Sleep Wave: Sleep Meditation & Sleepy Stories
Sleep Wave is a podcast that helps you relax and fall asleep with guided sleep meditations and sleepy stories. Hosted by Karissa Vacker, an award-winning voice and meditation guide, it releases new episodes weekly. Premium membership offers over 100 bonus episodes and ad-free listening.
Episodes
Can't Switch Off After a Busy Day? ✨ Mini Meditation To Help You Unwind
In this mini meditation with Karissa, you’ll move from the busyness of the day into a slower, steadier rhythm for rest.
With calming breathwork and the image of a dimmer switch, this short practice helps turn down the noise of the day and reminds you that you are allowed to stop.
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Twilight At Angkor Wat ✨ Sleep Meditation with Visualization & Body Scan
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we journey to Cambodia as twilight settles over Angkor Wat. Through ancient temple corridors and a peaceful villa beneath the stars, this calming visualization helps quiet the mind and release the day as you settle into deep, restorative sleep.
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How To Welcome Change ✨ Wednesday Wisdom Mini Episode
In this week’s Wednesday Wisdom, Karissa reflects on the seasons of growth that ask us to become more than we thought we could be. From parenthood to life’s other big transitions, she explores the power of meeting change with compassion, presence, and self-trust.
To listen to the full meditation, search for Welcoming Change in the Sleep Wave feed.
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Cloud Gardening ✨ Cozy Bedtime Story with Karissa Vacker
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we follow Maude as she leaves city life behind for a quiet mountain cabin, where she discovers the shifting beauty of the clouds.
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Can't Rest Even Though You're Exhausted? Try This ✨ Mini Meditation For Relaxation
In tonight's mini meditation with Karissa, we’re slowing down racing thoughts and helping the mind follow the body into rest.
If you’re exhausted but still mentally “on,” this short practice will help you soften the noise of the day, release the pressure to force sleep, and settle into a quieter, calmer state before bed.
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Release Emotional Heaviness ✨ Sleep Meditation for Depression
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we’re settling into a calming practice designed to help ease feelings of depression, heaviness, and emotional exhaustion.
Through breath work and the image of a quiet fire beneath the stars, this meditation creates space to release what feels too heavy to carry, reconnect with a sense of warmth and light within yourself, and rest without pressure or ex
Finding Peace During Restless Nights ✨ Wednesday Wisdom Mini Episode
In tonight's Wednesday Wisdom, Karissa reflects on those restless nights when the mind refuses to settle - and the quiet relief that can come from surrendering what we cannot solve in the moment.
This calming episode offers a reminder that not everything needs to be carried into the night. To listen to the full meditation, search “Sleep Wave – Finding The Peace Within You.”
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A Friendship In Letters ✨ Calming Bedtime Story To Help You Fall Asleep Fast
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we go on a cozy journey to Oxford to meet Queenie, who is about to meet her pen pal for the very first time.
Set sixty years after their friendship began through handwritten letters, this warm story is the perfect companion for a peaceful night’s rest.
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Settle Your Mind Before Rest ✨ Relaxing Mini Meditation
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa helps you slow the movement of the mind and settle into stillness at the end of the day.
With calming breathwork and the image of a quiet lake at night, you’ll let thoughts drift gently past as your body softens into rest.
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Calming Anxious Thoughts ✨ Sleep Meditation For Anxiety & Stress
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, she explores the anxious thoughts that can keep the mind moving long after the day is done - and how learning to sit with them can create space for rest.
This meditation has been created with Mental Health Awareness Month in mind, helping you to soften mental tension, release the need to figure everything out tonight, and settle back into the present mo
How To Find Stillness Amongst The Busyness ✨ Wednesday Wisdom Mini Episode
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom with Karissa reflects on the importance of slowing down - and making space to simply be still.
Through a personal story she reminds us that rest often requires intention, especially during life’s transitions. Learning to pause, even briefly, can help settle the nervous system and make space for clarity and deeper rest.
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Let Memories Come and Go ✨ Sleep Meditation for Presence and Rest
In tonight’s meditation with Karissa, you’re guided into a state of presence - where memories can arise without pulling you away from rest.
As thoughts and memories come and go, this practice helps you stay grounded in the here and now, creating space, perspective, and a deeper sense of calm as you drift toward sleep.
