Advertise on podcast: Rest: Sleepy Bedtime Stories

Can't sleep? Fall asleep fast in a lighthouse on a starry night - a cozy sleep story for grown-ups with gentle ocean waves and soft music throughout. Tonight, escape to the island of Lumera with Mabel, the Lighthouse Keeper. Step in from the cool night air into warm lamplight, climb the spiral stairs to the lantern room as the lens turns softly above you, and watch a rare meteor shower cross the sky. 🌊 Soundscape: gentle ocean waves + soft ambient music throughout the story 💤 Perfect for: insomnia, overthinking, nighttime anxiety, need to fall asleep fast 🎧 Best listened to out loud and in a dark room. NEW STORY EVERY TUESDAY. Welcome to Rest, I'm Jessika Gössl — storyteller and narrator. I created Rest for grown-ups who need to feel looked after at the end of the day. MORE REST: 🌙 Free bedtime story download — https://restpodcast.beehiiv.com/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music — linktr.ee/RestPodcast  Music: 'Boundless' by Tranquilium on Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/c/tranquilium License code: VLV7WDEXAE9988K2

Can't sleep? Fall asleep fast in a secret treehouse hideaway high in the rainforest - a cozy sleep story with gentle rain, rainforest ambience and soft music throughout. Tonight, step off the damp forest floor and climb a creaking wooden walkway into warm lamplight above the canopy, past orchids and butterflies, over a clear stream, to a small wooden hideaway tucked deep in the treetops. Settle into a swaying hammock as fireflies blink gold below and soft rain patters on leaves high above you. 🌧️ Soundscape: gentle rain + soft rainforest ambience with crickets + soft ambient music throughout the story 💤 Perfect for: insomnia, overthinking, nighttime anxiety, need to fall asleep fast 🎧 Best listened out loud and in a dark room. NEW STORY EVERY TUESDAY. Welcome to Rest, I'm Jessika Gössl — storyteller and narrator. I created Rest for grown-ups who need to feel looked after at the end of the day. MORE REST: 🌙 Free bedtime story download — https://restpodcast.beehiiv.com/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music — linktr.ee/RestPodcast  Music: 'Boundless' by Tranquilium on Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/c/tranquilium License code: N9P78GRWSRNQAGNZ

Can't sleep? Fall asleep fast to 5 and a 1/2 hours of classic fairytales for sleep, read slowly for grown-ups with gentle rain sounds throughout and soft music. This cozy bedtime compilation gathers 13 classic bedtime stories for adults in one uninterrupted sleep story — no interruptions, no loud changes, just calm narration to help you unwind, relax, and drift off. 💤 Settle in, you don't need to stay awake for any of this. If you wake in the night, just stay cozy and let these fairytales carry you back to sleep.   📖 Stories in order:  Cinderella Thumbelina Goldilocks Sleeping Beauty Rapunzel Beauty and the Beast Snow White The Velveteen Rabbit The Fisherman and His Wife The Frog Prince The 12 Dancing Princesses Jorinda and Jorindel How the Whale Got His Throat NEW bedtime stories every Tuesday. Welcome to Rest, I'm Jessika Gössl - English storyteller and narrator. I created Rest for grown-ups who need to feel looked after at the end of the day. MORE REST: 🌙 Free Rest story download: https://restpodcast.beehiiv.com/ 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music: https://linktr.ee/RestPodcast Music: 'Boundless' by Tranquilium on Uppbeat  https://uppbeat.io/c/tranquilium License code: BN534NYLRTQQQ01E

Can't sleep? Fall asleep fast in a Victorian mansion that remembers you — a cozy sleep story for grown ups with gentle rain and soft music to quiet racing thoughts. Tonight, step in from the rainy street into warm lamplight, creaking wood and quiet rooms that feel like they've been waiting for you. Let the rain on the windows and low, relaxing music for sleep slow your breathing and carry you off to sleep. 🌧️ Sound effects: rain sounds for sleep + soft ambient music throughout the story 💤 Perfect for: insomnia, overthinking, nighttime anxiety, need to fall asleep fast 🎧 Best listened out loud, lights low and in a dark room NEW STORY EVERY TUESDAY. Welcome to Rest, I'm Jessika Gössl - English storyteller and narrator. I created Rest for grown-ups who need to feel looked after at the end of the day. MORE REST: 🌙 Free Rest story download: https://restpodcast.beehiiv.com/ 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music: https://linktr.ee/RestPodcast Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/boundless License code: KNSKDDHT3GR3VCMD

