This is the first of a few stories I have in mind about Australia. Enjoy a top-down roadtrip down under as you explore the Great Ocean Road and spend the night in a treehouse. Let's dream away! 🎙Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michelles-sanctuary/episodes/Treehouse-Down-Under-Cozy-Bedtime-Story-e2l330t Subscribe for more videos at my other channel, Michelle's Meditation Sanctuary! www.youtube.com/@MichellesMeditationSanctuary Gifts are always accepted, for those of you who wish you show appreciation: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/34QKQX4NZM7QL?ref_=wl_share www.buymeacoffee.com/michsanctuary www.paypal.me/michellessanctuary www.venmo.com/michellehotaling
I have really been struggling with anxiety this week😢 over my health and struggling with trying to quit smoking 😢it's been terrible!! Looking forward to Listening 🎶 Sunday Thanks Michelle 😊 0:00
Tricia, I sooooo understand you and this addiction. I’ve found self-compassion very necessary for smoothing out, or extinguishing, any shame or anger over giving in to those urges to smoke (or drink). It’s a long process. Find any method(s) which serve you. Personally, whenever I light-up again, I’ll promptly limit that cigarette to a few puffs, or by 1/2, then remind myself how much I truly don’t enjoy the taste, smell, stains, etc. -just sharing.
I pray that your health improves....and may you relax and let Michelle do her work! She is Amazing! I have listened to others, could lay there for an hour until I gave up and went to sleep with the help of Michelle! Goodnight!!
@MichellesSanctuary thanks Michelle 😊 sending love ❤️ and light ✨️ your way,thanks for helping ease my mind like always,and taking the time to respond to me,that means so much to me🩷
I love waterfront drives, having done the Pacific Coast Highway too many years ago, and now various drives along the Great Lakes. This will be perfect for getting in that frame of mind as I sleep tonight. Thank you, Michelle!
I CANT WAIT TO LISTEN TO A STORY ABOUT AUSTRALIA AND KOALAS. Australia is my dream destination. Koalas are also my favorite animals. Kangaroos would be cool too. I used to dive until I got chronically ill. However I plan to dive the reef there. I had everything almost completely arranged to go for my 60th birthday. But fate screwed me yet again I got really sick with another chronic illness. I’m still going to go no matter what. I won’t be able to go alone as I had planned Either my best friend or I’ll find a group travel but I’m determined to go. It’s really the only thing on my “bucket list” PS. Great story.. Still haven’t heard the end!! Such a great visualization. Like being there. So until I can go for real I’ll use your stories to virtually be there. Please keep doing these with the ideas you have!!!
I truly look forward to hearing all the firsthand accounts when you check the reef off your bucket list. I do plan on writing about it as well at some point. So much of the fun in a trip is the imagining time- may you keep having fun envisioning yourself there. 💜
Oh my god Michelle. This is so perfect!! I got to visit Australia as a child and it was amazing. I've been dying to go back and explore it as an adult. Now I can, at least in my dreams
Your storytelling is truly captivating and beautifully crafted. Thank you for sharing such an engaging narrative. Wishing everyone a peaceful and restful night's sleep! 🌟🌙⭐
I’ve been struggling to sleep because when I lay down my mind suddenly remembers everything I need to do it buy or tell someone and it’s so intense that I end up on my phone for a couple hours. But when I catch myself I come here to these videos! They help so much. Thank you Michelle!
As someone who went through this for most of my life I completely understand! I hope you continue to catch yourself in those moments and find a story to unwind!
I’m intrigued. BTW, I want to thank you, Michelle, for bringing my awareness to the Aura app last year. I use and love it near each day. I experienced a rejuvenating meditation on gratitude by Connie Riet a few minutes ago. I’ll be listening to “Treehouse Down Under” whilst completing online responsibilities this afternoon and evening -replay at bedtime, for sure. 🕊️🙏💕
Thanks for the correction! The article I read said asphalt-- good to know if a little late in learning! Here's the link I gleaned info- heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CulturalHeritageClimateChange_CaseStudies_GOR.pdf
I can’t really give a critique of this newest story. I keep falling asleep before hearing all of it. I remember pieces like sandwiches in a fridge some waterfalls which I think fall counter clockwise because it’s Australia and some circolia effect changes polar gravitational laws or my mind tells me this is true. I hear your words your sumptuous voice weaving a story but my consciousness just leaves me. When I awaken the earbud is silent and I’m obviously not in Australia. One day I’ll listen to it and maybe hear it all. I so want to see the koala. Now I have to go remove the bald face hornet nest I reluctantly had to murder. Normally I can co exist with them but this one was right above my garage door on a flood light so chances of them getting inside were too great. These nests can get as big as a football with up to 400 angry hornets in them. Chances are I’ll fall off the ladder or a lone bug who escaped will take vengeance on me. My dog has learned a new trick. She uses the toilet to jump on bathroom vanity and eats the soap in soap dish. She’s going through a very mischievous stage beyond her normal mischievousness. Her father is from Australia wonder if she was listening to your story. I’ll have her write a comment
Would love her feedback. I imagined a dog would be a great companion for this journey if she can avoid the eucalyptus soap and not taunt the koalas. As Ike becomes more mischievous (he went from trembling and hiding behind my legs for three weeks to pumping his hips in the air amorously at a slightly older Brussels griffon). He apparently doesn’t care about the impressions he makes. But I am grateful for how small he is because I can only imagine the things he would be doing otherwise.
