * 09:53 – Outro & Resources Today’s AffirmationsSpeak these silently to yourself to help anchor your mind in the present: * My mind is allowed to rest. * I do not need to solve anything tonight. * My thoughts can pass; I do not have to follow them. * I am safe in this moment; this moment is enough. * I am coming home to calm. 3 Daily Caring Tips 1. Set the Globe Down: Physically place an object down (like your phone or glasses) while exhaling to signal to your brain that it is safe to release. 2. Give Thoughts a Curfew: Schedule 10 minutes earlier in the evening to write down worries so your brain doesn't feel the need to process them at bedtime. 3. Replace the Loop with a Line: When a thought repeats, interrupt it with one simple, grounding truth: "I am here. I am safe. This will pass." Take the Next StepIf you found relief in today's session, please share this episode with someone who might be struggling with a racing mind. Your support helps us keep these daily sessions free for everyone. For those ready to move beyond the symptoms and break the cycle of anxiety for good, join me in my Anxiety Circuit Breaker Course. It features five focused clinical hypnotherapy sessions designed to rewire your response to stress. * Access the Course: calminganxiety.fm [https://www.google.com/search?q=https://calminganxiety.fm] Be kind to yourself today. 👉 Click to subscribe and unlock ad-free episodes now! Support the Show:Ad-Free Listening: Enjoy Calming Anxiety without ads at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety--4110266/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety--4110266/support] Buy Me a Coffee: Support hosting costs at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calminganxiety [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calminganxiety] https://calminganxietypodcast.substack.com/?r=6zm0sc&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to help us reach more listeners! YouTube: Watch all episodes at https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1]  Social Media Support: For younger listeners struggling with social media stress, visit https://www.icanhelp.net/ [https://www.icanhelp.net/] Backing Music: Chris Collins =================== Affiliate links to the gear I use the items that give me a more tranquil life. ============================= Items I use for a more relaxed way of life :) Organic Pure Hemp CBD Capsules - https://amzn.to/3 Ready for More Calm?Thank you for listening to the Calming Anxiety Podcast, featuring guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep hypnosis sessions with Martin Hewlett. Our mission is to provide you with proven tools for anxiety relief, stress reduction, and a path toward deep relaxation. Use this episode anytime you need to calm your mind and feel more at ease.

Books at Bedtime by Calming Anxiety - Alice in Wonderland Chapter 6

Let go of daytime worries and sink into a deep, comforting slumber with the Anchored meditation app. As a cherished addition to our Books at Bedtime library, this episode features Chapter 6 of Lewis Carroll's beloved classic: Pig and Pepper.If you find yourself tossing and turning, battling insomnia, or needing an escape from late-night nighttime anxiety, this enchanting, surreal audio journey is the perfect addition to your nightly sleep routine.Why this episode is perfect for sleep and relaxation: * Surreal Cognitive Anchor: Follow Alice as she navigates the bizarre rules of the Duchess’s house and holds a thoughtful, twisting conversation with the enigmatic Cheshire Cat. The whimsical nonsense logic is highly effective at derailing stressful, looping thoughts, giving your brain a safe, comforting space to switch off. * Hypnotic Pacing: Listen as the bustling energy of the kitchen gently gives way to the quiet, still woods where the Cheshire Cat speaks in deliberate, mysterious riddles. The iconic, slow-vanishing grin acts as a beautiful metaphor for your own conscious thoughts slowly fading into a dream. * Premium Sleep Audio: Paced perfectly for effortless relaxation, this track features soothing vocal tones designed to slow your breathing, lower your heart rate, and settle a busy nervous system for deep, restorative sleep. Dim your lights, slide under the covers, and let the Anchored app ease you into a peaceful rest tonight. Your journey into Wonderland awaits. 👉 Click to subscribe and unlock ad-free episodes now! Support the Show:Ad-Free Listening: Enjoy Calming Anxiety without ads at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety--4110266/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety--4110266/support] Buy Me a Coffee: Support hosting costs at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calminganxiety [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calminganxiety] https://calminganxietypodcast.substack.com/?r=6zm0sc&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to help us reach more listeners! YouTube: Watch all episodes at https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1]  Social Media Support: For younger listeners struggling with social media stress, visit https://www.icanhelp.net/ [https://www.icanhelp.net/] Backing Music: Chris Collins =================== Affiliate links to the gear I use the items that give me a more tranquil life. ============================= Items I use for a more relaxed way of life :) Organic Pure Hemp CBD Capsules - https://amzn.to/3 Ready for More Calm?Thank you for listening to the Calming Anxiety Podcast, featuring guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep hypnosis sessions with Martin Hewlett. Our mission is to provide you with proven tools for anxiety relief, stress reduction, and a path toward deep relaxation. Use this episode anytime you need to calm your mind and feel more at ease.