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Let Your Body Unwind ✨ Mini Meditation For Releasing Tension
In tonight’s mini meditation with Karissa, you’re invited to release the physical tension your body may still be holding from the day.
With a simple body scan, this short practice helps you unwind, letting tightness melt away so your body can settle into a calmer, more restful state.
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A Proposal At The Cornish Cat Cafe ✨ Cozy & Romantic Bedtime Story
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we return to Pennyworth Cove, where a long-awaited proposal at the Cornish Cat Cafe keeps getting delayed by village life.
A cozy, romantic tale where nothing goes to plan - but everything works out exactly as it should.
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You Deserve Rest ✨ Wednesday Wisdom | Mini Episode
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom with Karissa reflects on the idea that rest isn’t something you have to earn.
With a simple shift in perspective, she invites you to create small moments of care throughout your day - so when it’s time to sleep, you can truly let go and settle into rest more easily.
To listen to the full meditation, search “Sleep Wave - Caring For Your Future Self.”
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The Changing Seasons ✨ Relaxing Sleep Meditation with Visualization
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re carried to the lavender fields of Provence, where a peaceful journey unfolds from sunset into sleep.
Through rich imagery and slow, steady breathing, you’ll release the day, let go of comparison, and settle into a deeper sense of calm, growth, and rest.
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Quiet Racing Thoughts Tonight ✨ Mini Meditation For Restless Minds
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa helps you step away from a busy mind and allow it to settle.
With calming breath and a simple evening-sky visualization, you’ll let thoughts drift by - creating space for your body to relax and ease into rest.
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Mystery On The Paris Express ✨ Calming Bedtime Story For Sleep
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we journey aboard the Paris Express, where a curious mystery begins to unfold.
As the train carries you into the night, the story of a missing diamond and one clever sleuth will guide you gently into rest.
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Being Kind To Yourself ✨ Wednesday Wisdom Mini Episode
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom with Karissa explores the stories we tell ourselves, and how they can shape the way we live and feel.
Encouraging a shift in perspective, she invites you to notice those inner narratives and begin choosing ones that support rest, ease, and self-trust.
For the full meditation, search “You Deserve To Be Happy – Sleep Wave.”
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The Deepest Relaxation ✨ Sleep Meditation For Restorative Rest
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re invited to gently unwind layer by layer, discovering just how deeply you can relax.
With soothing guidance, you’ll release hidden tension in both body and mind - letting go a little more with each moment, until you naturally drift into deep, restful sleep.
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Permission to Rest Tonight ✨ Mini Meditation To Help You Unwind
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa helps you to release the pressure to keep going and gently allow yourself to stop.
With calming breath and a simple visualization, you’ll set down the weight of the day - letting go of unfinished tasks and quieting the mind, so your body can soften into rest.
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A Peaceful Easter Sunday ✨ Relaxing Bedtime Story For Sleep
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we return to a peaceful Easter Sunday in the countryside, where a family gathers to share food, laughter, and the quiet joys of spring.
As the day unfolds with simple traditions, you’re invited to settle into a warm sense of renewal, comfort, and rest.
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[Daytime Listen] Your Saturn Return with Aliza Kelly ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
In tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom, Karissa continues her conversation with astrologer Aliza Kelly, exploring the concept of the Saturn return — a pivotal period of growth, change, and realignment.
Together, they reflect on how these moments can feel like upheaval, but often guide us toward a more authentic and purposeful path.
To hear the full episode, search “Karissa On… Astrology with Aliza Kelly
Spring Rain, Rest and Renewal ✨ Sleep Meditation with Nature Sounds
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re invited to unwind with the gentle rhythm of spring rain.
As soothing imagery and calming breath guide you inward, this peaceful practice helps wash away the day, soften the mind, and ease you into deep rest and renewal.
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Let Go Of The Day ✨ Mini Meditation For Stress Relief
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa helps you gently let go of the day.
Through calming breath and a simple visualization, you’ll release lingering thoughts and place the day’s moments down one by one - allowing your body and mind to soften, settle, and prepare for restful sleep.
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The Perfect Day Off ✨ Calming Bedtime Story For Adults
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we follow a woman enjoying an unexpected day off.
As she wanders through town savoring simple pleasures and quiet moments, the gentle pace of the day invites you to relax, unwind, and drift toward sleep.
