Your body has been bracing. Not because something is wrong with you — because it learned to protect you.

Low, slow and spacious — a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.
Softening the Grip is a guided audio session from Salūs Rooms — part of the anxiety collection, narrated by Charles Holt.
Salūs Rooms is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS, Android and web — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial.