Sitting With the Empty Chair

14 min

Someone is missing from a room that still expects two, a cold side of the bed, a coat on its hook, a joke with no one left to hear it. This practice sits beside that absence without rushing to fix or explain it, drawing on research showing the brain maps a broken bond more like a phantom limb than a healed wound. A session for staying present with grief exactly as large as it actually is.

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Becky Lane
Your storyteller
Becky Lane
Soft, warm, unhurried

Warm and clear, with an unhurried steadiness, a voice that settles a busy mind without ever rushing it.

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About this session

Sitting With the Empty Chair is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the loneliness collection, narrated by Becky Lane.

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.