Podcast
Rest: Sleepy Bedtime Stories
Hosted by Jessika Gössl · EN
Rest is a bedtime story podcast for adults, designed to help you drift off to sleep with calming narration.
Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular sleep narrator Jessika Gössl as she reads bedtime stories that will gently guide you into a deep, restful sleep.
Each episode is crafted to ease you into relaxation, making bedtime a tranquil and comforting experience. If you're searching for the perfect bedtime story to quiet your mind, you've come to the right place.
Whether you're trying to escape daily stresses, calm your thoughts, or find a peaceful companion for the night, join popular sleep narrator Jessika Gössl as she reads bedtime stories that will gently guide you into a deep, restful sleep.
Each episode is crafted to ease you into relaxation, making bedtime a tranquil and comforting experience. If you're searching for the perfect bedtime story to quiet your mind, you've come to the right place.
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The Forgotten Photograph 📷🌙 - A Bedtime Story for Grown-Ups
2w ago00:24:20Tap to summarizeOn 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 Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/cloudetteLicense code: GIQGAW30SW4NKXBI
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Summer's Days at the Lemonade Stand 🍋 - Bedtime Story for Grown-Ups
3w ago00:33:51Tap to summarizeIn 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 Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/cloudetteLicense code: QDTKOA49TZFGDWHB
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Alice in Wonderland — 'Down the Rabbit-Hole' Bedtime Story for Grown Ups 🐇🌙
4w ago00:23:16Tap to summarizeTonight, 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 UppbeatMusic from Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/presentLicense code: ESWJIPUM3JUY4YLQ
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When the Fair Came to Shrewsbury on a Tudor Morning 🏰🌙 - A Bedtime Story for Grown-Ups
May 2600:29:16Tap to summarizeIt is a summer morning in 1530, and the fair has come to Shrewsbury 🏰 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 Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/still-centerLicense code: NSWMHWI9IHSYGQQP
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The Wolf's Tale: A Little Red Riding Hood Story 🐺🌙
May 1900:25:51Tap to summarizeYou 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 Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/boundlessLicense code: YAZQVYDTVAJI1GOG
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The Lullaby of Dreams 🎶😴 - A Peaceful Bedtime Story for Grownups
May 1200:28:40Tap to summarizeTonight, 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 Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/roseLicense code: IAZCKRYDDNA4TAZL
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The Atlas of Dreams 🗺️ - A Magical Bedtime Story for Adults
May 500:31:01Tap to summarizeTonight, 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 Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/roseLicense code: CFSHDAI8LHFKMNPC
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Heidi — Chapter 5: Two Visits and What Came of Them (A Cozy Bedtime Story for Adults)
Apr 2800:28:50Tap to summarizeSpring has come to Heidi's mountain — but so has an unwelcome visitor ⛰️🐐 In tonight's chapter, the world below the mountain comes knocking, and everything is about to change.Each month I read a chapter of Johanna Spyri's beloved classic "Heidi". A classic story of love, nature and belonging set in the Swiss Alps. Follow along and enjoy the journey one chapter at a time.Follow for NEW Bedtime Stories every Tuesday at 6pm (GMT) 💤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 (This is the place to help me decide what stories to read next!)Music from Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/ambient-lullLicense code: 1P6UWZ6INYUZYQJZ
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A Gentle Morning in a Lavender Field 🪻- Slow & Dreamy Bedtime Story for Grown-Ups
Apr 2100:23:51Tap to summarizeTonight, I'm taking you to the lavender fields of Provence 🪻🌿A young woman named Elise wakes early at her grandmother's farmhouse in the south of France and steps outside into the most peaceful morning imaginable. Long rows of lavender stretching into the mist, the hum of bees arriving with the warmth, an orange cat appearing to sit beside her on a weathered old bench.Nothing is asked of her here, and nothing is asked of you either.Narrated by Jessika Gössl🎙️Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one 🌙Have you ever been somewhere that made time feel completely different? Drop a 💜 on this episode - I'd love to know where it was.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 Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/still-centerLicense code: QIC3VEZ39CMTIE2T
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A Lazy Day at the Farmers Market 🌻✨ - Bedtime Story for Grown Ups
Apr 1400:37:31Tap to summarizeIn tonight’s bedtime story, we spend the laziest, most golden morning at a farmers market in Melbourne, Australia with Leo and his grandfather — pausing to smell spices, taste wild raspberries, watch cheese being made and collect small treasures along the way.🌻🎙️ Follow Rest so there's always a story waiting when you need one 🌙 Did you have a grandparent who took you somewhere special 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 Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/tranquilium/still-centerLicense code: AQORNPESLYRO4THP
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