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Stop Comparing Yourself To Others ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom with Karissa reflects on the quiet pressure of comparing ourselves to others.
Through a simple, soothing perspective shift, she invites you to consider the possibility that you are exactly where you’re meant to be, helping you release comparison and rest more peacefully in the present moment.
For the full meditation, search “Letting Go of Comparison – Sleep Wave.”
You Are Safe ✨ Soothing Sleep Meditation to Ease Nighttime Anxiety
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re invited to let go of the day and reconnect with a sense of safety. Through gentle breathing and grounding awareness, this soothing practice helps calm anxious thoughts and guide you back into deep relaxation.
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The Decision Can Wait ✨ Mini Meditation For Restless Nights
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa helps you step out of late-night decision spirals.
With calming breath work and simple visualization, you’ll set your unanswered questions aside - trusting that clarity can wait until morning, and for now, you can rest.
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The Wild Garden Retreat ✨ Bedtime Story For Sleep with Karissa Vacker
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we’re following a young woman named Holly as she trades a busy week for a restful weekend in her Aunt's rural garden cabin.
With a friendly dog by her side, she settles into simple comforts - tea on the veranda, birdsong in the trees, and rain softly tapping on the roof - rediscovering the calm that comes from truly switching off.
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[Daytime Listen] Rest & Intuition with Aliza Kelly ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
In tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom, Karissa continues her conversation with astrologer Aliza Kelly - exploring the difference between anxiety and intuition.
Together, they reflect on how intuition is quiet and subtle, while anxiety is loud and spiraling - and why rest, rhythm, and a calm nervous system are essential for hearing that inner whisper.
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Let's Be Still ✨ Soothing Sleep Meditation with Body Scan
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re invited to simply be still.
Through gentle breath work and a calming body scan, this practice helps you release the day, quiet the mind, and settle into deep, natural rest.
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A Little Company For The Quiet Hours ✨ Mini Meditation For Lonely Nights
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa offers gentle company for those quiet hours that can feel a little too still.
If the silence of the night feels heavy or lonely, this short practice wraps you in a warm circle of imagined support - reminding you that you are cared for, even from afar.
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Floating Into Rest ✨ Sleep Meditation with Calming Visualization
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re invited to gently float into rest. Through calming breathwork and a soothing river visualization, this practice helps you release any stresses of the day - allowing thoughts and emotions to drift by without holding onto them.
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Learning To Trust Yourself ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom with Karissa reflects on overthinking and learning to trust yourself.
A gentle reminder that meditation can quiet the busy mind and help you rest with more ease and confidence. For the full episode, search “Trusting Yourself – Sleep Wave.”
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Stop Overthinking ✨ Sleep Meditation For Ruminating Thoughts
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’ll gently ease out of overthinking and into rest.
This calming practice will help you soften looping thoughts and settle the mind, making it easier to let go and drift into deep, restorative sleep.
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Turning Down the World ✨ A Mini Meditation to Ease Overwhelm
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa offers support for nights when the world feels too loud to rest.
Through slow breathing and a simple visualization, this short practice helps quiet overstimulated thoughts, soften the body, and turn the volume down- so you can let go of the day and ease into sleep.
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The Princess & The Runaway Bed ✨ Fairytale Bedtime Story For Sleep
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, you’ll follow a young princess on a gentle nighttime adventure when a small spell goes awry. A calm, cozy fairytale designed to quiet your mind and guide you toward restful sleep.
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[Daytime Listen] Understanding Your Sun & Moon Sign with Aliza Kelly ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
In tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom, Karissa is joined by astrologer Aliza Kelly to explore how understanding your moon sign can support deeper rest and emotional balance. This conversation looks at how astrology can help you tune into what you truly need to unwind and recover.
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Self Soothing Through The Senses ✨ Sleep Meditation For Deep Relaxation
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re guided on a gentle nature journey designed to ground the body and quiet the mind. Through soothing imagery and a slow pace, this calming practice helps you reconnect with inner stillness and drift peacefully into sleep.
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Resting Through Grief ✨ Mini Meditation For Relaxation Through Difficult Times
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa offers support for those moments when sadness or grief feels heavier at night.
When the world grows quiet and emotions surface, this short practice creates a safe space to to rest alongside your feelings, with the reminder that it’s okay to feel, and still sleep.
