Walking the Long Way Home

10 min

When the house feels too quiet to face, the long way home offers somewhere for the heaviness to go. Streetlamps, passing windows and the steady rhythm of footfall make room around the loneliness without asking it to leave. You return with the same quiet waiting, but a slower breath and the knowledge that you carried yourself home.

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Maya Hart
Your storyteller
Maya Hart
Tender, reassuring, steady

Tender and reassuring, steady when things aren't — present and calm without ever overpromising.

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About this session

Walking the Long Way Home is a guided audio session from Salūs — part of the loneliness collection, narrated by Maya Hart.

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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