@@MichellesSanctuary Brussels are very grumpy looking dogs. If I were a dog I’d pump my hips at them too! Now Cosette has this behavioral thing when she wants to play which is all the time by the way where she straddles my arm with her rear legs and pushes her bum at my face turns to look at me and growls like she wants to kill me and keeps doing this to initiate play. While she does this she scratched my skin with her nails and occasionally mouths my skin with her teeth and my crepe skin and crappy functioning platelets makes me bleed do my arms look like I’ve been in a war. I thought it was some weird mating ritual so I was initially kind of honored but it’s her okay ritual. She chases butterflies rabbits and blowing leaves not as prey but as playmates. She would be happy playing with anything willing or crazy enough to play with her. We left her alone Saturday night to go out to dinner and initially she was fine for about an hour then she decided to play with a coffee table book, there was two of them one a book of dogs with beautiful pictures and stories about the dog and the other a decorating book of white and blue. That’s the one she chose to eat. Thankfully left the other alone. I screamed at her through the ring camera and even set off the alarm to disrupt her. Nope, she was serious about gnawing the book. My son eventually came here to correct her badness. He was also watching her from his condo. I’m anxiously awaiting her response to the 4th to see if she freaks out or just ignored my neighborhoods seemingly recreation of the revolutionary war. If she was in Australia I’m convinced she’d run off with a dingo or try and play with a croc or a taipan snake. After her battle with my arm she’s now laying next to me sleeping like an angel. I have two new band aids. I’ll take her for a walk soon maybe she’ll find one of the neighborhood dogs (lots if shitzu Maltese or doodle mixes all ungroomed and look alike) who can’t handle her playfulness and sometimes try and bite her- she doesn’t care keeps trying. It may Tucker her out and I can eat my lunch without her trying to jump onto table. I think she’s on the autism spectrum and has adhd but she’s so bootiful.
@@larrymarcus3176 funny enough this Brussels is named Happy-- and she definitely has the happy energy oddly paired with the grumpy face. Oh dear, I've definitely thought about that as my skin has suffered from puppy teeth scrapes and nails and I often run into women in their late 70s and early 80s with a young pup and wonder how they managed to deal with it. Your girl has far more picturesque chases than the creatures my guy chases on the sidewalk. But we already went through fireworks during the Philharmonic's concert in Central Park and he was unfazed.
@@MichellesSanctuary Did they do 1812 I love that sooo much. My last one hated loud noises panicked during fireworks or thunder even Xanax and gabapentin did nothing. This one has a fast trigger to noises or sights but usually wants interaction with it but does show fear response ti garbage trucks air brakes or large vehicles including those sit down lawn mowers every house here uses. Leaf blower drills etc make her scared. Bees foxes deer crows hawks no fear. She also doesn’t understand wind either can’t understand why pillows on deck fly around
@@larrymarcus3176 amazing how different they respond. My guy isn't a fan of sirens and will come to a full stop and lift his head and howl along in a pitch close to the ambulance sirens. I wish I could capture his wolf howl but its drowned out by the siren.
How wonderful, had my 13 year old granddaughter for the weekend, it's been lovely, now nearly my bedtime and I can relax and take this beautiful mental holiday, much love Michelle 🙏 💛
After a long enjoyable day watching my grandson skate like the wind.. and still watching my 37yr old son play soccer at the beaches. I'm so blessed 🙌 Now me time..falling sleep to your new story. I'm soo excited Michelle! Goodnight . Looking forward to sweet dreams 😴 ✨️ ❤ Thank-you
Yes, I love this story, Michelle -about like the kind I dream of, starting at Marin Co. then northward to Vancouver, on the breathtaking-all-the-way PCH! I love your describing the walk to Erskine Falls, as much as the walk along the stream and flowers in “Cabin in the Smoky Mountains.” 🕊️🙏💕
Oh Michelle all the Thank yous! This is the one I asked for and it’s even more special as I live in Victoria 🥰 I’m excited to go to sleep with this story right now and dream away! Again, thank you so, so much 😘🇦🇺☺️
Australia would love to have you 🥰 There are so,so many places I would love to visit but due to chronic pain, being a carer to my son and financial reasons it’s really difficult so your stories let me visit in my imagination 🥰
Greetings Michelle I am Australian I find things set in my own country are often more foreign than in other countries. I live in a small city called Hervey Bay Queensland Australia.
Small CIties can be boring too big to be a small friendly country town too small to be a big city. And we have no surf so we can't gentrify. All SUrf places are very upper class .
Do you enjoy living there? Having spent much of my life in NYC, I certainly can appreciate visiting all other places for a change of pace. Especially if there's water. Surf or no surf.