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Chakra Body Scan For A Healing Sleep ✨ Visualization Meditation For Deep Rest
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re guided through a calming chakra body scan, designed to relax the body and quiet the mind.
Moving slowly through each energy center with breath and awareness, this soothing practice helps release tension, restore balance, and ease you into a deep, healing rest.
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Shifting Your Mindset For The New Year ✨ Motivational Meditation For Sleep
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, you’re invited to gently reflect on the year ahead without pressure or overwhelm.
This calming practice uses imagination to explore the version of you who already feels aligned, all whilst helping you drift off to sleep.
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Tomorrow Can Wait ✨ Mini Meditation For Ruminating Thoughts At Night
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa gently helps you release the pull of tomorrow and settle into the night. When unfinished thoughts or to-do lists keep the mind busy, this short practice offers a moment to pause and breathe.
With calming breathwork and a simple visualization, you’re reminded that tomorrow can wait - tonight is for rest.
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Sleep Echoes: The Rainy Day ✨ Meditation For Getting Back To Sleep | Rewind
In tonight's sleep meditation with Karissa, we're going to dive into a "Sleep Echo" in which a carefully designed story is repeated to help you fall asleep easily. This time, we’ll be getting sleepy in a cozy apartment in London, as it rains outside.
This episode was originally released on our premium feed in 2024, but as we're away for the holidays, we're bringing it back for everybody to benefi
Overcoming Loneliness ✨ Comforting Sleep Meditation | Rewind
In tonight's sleep meditation with Karissa, we're going to be meditating on loneliness. It's a common feeling to experience, but remember- you're not alone. Wrap yourself in self-love tonight, and fall asleep in a state of peace.
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Releasing Health Anxiety ✨ Mini Meditation For Health Worries
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa offers gentle reassurance for those moments when worries about your body or health feel louder at night.
When everything is quiet, small sensations can spark anxious thoughts and make it hard to rest. This short practice invites you to pause, breathe, and reconnect with a sense of safety.
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The Midnight Gardener: Christmas On Nevis ✨ Cozy Story For Sleep
In tonight's bedtime story with Karissa, we’re going to enjoy Christmas on the sunny island of Nevis.
There’s no snow or pine trees, no hats or scarves or woolly socks- just peace, and love, and sunshine. if you're looking to warm up tonight, this cozy bedtime story is for you.
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Learning To Appreciate Your Body ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom with Karissa, invites you to soften into appreciation for your body.
After a restless night, Karissa shares a simple practice inspired by shavasana—gently thanking each part of the body to release tension, quiet anxious thoughts, and ease back into rest. For the full meditation, just search for “Appreciating Your Body – Sleep Wave.”
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Walking Through The Christmas Market ✨ Cozy Bedtime Story For Adults
In tonight's bedtime story with Karissa, we're getting cozy and festive, and there’s nothing cozier or more festive than a Christmas market at night!
We're going to visit one together to help us let go of the day and drift into a deeply peaceful sleep.
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Handling Relationship Stress ✨ Mini Meditation For Pre-Sleep Relaxation
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa offers gentle support for anyone feeling the weight of relationship stress. All relationships - romantic or platonic - can stir up emotions that make it hard to unwind.
This short practice helps you soften, breathe, and release any stressful thoughts. With grounding, compassion, and a visualization to help you feel safe and supported, Karissa guides you back
The Gift Of Sleep ✨ Sleep Meditation With Body Scan
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we’ll explore the gentle practice of receiving - softening the body, opening the palms, and allowing sleep to arrive like a quiet gift.
This simple ritual of saying “I am open to receiving” helps ease the mind as Karissa guides you into deep, nourishing rest.
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Finding Freedom From Fear ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom from Karissa looks at what happens when fear shows up - the racing thoughts, the overactive imagination, and the discomfort that can follow us into the night.
Through a personal story and soothing guidance, she offers a reminder that grounding, breath, and gentle awareness can bring us back to a feeling of safety. For the full meditation, listen to “Freedom From Fear
Feel Supported ✨ Gratitude Practice Sleep Meditation
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we're settling into a gentle gratitude practice, designed to help you feel supported.
Through a calming visualisation beneath an ancient tree, you’ll reconnect with the people who’ve shaped you and drift into rest feeling grounded and held.
