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Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief

Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief

Books at Bedtime By Calming Anxiety - The Softening of Miss Cynthia - By Lucy M Montgomery

Oct 20, 2026 · 18m

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The Softening of Miss Cynthia by L. M. Montgomery — A Heartwarming Bedtime Story for Sleep & Insomnia | Books at Bedtime Settle in and let this tender, heartwarming short story by L. M. Montgomery, the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables, ease you gently towards sleep. The Softening of Miss Cynthia is a quiet tale of a hardened heart, a lonely orphan boy and the slow return of kindness, read softly and slowly as a bedtime story for adults who want to wind down, ease insomnia and drift into deep, restful sleep. Miss Cynthia lives alone in her big, spotless house, keeping neither man nor maid, and she likes it that way. Then one evening an express wagon pulls into her yard and a thin…