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Stillness in the Storms

by Steven Webb
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  • Your Hands Are Full: Why You’re Not Failing at Meditation

    October 28, 2026 · 24 min

    Why can't I stick to meditation when I know it helps? You're probably not lazy or broken. Your hands are already full, and practice shouldn't be one more box rammed into them. Support me with a coffee and join my Weekly Calm every Sunday…

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    October 11, 2026 · 18 min

    Why is everyone so tired right now? Not sleepy, world tired. Too much is changing too fast, our minds never come with an off switch, and we stay busy so we don't have to feel it. Support me with a coffee and join my Weekly Calm every…

  • Overwhelmed by the News: Caring Without Drowning

    October 4, 2026 · 14 min

    How do you care about what's happening in the world without it dragging you under? Practice first, news second. Then do one small thing and put it down. Support me with a coffee and join my Weekly Calm every Sunday: stevenwebb.uk The night…

  • We're All Terrible Meditators: The Art of Doing Nothing on Purpose

    September 20, 2026 · 17 min

    Are you bad at meditating? So is everyone. The mind wanders because that is its job. Meditation is not quieting it, it is noticing you have gone and coming back. Support me with a coffee and join my Weekly Calm every Sunday…

  • What Will I Miss? My Story for World Suicide Prevention Day

    September 10, 2026 · 18 min

    What would you miss? This episode is about suicide, my granddad's and my own, and the one question that kept me here. If you need help right now, the numbers are just below. If you need help right nowUK and Ireland: Samaritans, call 116…

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  • Gates, Not Thorns: Are Your Boundaries a Prison?

    September 6, 2026 · 19 min

    Support Steven's work. Treat him to a coffee stevenwebb.uk Are your boundaries keeping you safe, or keeping you stuck? I have never liked the word. This week a reader called Katherine gave me a better one: gates, not thorns. I have carers…

  • There Is No Steven in Here: What I Learned at the Bottom of a Swimming Pool

    August 22, 2026 · 20 min

    Who are you, really, behind all the roles? Sit properly with that question and no answer comes. That is the answer. Open me up and there is no Steven in there. In deep sleep there is no Steven either. We wake up and we come online and we…

  • If This Were My Last Podcast

    August 11, 2026 · 19 min

    If this were my last podcast, what would I want to leave you with? Let everything happen to you. No feeling is final. That is Rilke, and it is where this one started. No script, just a cup of coffee. You cannot change the present moment…

  • Happily Never After

    August 2, 2026 · 18 min

    What if the thing you keep chasing is the exact reason you cannot catch it? There is no happily ever after, and that is good news. Picture the ox with a carrot on a stick fixed above its own head. Every step forward moves the carrot…

  • Part of You Doesn't Want the Pain to Stop: Here's Why

    July 26, 2026 · 21 min

    Why does part of you not want the pain to stop? Pain is inevitable. Suffering is the second arrow, and you fire that one. The first arrow lands and it hurts. Then we load the bow ourselves. Every replay in your head, every post, every…

  • What Your Anger Is Really Saying

    June 28, 2026 · 22 min

    What is your anger actually saying? My teacher Jun Po told me he has never known an angry person who did not care. Sit with that one. Anger is the bodyguard. It steps in to put something right, to stop it happening again, to defend what…

  • The Mind That Will Not Be Quiet

    June 18, 2026 · 15 min

    Why does your mind pick 3am? You have thirty to forty thoughts a minute and you asked for none of them. The mistake is deciding the goal is a blank, silent mind. Set that as the target and the trains keep coming and you feel like you are…

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About the show

This is a podcast for anyone going through something hard. No quick fixes. No everything happens for a reason. No advice from a man who has never had a bad week. I am Steven Webb. In 1991, aged 18, I dived into a swimming pool in Truro and broke my neck. I have been paralysed from the chest down ever since. That is not the hard part of the story. It took another twenty two years, a bankruptcy, a spell homeless and a dark night at forty before I found anything that actually helped. What helped was Zen. Not the serene kind with the robes and the incense. The kind you do at three in the morning when your head will not shut up and there is nobody to ring. Every week I sit down and talk honestly about one thing. Anger, grief, pain, the mind that will not be quiet, the exhausting business of pretending you are fine. Sometimes there is an answer. Often there is just company, which turns out to be most of what people needed anyway. Around sixteen minutes an episode. Nothing to sign up for. Steven Webb is a meditation teacher, a Cornwall councillor and the former Mayor of Truro. He teaches from the mess, not from the mountaintop.