Reading an Old Message You Sent

21 min

An old message can make you flinch before you have even finished the first line. Return to one with a little distance, listening for what the person you were was carrying and the quieter message beneath their words. Instead of editing the past, let that earlier self be read with the kindness they were reaching for.

← Back self compassion
Charles Holt
Your storyteller
Charles Holt
Deep, slow, spacious

Low, slow and spacious — a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.

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About this session

Reading an Old Message You Sent is a guided audio session from Salūs — part of the self compassion collection, narrated by Charles Holt.

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.

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