Catching Your Reflection Unprepared

18 min

A quiet practice for the moment a window, phone screen, or mirror catches your face before you are ready and the old verdict arrives first. It slows the instant between seeing and judging, separating fact from habit without forcing approval. The aim is not to love the reflection, but to stop prosecuting it.

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Marco Vella
Your storyteller
Marco Vella
Grounded, even, steady

Grounded and even, the same calm weight on every line, present without pushing, steady when the moment isn't.

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About this session

Catching Your Reflection Unprepared is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the self compassion collection, narrated by Marco Vella.

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.