Can't sleep? Fall asleep fast in Mr. Whitlock's cozy clock repair shop on a rainy night — a calming sleep story for grown-ups with immersive rain sounds throughout. Tonight, step in from the rainy street into a warm, dry clock shop filled with golden lamplight, shelves of ticking clocks, and the smell of old wood and warm tea. Mr. Whitlock, the Snooze-Button Repairman, believes five extra minutes of soft waking can change your whole day. As rain falls outside, listen to his quiet kindness and the young man Daniel who discovers how one small, generous moment can echo for years.  🌧️ Sound effects: gentle rain  💤 Perfect for: insomnia, racing thoughts, nighttime anxiety, need to fall asleep fast 🔊 For the best experience, listen out loud and in a dark room. NEW STORY EVERY TUESDAY. Welcome to Rest, I'm Jessika Gössl - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast for you, because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day.  MORE REST: 🌙 Free Rest story download: https://restpodcast.beehiiv.com/ 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music: https://linktr.ee/RestPodcast #sleepstory #rainsounds #bedtimestory

Can't sleep? Escape to Thistledown Books — a tiny rainy bookshop where the fire is always lit, the tea is always warm, and a tabby cat sleeps on the counter. Fall asleep fast with this cozy rain sounds sleep story for adults.  🌧️ Sound effects: gentle rain 💤 Perfect for: falling asleep fast, stress relief, anxiety at night, and cozy rainy night relaxation 🔊 For the best experience, listen out loud and in a dark room. NEW STORY EVERY TUESDAY. Welcome to Rest, I'm Jessika Gössl - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast for you, because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day.  MORE REST: 🌙 Free bedtime story download — https://restpodcast.beehiiv.com/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music — linktr.ee/RestPodcast

Can't sleep? Escape to a small wooden cabin deep in the woods while a thunderstorm rolls through the pines 🌧️⛈️ Sound effects: gentle rain and thunder  Let the steady rain on the roof, distant thunder, and crackling fireplace do the work of getting you to sleep. This cozy sleep story with rain and thunder sounds is designed for grown-ups who need to feel safe, warm, and held — until you drift off. In tonight's story, you leave the noise of the day behind, gather wood as heavy grey clouds build, build a fire in a stone hearth, make hot cocoa, and settle under thick woollen quilts while the storm rages and then softens into a watery lullaby.  Press play, get comfortable, and let the storm cradle you to sleep. 💤 Perfect for: falling asleep fast, stress relief, anxiety at night, and cozy rainy night relaxation 🎧 For the best experience, listen out loud, in a dark room. NEW STORY EVERY TUESDAY. MORE REST: 🌙 Free bedtime story download — https://restpodcast.beehiiv.com/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music — linktr.ee/RestPodcast

On a rainy afternoon, Ava discovers a forgotten photo album in her grandparents' attic. When she pauses on a single faded photograph, she's carried to a heartwarming place she never expected.📷 Writer: Alicia Steffann✍️  Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one 😊 Does a song, a smell or an old photograph ever take you straight back to childhood? Drop a 📷 on this episode. I'm Jessika - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day. I'm so glad you're here. 🌙 Download a free Rest bedtime story — "The Library Between Dreams": restpodcast.beehiiv.com ✨ Find everything Rest in one place: linktr.ee/RestPodcast 📱 Instagram: instagram.com/unwindwithrest ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@UnwindWithRest 🎙️ If Rest has ever helped you sleep — a review on Apple Podcasts or a rating on Spotify helps more grown-ups find their way here. Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/cloudette License code: GIQGAW30SW4NKXBI

In tonight's bedtime story, two siblings set up a lemonade stand at the end of their quiet street with a handpainted sign 🍋  As the afternoon grows warmer, their neighbours start to arrive, and through each cup of lemonade, we learn a little about everyone who lives on this quiet street.  Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one 😊 Did you ever have a lemonade stand as a child? Drop a 🍋 on this episode — I'd love to know! I'm Jessika - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day. I'm so glad you're here. 🌙 Download a free Rest bedtime story — "The Library Between Dreams": restpodcast.beehiiv.com ✨ Find everything Rest in one place: linktr.ee/RestPodcast 📱 Instagram: instagram.com/unwindwithrest ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@UnwindWithRest 🎙️ If Rest has ever helped you sleep — a review on Apple Podcasts or a rating on Spotify helps more grown-ups find their way here. Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/cloudette License code: QDTKOA49TZFGDWHB

