🎄🎧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 the winter with you again this year. Thank you. I hope this episode sends you into the new year with hope and anticipation for many good things ahead.

Episode 9 includes:

* ✨Space for dreaming, and peeking through doorways

* ✨An invitation to begin the new year with a deep breath, open heart and fresh eyes

* ✨Talk of Twelfth Night

* ✨Moonpennies, brimstone butterflies and the Wolf Moon of January

* ✨The simplest of simple comforting recipes

* ✨A series of questions for contemplating legacy

With inspiration from Laura Pashby (Small Stories with Laura Pashby), the Tavistock Local History Association, Down Like Silver, The Simple Things Magazine, Bex Partridge, Lia Leendertz (Lia’s Living Almanac), Emily Silva, Joey Hulin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

I hope to see you for Season 5 in November 2025. In the meantime, you might enjoy my year-round private writing membership SoulCircle for weekly inspiration throughout the year. You can find out more about it here, and join here (choose ‘Monthly’ to try it out or ‘Annual’ to get two months free.

If you have enjoyed Season 4 of the Calm Christmas Podcast, I would be so grateful if you could leave a rating/review on Apple Podcasts here or Spotify here. And be sure to subscribe so you get notified when the podcast is back.

With so much love for the year ahead,Beth Xx

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Links

* A brief history of Twelfth Night by the Tavistock Local History Association

* First Light by Down Like Silver

* My Substack essay ‘I did an oracle card reading for us, for the year ahead. This is what it said.’

* The Simple Things Magazine January 2021

* Bex Partridge @botanical_tales on Instagram

* Link to join my private writing community SoulCircle (choose Monthly to try it out or Annual to get two months free

* To be notified about details of my upcoming free mini class Write for Love Write for Money, all about the nuts and bolts of Substack, be sure to subscribe to my Substack at bethkempton.substack.com.

* Free Calm Christmas Planner (by me!)

Referenced books + recommendations

* Chasing Fog by Laura Pashby (Simon & Schuster) p.217

* The Almanac 2018 by Lia Leendertz (Gaia) p.2

* Sunrise Gratitude by Emily Silva (Rock Point) p.7

* Kokoro: Japanese wisdom for a life well lived by Beth Kempton (Piatkus) p.185

* Ring Out Wild Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the Scottish Poetry Library website

Ingredients for this week’s recipe

* Jacket potatoes

* Butter

* Sea salt + pepper

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