Best Friend Voice
The harsh inner commentary that follows small mistakes is held up beside the voice you would instinctively offer someone you love. This is a grounded practice in borrowing that same patience for yourself: clear-eyed about what happened, but without contempt, so a single mistake can stop pretending to be the whole story.

Warm and unhurried, with a low steady ease, the slow exhale at the end of a long day.
About this session
Best Friend Voice is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the CBT collection, narrated by Eleanor Vance.
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.