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Releasing Financial Stress ✨ Mini Meditation for Money Worries
In tonight’s mini meditation, Karissa offers calm and comfort for anyone lying awake with money worries on their mind.
With gentle breathing, grounding, and a simple visualization to “store” your concerns for tomorrow, this meditation invites you to feel safe, supported, and steady again. Press play whenever nighttime anxiety feels heavy — and let your mind know it doesn’t have to solve everythi
The Midnight Gardener: Chapter Two ✨ Cozy Travel Story For Sleep
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we return to the lush Caribbean island of Nevis for Chapter Two of The Midnight Gardener. Let the warm breezes, tropical landscapes, and gentle storytelling carry you into a deep, restful sleep.
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Shifting Your Perspective ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom from Karissa is all about how quickly our inner world can shift, even in the middle of stress. Through a story from her early days in Los Angeles, she gives us a gentle reminder that while stress is a normal part of being human, pausing, asking for help, and letting yourself breathe can transform your entire perspective.
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Selena The Good Witch ✨ Fantasy Bedtime Story For Sleep
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we’re settling in for a gentle autumn tale about Selena, the good witch of Pembridge.
As the seasons shift and the air grows cooler, Selena turns her attention to her pantry and the quiet rituals that help her prepare for the months ahead. Snuggle beneath your blankets, breathe deeply, and drift into a peaceful story of warmth, wisdom, and the simple magi
Release Sleep Anxiety ✨ Mini Meditation For Insomnia
This mini meditation is here to help you with something so many of us struggle with - worrying about falling asleep. If your mind feels busy, or you’re anxious about whether rest will come, this short practice will help you let go of pressure and trust your body’s natural rhythm.
Use it anytime you find yourself overthinking bedtime, to ease your thoughts, settle your breath, and allow sleep to
The Universe That Made You ✨ Soothing Sleep Meditation
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we’re venturing beyond the stars to find deep peace and perspective. This is your invitation to feel infinite, connected, and calm - as you drift into sleep, knowing the universe lives within you.
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How To Ease Into The Future ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom from Karissa is all about the magical moment between sleep and waking - that quiet pause where anything feels possible. It’s in this sliver of time that we get to choose who we want to be and how we want to show up.
Karissa shares how bringing more awareness to this moment can gently shift our days, and even our future, toward what we truly want. To enjoy a full meditat
You Deserve To Be Happy ✨ Mood Boosting Sleep Meditation
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we’re exploring the quiet truth that happiness, like sleep, isn’t something you earn — it’s something you deserve.
Together, we’ll soften the stories we tell ourselves and open to a deeper sense of peace, presence, and permission to simply be. As Karissa guides you through this gentle meditation written by Billy, you’ll release tension, let go of self-d
Opening Up For Communication ✨ Mini Meditation For Honest Conversations
This mini meditation is here to help you prepare for something many of us find difficult - honest communication. You might want to use this before a meeting, or confrontation, before opening up to a loved one, setting your boundaries, or communicating your needs. Use this meditation to get that tricky conversation out of the way, so you can sleep easier tonight.
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Old Friends ✨ Story For Sleep with Cozy Nostalgia
In tonight’s bedtime story with Karissa, we follow the lives of three friends who meet at university and watch how their paths weave, drift, and reconnect over the years. It’s a gentle, nostalgic tale to help you unwind from the day and drift into a deep, easy sleep.
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Let Go Of Racing Thoughts ✨ Mini Meditation For Ruminating
In tonight’s mini meditation with Karissa, we’re finding peace from racing thoughts at night. When your mind feels busy and restless, this short practice will help you release the mental chatter, slow your breath, and settle gently into rest. Perfect for easing anxiety before bed and guiding you toward calm, restorative sleep.
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Deep Relaxation ✨ Sleep Meditation Body Scan
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we’re unlocking the deepest relaxation. Together, we’ll explore one of the most powerful tools for calming the mind and releasing tension - the body scan.
This gentle practice gives your busy thoughts something to focus on, guiding you back to your breath, back to your body, and back to stillness. As you follow Karissa’s voice through each part of your
Finding Balance Within Ourselves ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight’s Wednesday Wisdom from Karissa is all about finding balance — not through perfection, but through awareness. By shoring up where we’re weak and relaxing where we’re strong, we can move through life with more calm and trust. Karissa shares how practices like tapping and mindful breathing can help us reset in real time and find our center again. To explore this more deeply, just search “Fin
Your Zen Practice ✨ Guided Sleep Meditation With Breathwork
In tonight's sleep meditation with Karissa, let’s find our peace, with a Zen Buddhist meditation practice that will relax your body and mind, and prepare you for a peaceful night's sleep.
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Overcoming Social Anxiety ✨ Mini Meditation For Before An Event Or Gathering
This mini meditation is for those moments before you step out into the world - a gathering, a party, or anywhere new. If your nerves are buzzing, this gentle practice will help you ground yourself, find calm, and remember that you belong wherever you’re going.
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Sleeping In Fall ✨ Cozy Sleep Meditation For The Seasons Change
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we’ll escape into a cozy autumn scene, drifting off surrounded by the warmth and sweetness of a new season. This meditation is designed to ease the transition of change and carry you gently into deep, restful sleep all night long.
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Ground Your Energy To Beat Stress ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight's Wednesday Wisdom from Karissa is all about how we can ground our energy. By finding our centre, we can protect ourselves in those moments where frustration can creep in. So whether you're feeling stuck, or just need to let go, this one is for you. To practice a meditation on this topic, just search “Grounding Your Energy Against Stress – Sleep Wave.”
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Fresh Starts ✨ Sleep Meditation For Renewal
In tonight’s sleep meditation with Karissa, we’ll embrace the beauty of new beginnings — whether it’s a new season, a fresh school year, or simply a new breath. Snuggle in, get cozy, and allow this gentle practice to carry you into deep, restorative rest.
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Beat The Sunday Scaries ✨ 5 Minute Mini Meditation For Night-Before Worries
Tonight's mini meditation has been written to help you with that familiar night-before flutter. Whether you're feeling a tightness in your chest, or a heaviness in your thoughts.
This is a reminder that you should enjoy every minute of your weekend, and every minute of your rest. This mini meditation will show you that there’s no need to be concerned about tomorrow. You’ve got this. You always d
Grounding Your Energy For Sleep ✨ Soothing Meditation For Stress
In tonight's sleep meditation with Karissa, we are going to learn to ground ourselves, while being led into a calm sleep. Getting grounded will calm your body and your mind, opening the pathway to a wonderful night of deep sleep.
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Accessing Life's Simple Joys ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Tonight's Wednesday Wisdom from Karissa is all about how joy and sorrow can sit side by side - even in the hardest times. Karissa shares how laughter and lightness have shown up for her in moments of pain, reminding us that sometimes joy is exactly what we need to balance the scales. To practice a meditation on this topic, just search “Accessing Life’s Simple Joys – Sleep Wave.”
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Trusting Yourself ✨ Confidence Building Sleep Meditation
In tonight’s sleep meditation, we’ll take some gentle breaths together and let the mind begin to slow. As everything quiets down, you’ll discover the wisdom and trust that’s already within you, just waiting for a moment of stillness to be heard.
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Karissa On...Astrology with Aliza Kelly ✨
Tonight's episode is the beginning of our brand new series "Karissa On..." a little side series here on Sleep Wave where I get to have relaxed, thoughtful conversations with people who I find inspiring — people who help us think differently about how we live, rest, and connect with ourselves.
Today I’m joined by Aliza Kelly — astrologer, author, and host of the Horoscope Weekly podcast. You may a
Take A Gratitude Walk ✨ 5-Minute Mini Walking Meditation
This mini meditation is designed to help you have a mindful moment in your day, whether you're taking an after-work walk, or strolling around at lunchtime. You deserve to take this time for yourself, and your body.
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A Cozy Cottage In Northumberland ✨ Bedtime Stories for Adults
In tonight's Bedtime Story with Karissa, we're going to drift away to the rolling countryside of Northumberland, where a woman named Gilly once escaped to her parents’ quaint little cottage — a peaceful place, perfect for unwinding.
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Finding Joy In Hard Times ✨ Wednesday Wisdom
Today's Wednesday Wisdom from Karissa is all about how it's ok to find joy in the hard times- it may just be the moments you need it most. So notice the little things around you, and let them fill you up with a sense that everything is going to be ok- even if it doesn't feel like it right now. To practice a meditation on this topic, just search "Finding Joy In Hard Times - Sleep Wave".
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