Tonight, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole, and everything she thought she knew about the world goes wonderfully, impossibly sideways 🐇  This is Chapters 1 and 2 of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; the beginning of one of the most magical stories ever written, read slowly and softly for the part of you that just needs to fall gently into somewhere extraordinary.  Drop a 🐇 if Alice in Wonderland was a childhood favourite. Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one 😊 I'm Jessika - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day. I'm so glad you're here. 🌙 Download a free Rest bedtime story — "The Library Between Dreams": restpodcast.beehiiv.com ✨ Find everything Rest in one place: linktr.ee/RestPodcast 📱 Instagram: instagram.com/unwindwithrest ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@UnwindWithRest 🎙️ If Rest has ever helped you sleep — a review on Apple Podcasts or a rating on Spotify helps more grown-ups find their way here. Music from Uppbeat Music from Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/present License code: ESWJIPUM3JUY4YLQ

It is a summer morning in 1530, and the market has come to Shrewsbury, England 🏰  Tonight you'll wander through the cloth merchants and the food stalls, past the spice trader whose wares have travelled through a dozen countries to reach this square, past the glove-maker's beautiful rows and the travelling players on the market cross steps — before finding your bench in the shade of an old elm tree, where the morning will hold you, gently and without condition, until you sleep. Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one 😊 I'm Jessika - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day. I'm so glad you're here. 🌙 Download a free Rest bedtime story — "The Library Between Dreams": restpodcast.beehiiv.com ✨ Find everything Rest in one place: linktr.ee/RestPodcast 📱 Instagram: instagram.com/unwindwithrest ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@UnwindWithRest 🎙️ If Rest has ever helped you sleep — a review on Apple Podcasts or a rating on Spotify helps more grown-ups find their way here. Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/still-center License code: NSWMHWI9IHSYGQQP

You know the story of Little Red Riding Hood... But you've never heard it like this 🐺🧺 Tonight, we follow the wolf, as he tracks something dangerous moving through his forest toward a red-hooded girl and a little cottage at the end of the trees. Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one. 🌙 I'm Jessika - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day. I'm so glad you're here 🌙 Support Rest: Rate the show on Spotify and leave comments on your favourite episodesLeave me a review on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to my YouTube channelConnect with Rest: Stay up to date with all things Rest on Instagram  Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/boundless License code: YAZQVYDTVAJI1GOG

Tonight, the Librarian is holding something that hums 📖✨ We return to the Library Between Dreams... but tonight it opens into a garden where lullabies grow like flowers, where drowsy bees drift between blossoms and where the river that runs through the centre of everything rocks you slowly, gently, further into sleep than you have ever been. The Book of Lullabies is waiting for you. Narrated by Jessika Gössl 🎙️ Written by Grace Ford✍️  🌙 Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one.  Has the Library Between Dreams helped you sleep? Drop a 📖 on this episode and let me know - it means so much to hear from you. I'm Jessika - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day. I'm so glad you're here 🌙 Support Rest: Rate the show on Spotify and leave comments on your favourite episodesLeave me a review on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to my YouTube channelConnect with Rest: Stay up to date with all things Rest on Instagram  Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/rose License code: IAZCKRYDDNA4TAZL

Tonight, the map to sweet dreams is waiting for you... 🗺️🌙 Tonight's journey will take you to the Foggy Shore of Yawns, through the Weighted Hills, and into the deepest, most velvet-dark cavern you have ever rested in. Narrated by Jessika Gössl 🎙️ Written by Grace Ford✍️  🔔 Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one.  Have you visited the Library Between Dreams before? Drop a 🗺️ on this episode and tell me which story is your favourite so far - I'd love to know. I'm Jessika - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day. I'm so glad you're here. 🌙 Download a free Rest bedtime story — "The Library Between Dreams": restpodcast.beehiiv.com ✨ Find everything Rest in one place: linktr.ee/RestPodcast 📱 Instagram: instagram.com/unwindwithrest ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@UnwindWithRest 🎙️ If Rest has ever helped you sleep — a review on Apple Podcasts or a rating on Spotify helps more grown-ups find their way here. Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/rose License code: CFSHDAI8LHFKMNPC

Spring has come to Heidi's mountain — but so has an unwelcome visitor ⛰️🐐 In tonight's chapter, of Johanna Spyri's beloved classic, the world below the mountain comes knocking, and everything is about to change. Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one 😊 I'm Jessika - storyteller, narrator, and the English voice behind Rest. I created this podcast because I believe everyone deserves a moment of peace and calm at the end of the day. I'm so glad you're here. 🌙 Download a free Rest bedtime story — "The Library Between Dreams": restpodcast.beehiiv.com ✨ Find everything Rest in one place: linktr.ee/RestPodcast 📱 Instagram: instagram.com/unwindwithrest ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@UnwindWithRest 🎙️ If Rest has ever helped you sleep — a review on Apple Podcasts or a rating on Spotify helps more grown-ups find their way here. Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/ambient-lull License code: 1P6UWZ6INYUZYQJZ