The Calm Christmas Podcast with Beth Kempton

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 9 ✨Joy to the World✨

***Please note the silence in today’s episode is intentional to accommodate a series of journalling questions!*** Happy new year friends! The final episode of each seaso

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 8 ✨The Deer's Cry✨

Friends, I hope you had a lovely, peaceful holiday, or indeed, whatever kind of Christmas you had hoped for, and if you didn’t, well it’s done now, and you enjoy a quiet

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 7 ✨Driving Home for Christmas✨

There is a moment of silence that occurs every year somewhere between the dawn of Christmas Eve and the setting of the sun on Christmas Day itself. A moment we all have e

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 6 ✨Midwinter Light✨

Winter can be a difficult time for any of us grieving, or experiencing feelings of sadness or loneliness. And yet there is always beauty to be found in amongst it all. Th

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 5 ✨And Winter Came✨

One of the most gorgeous carols in the world reminds us of how bleak midwinter can be, and yet how there is beauty and even comfort in it. This episode is all about takin

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 4 ✨On This Winter's Night✨

In our winter writing episode this week we are exploring the poetry of solitude and the solace of poetry. I hope you will listen somewhere quiet this week, notebook in ha

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 3 ✨Holly, Ivy and Evergreen✨

All we really need to make our homes cosy in winter, and to make any seasonal gathering special, is a little bit of care and attention, some light, some kindness, perhaps

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 2 ✨The Christmas Present✨

In the old days, Christmas was much more about gathering and feasting after a long year than about gifts given and received, but in modern life Christmas shopping has bec

🎄🎧Season 5 Episode 1 ✨Do You Hear What I Hear?✨

The UK’s #1 favourite Christmas podcast is back for a fifth season of cosiness and calm, hosted by bestselling British author Beth Kempton. Here in Episode ‘Do You Hear W

🎄🎧Season 5 Trailer ✨Winterlude✨

Welcome back friends! This is the trailer for Season 5 of The Calm Christmas Podcast, the UK’s favourite festive podcast hosted by me, author Beth Kempton. Have a listen

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 9 ✨First Light✨

✨ Friends, we are here at the threshold of the year, with our final episode of Season 4 of the Calm Christmas Podcast. What an absolute joy it has been to travel through

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 8 ✨Winter Wonderland✨

✨ This quiet time between the bookends of the festive season – a time I call the Hush - is a beautiful opportunity to slow down and reflect. January will be here before w

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 7 ✨Let it Snow✨

✨As Christmas Eve approaches, let’s pause a moment, sense the hovering magic, and rest in the beauty of the world. This episode is, essentially, me sending you a Christma

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 6 ✨Ancient Embers✨

✨ This is the episode where sadness is honoured, our loved ones are remembered, and we allow all the feelings, however they might arise. May it be a comfort to you in the

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 5 ✨Sleigh Ride✨

✨Friends, we are just a couple of weeks out from Christmas now. The festive feels are all around… This episode is all about seeking delight and tiny flickers of magic in

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 4 ✨Christmas Lights✨

Friends, December is upon us, which means meterological winter has arrived here in the northern hemisphere. This episode, Season 4 Episode 4 ‘Christmas Lights’, is all ab

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 3 ✨Home for the Holidays✨

Happy Thanksgiving if you are celebrating, and may it be a day of counting our blessings, for all of us, wherever we live and wherever we are from. This episode - Season

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 2 ✨Give Love This Year✨

This week’s episode is called Give Love This Year, gratitude and gifting, and I'm sending it out to you from my kitchen table, which is currently covered in wrapping pape

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 1 ✨Hear the Bells✨

Here in Episode 1 Hear the Bells, we begin this new season of the Calm Christmas Podcast by the sea, listening to the sound of the waves and contemplating what it really

🎄🎧Season 4 Trailer: ✨Such a Simple Thing✨

Welcome back friends! This is the trailer for the new season of Calm Christmas, the UK’s favourite festive podcast. Today I have a simple yet profound question for you to