Waiting Room Without a Visitor

21 min

Visiting hour begins with two cups of tea, two chairs and footsteps that keep passing your door. As hope rises and settles with every sound in the corridor, the empty chair becomes less a verdict than simply a chair. A quiet reckoning with comparison, absence and the dignity of staying present when the person you expected does not come.

← Back loneliness
Saoirse Quinn
Your storyteller
Saoirse Quinn
Soft, spacious, calm

Soft and spacious, with room between every line, lets a busy mind settle in its own time, never pushed.

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About this session

Waiting Room Without a Visitor is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the loneliness collection, narrated by Saoirse Quinn.

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.