Stop Trying. Start Being. Lessons from Jane Bennet on Grace, Stillness, and Self-Possession
Channeling Calm
✨ What if peace isn’t something to chase — but something to remember? In this episode of Channeling Calm, we explore the shift from striving to stillness. Through reflections on control, over-efforting, and the energetic resistance that comes with trying too hard, we turn inward toward a softer, steadier way. Inspired by Jane Bennet of Pride and Prejudice, and gentle reminders from @diaryoflaurel and @sonnet_skin, we explore what it means to embody quiet confidence, graceful boundaries, and calm strength. The episode closes with a 15-minute guided meditation to help you release the...
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Guided Meditation: "Who Holds Your Time?"
Channeling Calm
Guided Meditation: "Who Holds Your Time? In this heartfelt episode of Channeling Calm, I reflect on the sacred power of community and the importance of choosing relationships that truly nourish the soul. Inspired by a recent trip to Salem with dear soul sisters—whom I met at a retreat in Ireland—I share how meaningful connections are born from intentional spaces. This episode includes a gentle guided meditation to help you explore who and how you want to spend your time. Through visualization, you’ll step into a soul circle and reflect on the people who support your growth, peace,...
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🎙️"Releasing What No Longer Serves: A Guided Visualization"
Channeling Calm
Release the habits, patterns, and stories that no longer serve your highest self. Whether it’s alcohol or another coping mechanism that once offered comfort, this episode is an invitation to honor what was, while stepping toward what can be. Through breath, presence, and sacred imagery, you’ll be guided into a quiet inner temple where clarity is restored and compassion returns. This is not about force—it’s about soft unraveling, tender witnessing, and remembering who you are beneath the noise. ✨ In this episode, I also share inspiration from @garzchan, whose words and...
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Jane Austen Meets The Mystical
Channeling Calm
In this episode, I share my personal journey of merging beauty and the mystical—where the elegance of Jane Austen’s world meets the sacred rhythms of modern-day ceremony. From romantic rituals to soulful stillness, this is an exploration of living with intention, grace, and a touch of enchantment. Love, Meg
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Channeling The Movie Of Your Future Life
Channeling Calm
In this episode, you are the director of your future life. With the assistance of a special guide, you utilize your imagination and creativity to watch, feel, hear, and craft the truest version of you. The most whole, beautiful and loved parts of you. The song guiding us within this episode is Diamond Dawn Ascension by Soulstar Sound Sanctuary. To download the full track, XO Meg Read More Enjoy, Meg
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Channeling Calm
Channeling Calm
Today I share a guided journey that is the perfect escape to calm. If you are experiencing anxiety, overwhelm, or just want to rest this... is for you. I am in the midst of creating more episodes that combine stories and guided meditative journeys. If there is something you would like to channel into your life, reach out to me with desired topics. The song guiding us within this episode is Daughters of the Earth Sister of the Stars by Soulstar Sound Sanctuary. To download the full track, XO Meg
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100 Days Of Hygge
Channeling Calm
Today things go a step further from the last episode on how Hygge can help you achieve more contentment. Feeling inspired after recording that episode, I have embarked on a 100 day challenge for myself where each day I bring in different principles of Hygge. As a recap here are the ten principles: Atmosphere Presence Pleasure Equality Gratitude Harmony Comfort Truce Togetherness Shelter I referenced a favorite book of mine, and encourage you to read it! It's been an interesting two days and already I can feel that this way of living goes beyond cozy socks and tea. Join me this winter for...
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How Hygge Can Help You Feel More Contentment
Channeling Calm
In today's episode, I share the 10 principles of Hygge and how it can create more calm and contentment in your life. I've incorporated the concept of Hygge into my daily life and it's been a delight to see how much beauty and love reside in the simple pleasures of life! Keep it sacred, Meg PS. If you liked today's episode, please share with someone you think would enjoy it as well. Music credit goes to
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Finding Your Sacred Space
Channeling Calm
In today's episode, Meg talks more about Sacred Spaces and how they have the ability to heal emotional suffering as well and inspire personal growth. Meg PS. If you liked today's episode, please share with someone you think would enjoy it as well. Music credit goes to
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The Suite Life At Home
Channeling Calm
Today's episode inspires you to take the best parts of hotel living and bring them into your living space. Creating a sensory journey within your environment lifts your spirits and creates a sanctuary within the walls you reside in. A home's signature scent, vintage china, music and so on will create a sacredness to your space. Speaking of scents, here is the link for Sweet Grace which I reference in the episode. Keep it sacred, Meg PS. If you liked today's episode, please share with someone you think would enjoy it as well. Music credit goes to
info_outlineHow can I even express the excitement that was bubbling in my heart and mind before interviewing Rebecca? Not once… But twice! You’ll have to listen for the total snafu that happened on my end the first time we recorded. Definitely a lesson of self-forgiveness on my part.
This episode is one of my favorites because it didn’t feel like an interview but felt like a zoom call with a really fun and fabulous girlfriend!
Once you listen to the episode, you will see why I find Rebecca so inspiring. I was introduced to her on Instagram and simply fell in love with the chic way she lives, works, dresses, travels, etc… and especially how she makes alcohol-free living look so beautiful.
Highlights of today’s episode
1. Getting inspired by experimenting with delightful mocktails.
2. The magical way life looks and feels when going alcohol-free.
3. Why living AF allows you to taste the food, dream the dreams and wake up feeling fabulous.
Books referenced:
Unto This Last by Rebecca Lipkin
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray
Rebecca's Bio:
Rebecca is the author of Unto This Last - the first biographical novel dedicated to the Victorian art critic, social commentator and philanthropist, John Ruskin.
Having developed a passion for Victorian art and literature from a young age, Rebecca first discovered John Ruskin through E.M. Forster’s novel, A Room with a View, and later joined the Ruskin Society at the age of seventeen to learn more about Ruskin’s work. Rebecca says, “Most accounts of John Ruskin’s complex personal life focus on his brief marriage to Effie Gray, but his seventeen-year relationship with his young Irish student Rose La Touche was of much greater importance; theirs is captivating and tragic story of two people whose loving friendship transcended boundaries and conventions to the very end.”
London, 1858. Passionate, contradictory, and fiercely loyal to his friends, John Ruskin is an eccentric genius, famed across Britain for his writings on art and philosophy. Haunted by a scandalous past and determined never to love again, the 39-year-old Ruskin shuns polite society in favour of a quiet existence at Denmark Hill, the home he shares with his domineering parents. Reluctantly accepting a request by an Irish aristocrat to tutor her daughters in art, Ruskin becomes infatuated with his enigmatic student, Rose La Touche, an obsession with profound consequences that will change the course of his life and work.
Written in a style recalling Victorian literature and spanning a period of almost 20 years, the story poses questions about the nature of love, the boundaries of parenthood and compatibility in marriage. Unto This Last is a man behind the genius portrait of Ruskin’s tormented psyche and reveals a complex and misunderstood soul, longing for a life just out of reach.
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See you next week.
Love,
Meg