Frogs have long been a symbol of renewal and spring for me. This year they seem to have come a bit early, but they're always welcome. I love to relax and listen to them singing their love songs to one another, and am blessed to have a good sized wetland on the farm where they're happy. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

This is the second episode where I use various techniques to reduce your anxiety with special emphasis on panic attacks. The holiday season (not to mention this crazy pandemic) can really increase our stress load, so I hope that this episode will help you if you're feeling like it's all just too much at the moment. The first episode was more of a role-play with personal attention, while this one is more typical of what you might experience with a therapist, and is more technique based than care-based. 

As I'm finishing up a large order of smudge sticks from my Etsy shop, I walk you slowly through the process that I use to make them. I talk about how to select materials, make the finished product attractive and functional. Photos of the finished product are on my Instagram (@tessa_tingles_ASMR), and if you'd like to see what's currently in the Etsy shop, it's called HeartLightandWild. 

Thanks for listening, and as always feel free to send me a message with any questions or comments!

For the first ten or so minutes I slowly roll and tip the rain stick from side to side and back and forth, occasionally tapping the wood. Next up is a variety of crystal and stone beads, as well as some strung pearls, that I move, slide, and twist, making gentle crackling, popping, clicking sounds. I use some rose quartz, malachite, lapis, mookaite, and a lovely sea green stone that I don't recall the name of. The different sizes make a variety of sounds, and some are combined together.

*Volume should be pretty low for this one*

Working my way through rainy season projects, I start processing my dried mullein leaves. They're very crunchy and make a crackling sound, and I do some whispering rambles where I talk about mullein and what I'm using it for. The volume should really be low enough that the whispering is unintelligible.

I hope you enjoy, thanks for listening!

I thought I'd try doing a bit of sketching this time and focus on those scratching sounds of the pencil on paper. I drew a Weeping Willow tree, so most of the lines are fairly long, rather than a shorter more staccato cadence from smaller strokes. There's some sounds of paper moving as well, but it's largely just the sounds of pencil on paper. 

Thanks so much for listening!!

In this episode, I'm back to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, this time read more slowly and softly. 

I'm only covering chapter 16, which is relatively long. This reading being to help you drift off to sleep more easily is read at a slower pace and more softly whispered than I usually do, but is still mostly intelligible. 

I hope you enjoy, thanks for listening and have a lovely night!

This year I grew quite a few peppers, hoping to have enough to fill my freezer this winter, and while I didn't get as many as I would have liked, I did get a pretty solid wheelbarrow full of them. In this episode, I'm slicing, dicing and bagging some of my poblanos for the freezer.

Thanks so much for listening, I hope you enjoy!

Loving and compassionate ASMR whispered care during your panic attack or intense anxiety. We'll sit by the fire, I'll do a little bit of pampering, and walk you through some simple breathing exercises that will help you progressively relax. No pressure, no judgement, and trauma informed.

You're in a safe space to process your feelings as they come up and breathe them out and let them go. We all get anxiety and go through rough patches, get overwhelmed and need a soft place to land when it becomes too much. 

There is some physical touch involved in this episode, but I will be doing one in the future for situations where you might not be ready for any physical contact (real or imagined) and more focused on post-traumatic anxiety. 

If there's anything you'd like to request for a future anxiety management or other mental health concerns please let me know.  I'm passionate about mental health as much as health in general, and am planning to do many versions of this. It's hard to remember what to do when you're in the midst of an anxiety episode, even when you know all the skills and strategies normally. I'm happy to help put something together based on your recommendations of what works for you!

In this episode, I'm slowly and softly removing the petals of my roses from their base and softly dropping them onto the table. They are then collected and dropped into a bowl before I take them to be spread out to dry. This time of year in the soggy Pacific Northwest the roses that are still blooming aren't usually able to open well, and do something called "balling" which means they sort of glue themselves shut. Not ideal for looking at, but they still make a great tea, which I love to have when cold and dreary weather sets in. I'll give these a few days to slowly dry out and then pop them into the oven for a few minutes on its lowest setting to crisp up before storage.

This is ideal for falling asleep to as almost a background noise, but with enough triggers to hopefully get you into the bliss state as well. There's light popping, plopping, swishing, plinging, and no talking. 

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoy!