Ep096: The Power of Bedtime Stories: How to Slumber Like a Kid Again - With Michelle Hotaling

OVERVIEW

Reading bedtime stories usually serves as a quality time between parents and their children. But according to some research, there are other benefits that your child can get from doing this nighttime routine. One of those is it helps to boost your child’s brain development by using their imagination while listening to these bedtime stories. But one of the most evident benefits of reading stories before bedtime is helping your child to have a good night of sleep.

But is bedtime stories for kids only? Of course not. Adults can also enjoy the benefits of reading or listening to bedtime stories. Listening to bedtime tales read by narrators with soothing voices is a great way to reduce stress and relax your mind that can help you sleep and slumber like a kid again.

In this episode, I am very delighted to have on the show Michelle Hotaling the founder of Michelle’s Sanctuary youtube channel. Just like the others Michelle also suffered from insomnia and anxiety that leads her to discover and listen to sleep stories and meditation on youtube. In this interview, she will share how powerful listening to a bedtime story is and how it can also help you fall and stay asleep just like her. Tune in and learn how you can effortlessly dive into a deep sleep as you used to when you were a kid.

WHAT WILL WE LEARN

01:01 How Michelle started her youtube channel “Michelle's Sanctuary: Sleep Stories & Meditations”
03:36 How listening to bedtime stories can help you fall and stay asleep
04:40 How Michelle narrates her bedtime stories to connect her listeners with their own stories and imaginations
06:18 Avoid scrolling your phones before bedtime: Make every night your mental vacation
08:14 Michelle's inspiration on her bedtime sleep stories
09:45 What Michelle's listeners like about listening to her bedtime stories
11:38 Methods on how to remember your dream
14:42 Dream and its power to heal
16:21 What keeps Michelle from doing her job as a sleep storyteller
18:03 How listening to sleep stories can help you fall asleep
20:03 Michelle and her plans to improve her channel
21:55 Michelle and her experience on how her manifestation come to life
25:38 How to reach Michelle and where you can find her sleep stories