Help Accessing Stin Hansen’s Meditation Station and Alternatives
January 27, 2025 1:18 PM Subscribe
Hi MetaFilter,
I’m hoping someone can help me reconnect with Stin Hansen’s amazing meditations and affirmations. I’ve run into a few issues and have a couple of questions:
Are there any archives of her podcast? I know there were over 100 episodes, but I can only find a small selection on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. I really loved her content and wish I could find the full catalog.
Is there a way to log in online to iTunes? I originally downloaded many of Stin Hansen’s episodes, but I no longer have the laptop where they were stored. I also know her website, My Thought Coach, seems to be defunct, and the meditations I want there are locked. I tried emailing their support email but got an error message.
I’m particularly looking for her “Real Talk” sessions. These were longer-form episodes where she talked about anxiety, ambivalence, and similar topics. They were so relatable, down-to-earth, and incredibly helpful. Unfortunately, I’ve only been able to find 4 of these sessions.
Are there similar meditation resources you’d recommend? Stin Hansen’s style—grounded, personal, and practical—was perfect for me. Her affirmations and guided meditations really resonated with me, and I’d love to find something comparable if her episodes aren’t accessible anymore.
If anyone has advice on how to find more of her work, tips for accessing my old downloads via iTunes, or suggestions for similar meditation resources, I’d be so grateful!
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
Is there a way to log in online to iTunes? I originally downloaded many of Stin Hansen’s episodes, but I no longer have the laptop where they were stored. I also know her website, My Thought Coach, seems to be defunct, and the meditations I want there are locked. I tried emailing their support email but got an error message.
I’m particularly looking for her “Real Talk” sessions. These were longer-form episodes where she talked about anxiety, ambivalence, and similar topics. They were so relatable, down-to-earth, and incredibly helpful. Unfortunately, I’ve only been able to find 4 of these sessions.
Are there similar meditation resources you’d recommend? Stin Hansen’s style—grounded, personal, and practical—was perfect for me. Her affirmations and guided meditations really resonated with me, and I’d love to find something comparable if her episodes aren’t accessible anymore.
If anyone has advice on how to find more of her work, tips for accessing my old downloads via iTunes, or suggestions for similar meditation resources, I’d be so grateful!
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
Looks like I got confused with the name up there- oops! Though there is the semi-hidden former podcast!
posted by maya at 2:16 PM on January 27
posted by maya at 2:16 PM on January 27
Response by poster: thank you! this one has a bunch of the ones I want, but i cannot open them.
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/my-thought-coach-172297/episodes/recent
posted by Boyd at 2:18 PM on January 27 [1 favorite]
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/my-thought-coach-172297/episodes/recent
posted by Boyd at 2:18 PM on January 27 [1 favorite]
Are there similar meditation resources you’d recommend? Stin Hansen’s style—grounded, personal, and practical
alan watts?
posted by HearHere at 2:24 PM on January 27
alan watts?
posted by HearHere at 2:24 PM on January 27
Is there a way to log in online to iTunes? I originally downloaded many of Stin Hansen’s episodes
Just to jump in about this particular part of your question—no, this isn’t the way iTunes worked with regard to podcasts. Your podcast history—a big list of podcasts you subscribed to, which episodes you marked played, etc—is stored in your Apple account so it syncs between devices but the MP3 files themselves would have been downloaded locally onto that old computer and don’t get synced anyplace else. If a podcast creator deletes them from their web host, Apple (or Spotify, or Podchaser, or iHeart, or whatever) doesn’t keep an additional cache of the old files.
The Podchaser link you posted operates just like the way Apple’s would have—it’s like a big text file with all the episode names and links to wherever Hansen used to store them. But since the creator deleted the MP3s, they just aren’t available to play.
Sometimes you can find abandoned podcasts on archive.org/Reddit/mega/some random bittorrent tracker if someone decided to save the original MP3s or something.
After one too many of my favorite podcasts disappeared from the internet, I started archiving them myself with podcast-dl.
posted by bcwinters at 2:28 PM on January 27 [1 favorite]
Just to jump in about this particular part of your question—no, this isn’t the way iTunes worked with regard to podcasts. Your podcast history—a big list of podcasts you subscribed to, which episodes you marked played, etc—is stored in your Apple account so it syncs between devices but the MP3 files themselves would have been downloaded locally onto that old computer and don’t get synced anyplace else. If a podcast creator deletes them from their web host, Apple (or Spotify, or Podchaser, or iHeart, or whatever) doesn’t keep an additional cache of the old files.
The Podchaser link you posted operates just like the way Apple’s would have—it’s like a big text file with all the episode names and links to wherever Hansen used to store them. But since the creator deleted the MP3s, they just aren’t available to play.
Sometimes you can find abandoned podcasts on archive.org/Reddit/mega/some random bittorrent tracker if someone decided to save the original MP3s or something.
After one too many of my favorite podcasts disappeared from the internet, I started archiving them myself with podcast-dl.
posted by bcwinters at 2:28 PM on January 27 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: that is helpful, thank you! WOW!I just learned about the way back machine, I can 'see' all the old episodes, just can't listen to them.
posted by Boyd at 2:54 PM on January 27 [1 favorite]
posted by Boyd at 2:54 PM on January 27 [1 favorite]
Here's an RSS link for the 33 episodes of "My Thought Coach." Oldest episode is from April 2009, and I was able to download it.
https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/2147490290/feed
Here's "Meditation Station" rss with links going back to summer 2018 (I checked and the oldest episode is available for download)
https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/2147490293/feed
If you're using Apple Podcasts on iPhone/iPad, select Library from the menu at the bottom of the screen, then Shows, and then the ... menu button in the upper right. Select "Follow a show by URL" and drop this link into that.
If you're using another podcast app, you want to look for a place to add podcast feeds by URL, or add an RSS link. Then use the above links.
On the topic of archiving, there's also the multi-platform "Gpodder" app which I like, though I wish it was more customizable, and there are several options that run in Docker if you know what that means; I use Podfetch in Docker.
posted by Sunburnt at 6:55 PM on January 27 [3 favorites]
https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/2147490290/feed
Here's "Meditation Station" rss with links going back to summer 2018 (I checked and the oldest episode is available for download)
https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/2147490293/feed
If you're using Apple Podcasts on iPhone/iPad, select Library from the menu at the bottom of the screen, then Shows, and then the ... menu button in the upper right. Select "Follow a show by URL" and drop this link into that.
If you're using another podcast app, you want to look for a place to add podcast feeds by URL, or add an RSS link. Then use the above links.
On the topic of archiving, there's also the multi-platform "Gpodder" app which I like, though I wish it was more customizable, and there are several options that run in Docker if you know what that means; I use Podfetch in Docker.
posted by Sunburnt at 6:55 PM on January 27 [3 favorites]
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