The First Nights Alone

14 min

Tonight the flat has a different sound to it. Not louder, not quieter — only thinned, the way a room sounds when someone has just left it. Whatever hour you have come here in, you are welcome exactly as you arrived. There is nothing to fix in the next quarter of an hour.

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Maya Hart
Your storyteller
Maya Hart
Tender, reassuring, steady

Tender and reassuring, steady when things aren't, present and calm without ever overpromising.

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About this session

The First Nights Alone is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the loneliness collection, narrated by Maya Hart.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.