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The Clearing with Katherine May — 100 episodes
Kathryn Nicolai’s mysterious houses of Lake Michigan
Sarah Wilson’s nomadic, desert dream
Barbara Carrellas’ enchanted theatre
Pierre Novellie’s Big Book of Hands
Caitlin Moran’s ‘greatest building humans have ever come up with’
EJoseph Coelho’s art of pottering and rummaging
Elise Loehnen’s radical candour therapist witch
Introducing Season Three
Anna Brones’ Scandinavian saltwater idyll
Alice Vincent’s joyful soundscape of human togetherness
Joycelyn Longdon on imagining an abundant future
Yasmin Khan’s warm seas and verdant greens
Kate Bowler’s Bridge of Absurdity
Jeffrey Boakye’s city path to peace
Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane ‘dream of nest’
Season Two Trailer
Carissa Potter’s hot springs artist retreat
Elissa Altman on the beauty of impermanence
Jen Hatmaker’s escape from the hate lane
Daisy Buchanan’s Swiss mountain glamour
Poorna Bell’s New Zealand vista
Emma Gannon’s year of desert rest
Mike Sowden’s island of curiosity
Season One Interlude
Ece Temelkuran’s landscape of belonging
Kaitlin Curtice’s sanctuary of the subconscious
Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan on the magic of communing with every living thing
Melissa Hemsley’s calm chaos
Sam Baker on the challenges of letting go
Andy J. Pizza’s magical, moving ADHD landscape
Oliver Burkeman’s art of the non-retreat
Laura Pashby's lighthouse at the end of the world
Cariad Lloyd’s mossy, mythical retreat
Introducing The Clearing
Sarah Moss on memory and meaning-making
Exploring Hilary Mantel's memoir with Jillian Hess
Kate Fox on the potential and power of poetry
Oliver Burkeman on mortality, acceptance and imperfectionism
Lucy Jones on matrescence, maternal myths and transformation
Daniel Tammet on real autistic lives
Tom Newlands on writing neurodivergence with a light touch
Samantha Irby on being a person
Camille T. Dungy on unearthing histories
Kaitlin Curtice on resisting with integrity
Erica Berry on the meaning of wolves
Dacher Keltner on awe, humility and purpose
Marjolijn van Heemstra on the overview effect
Amy Jeffs on ancient stories and new understandings
Báyò Akómoláfé on fugitive ideas
Kerri ní Dochartaigh on the mystical everyday
Morgan Harper Nichols on art and perception
Pico Iyer on the wisdom of travellers
Bonus episode: Katherine May on burnout and why we all need a little more wonder in our lives
Ece Temelkuran on the politics of emotion
Emma Gannon on understanding, not agreeing
Jay Griffiths on the ecology of connection
Lama Rod Owens on necessary change
Simran Jeet Singh on Radical Interconnectedness
Priya Parker on gathering well
Susan Cain on the bittersweet & introducing How We Live Now
Raynor Winn on losing everything and finding home
Leah Hazard on changing career after having her first child
Remona Aly on breaking an engagement, and the transformative force of grief
Emma Dabiri on history and belonging
Saima Mir on marriage, dreams and late flourishing
Ross Gay on delight
EAja Barber on getting dressed
Joanne Limburg on reclaiming weird
Cole Arthur Riley on "We did good"
Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body
Meghan O' Rourke on the invisible kingdom of chronic illness
Sara Tasker on hyperfocus, exhaustion and finding the new normal
Gemma Cairney on conducting energy with balance and motion
Aimee Nezhukumatathil on nurturing wonder through nature
Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland
Maggie Smith on the mutual reflection of poetry
Cheryl Strayed on walking through the wilderness
Jennifer Pastiloff on the power of 'I Got You'
Jackee Holder on the good things in life
Michelle Adams on how life can change in an instant
Angela Barnes on the continual winter of Persistent Depressive Disorder
Josie George on the joy of small things
Georgina Lawton on growing up Black in a white family
Tanya Shadrick on learning that life is short
Zeba Talkhani on surviving online abuse
Sara Ryan on grief, justice and righteous anger
Marlee Grace on journeying to the center
Nicola Slawson on being alone in Berlin
Michele Harper on the calling to work in ER
Kerri Ni Dochartaigh on healing the trauma of The Troubles
Sophia Blackwell on a lost time between two loves
Remona Aly on breaking an engagement and the transformative force of grief
Raynor Winn on losing everything and finding home
Huma Qureshi on the pregnancy that diverted her writing dreams
Jini Reddy on bereavement and finding a way through life
Rebecca Armstrong on giving up alcohol
Catherine Cho on postpartum psychosis
Leah Hazard on changing career after having her first child
Penny Wincer on being a carer twice over
Trailer: The Wintering Sessions with Katherine May