Why Do I Feel This? Way A 10-Minute Guided Release for Anxious Emotions

🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE   Why do I feel this way? If that question is running through your mind right now, this guided meditation for anxiety is for you.   Anxious emotions don't always arrive with a reason. Sometimes the anxiety is there before the thought — the nervous system fires before the mind has a chance to catch up. In that gap between the feeling and the explanation lives so much unnecessary suffering.   In this 10-minute guided release for anxious emotions, clinical hypnotherapist and former frontline paramedic Martin Hewlett walks you through a simple, clinically-grounded three-step process for emotion regulation: feel it, name it, and let it go.   This is not a meditation about pushing feelings away. It is about nervous system regulation — working with your anxiety, not against it.   Perfect for: anxious emotions | emotion regulation | why do I feel this way | guided meditation for anxiety | nervous system regulation | meditation for overwhelm | how to calm anxiety | anxiety relief     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   ⏱️ CHAPTERS   0:00 — Cold Open — Why Do I Feel This Way?   1:03 — Welcome | Martin Hewlett | Clinical Hypnotherapist & Former Paramedic   1:34 — Vagus Nerve Breathing — 4-2-6 Technique   3:20 — Visualisation — Feel It, Name It, Let It Go   6:49 — Affirmations — First Pass   8:00 — Drift & Release   8:20 — Three Daily Caring Tips   9:52 — Wake-Up Close   10:09 — CTA — Anxiety Circuit Breaker Course     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   ✨ AFFIRMATIONS FROM THIS EPISODE   I am allowed to feel what I feel without it defining me.   My emotions are messengers, not masters.   I can feel this, name this, and release this.   My nervous system is learning to find safety.   I do not need to understand every feeling to let it go.     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   💛 THREE DAILY CARING TIPS   1. The Name Game   Next time an anxious emotion arrives without explanation, stop before you fight it or flee it. Give it one word — just one. Dread. Restlessness. Grief. The act of naming shifts the brain from reactive to reflective. Do this once, and the feeling almost always softens within sixty seconds.     2. The Exhale Reset   Wherever you are — your desk, your car, the school run — one extended out breath is all it takes to begin nervous system regulation. In for four, out for six. You do not need a meditation room. You don't need ten minutes. You just need the breath you already have.     3. Permission to Not Know   You don't always need to understand why you feel this way. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do for anxious emotions is simply say: I feel this, and I don't need to solve it right now. Curiosity without pressure is one of the fastest routes back to calm.     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   🎓 READY TO GO DEEPER?   If today's session helped you, the Anxiety Circuit Breaker course is your next step.   Five focused clinical hypnotherapy sessions — built specifically to change how you relate to your anxiety, for good.   👉 calminganxiety.fm — just $67   Each session is written and recorded by Martin Hewlett — clinical hypnotherapist and former frontline paramedic. Not a generic wellness programme. Clinical work, in ten minutes a day.     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   🎙️ ABOUT THE SHOW   Calming Anxiety with Martin Hewlett is a daily 10-minute guided meditation and clinical hypnotherapy session — published every single day since October 2019.   Hosted by Martin Hewlett, a clinical hypnotherapist and former frontline paramedic.   ✅ 10 million+ lifetime downloads ✅ 158 countries ✅ Rated #1 UK Mindfulness Podcast — Feedspot, March 2026 ✅ #1 on Apple Podcasts US & UK for panic attack relief ✅ Always free. No paywall. No paid promotion.   Every listener found this show through search — because when anxiety hits, people search for help. And Calming Anxiety is where they land. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief--4110266/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief--4110266/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Ready for More Calm?Thank you for listening to the Calming Anxiety Podcast, featuring guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep hypnosis sessions with Martin Hewlett. Our mission is to provide you with proven tools for anxiety relief, stress reduction, and a path toward deep relaxation. Use this episode anytime you need to calm your mind and feel more at ease.

Books at Bedtime by Calming Anxiety - Alice in Wonderland Chapter 5

Unwind, let go of the day, and ease your mind into tranquil relaxation with the Anchored meditation app. As a featured selection in our Books at Bedtime library, this episode presents Chapter 5 of Lewis Carroll's beloved masterpiece: Advice from a Caterpillar.If you are struggling to quiet a racing mind, dealing with insomnia, or looking to soothe late-night nighttime anxiety, this dreamlike tale is a beautiful addition to your nightly sleep routine.Why this episode works for sleep and relaxation: * Languid, Sleepy Cadence: Experience the notoriously slow, hypnotic conversation between Alice and the Caterpillar. The Caterpillar’s deliberate, sleepy dialogue acts as a natural pacing mechanism to help slow your breathing and lower your heart rate. * Comforting Cognitive Distraction: Listen as Alice tries to navigate the absurd logic of the Wonderland forest and recites the whimsical poem You Are Old, Father William. This gentle narrative provides just enough mental focus to distract you from tomorrow's worries without keeping your brain alert. * Immersive Relaxation Audio: Crafted specifically for bedtime listening, the calm vocal delivery and tranquil pacing of this track are designed to reduce stress, calm the nervous system, and smoothly guide you into a state of deep, restorative sleep. Turn off the world, sink deep into your pillows, and let the Anchored app gently drift you off to sleep. 👉 Click to subscribe and unlock ad-free episodes now! Support the Show:Ad-Free Listening: Enjoy Calming Anxiety without ads at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety--4110266/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety--4110266/support] Buy Me a Coffee: Support hosting costs at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calminganxiety [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/calminganxiety] https://calminganxietypodcast.substack.com/?r=6zm0sc&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to help us reach more listeners! YouTube: Watch all episodes at https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1]  Social Media Support: For younger listeners struggling with social media stress, visit https://www.icanhelp.net/ [https://www.icanhelp.net/] Backing Music: Chris Collins =================== Affiliate links to the gear I use the items that give me a more tranquil life. ============================= Items I use for a more relaxed way of life :) Organic Pure Hemp CBD Capsules - https://amzn.to/3 Ready for More Calm?Thank you for listening to the Calming Anxiety Podcast, featuring guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep hypnosis sessions with Martin Hewlett. Our mission is to provide you with proven tools for anxiety relief, stress reduction, and a path toward deep relaxation. Use this episode anytime you need to calm your mind and feel more at ease.