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All Episodes

The Clearing with Katherine May — 87 episodes

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Jeffrey Boakye’s city path to peace

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Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane ‘dream of nest’

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Season Two Trailer

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Carissa Potter’s hot springs artist retreat

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Elissa Altman on the beauty of impermanence

6

Jen Hatmaker’s escape from the hate lane

7

Daisy Buchanan’s Swiss mountain glamour

8

Poorna Bell’s New Zealand vista

9

Emma Gannon’s year of desert rest

10

Mike Sowden’s island of curiosity

11

Season One Interlude

12

Ece Temelkuran’s landscape of belonging

13

Kaitlin Curtice’s sanctuary of the subconscious

14

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan on the magic of communing with every living thing

15

Melissa Hemsley’s calm chaos

16

Sam Baker on the challenges of letting go

17

Andy J. Pizza’s magical, moving ADHD landscape

18

Oliver Burkeman’s art of the non-retreat

19

Laura Pashby's lighthouse at the end of the world

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Cariad Lloyd’s mossy, mythical retreat

21

Introducing The Clearing

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Sarah Moss on memory and meaning-making

23

Exploring Hilary Mantel's memoir with Jillian Hess

24

Kate Fox on the potential and power of poetry

25

Oliver Burkeman on mortality, acceptance and imperfectionism

26

Lucy Jones on matrescence, maternal myths and transformation

27

Daniel Tammet on real autistic lives

28

Tom Newlands on writing neurodivergence with a light touch

29

Samantha Irby on being a person

30

Camille T. Dungy on unearthing histories

31

Kaitlin Curtice on resisting with integrity

32

Erica Berry on the meaning of wolves

33

Dacher Keltner on awe, humility and purpose

34

Marjolijn van Heemstra on the overview effect

35

Amy Jeffs on ancient stories and new understandings

36

Báyò Akómoláfé on fugitive ideas

37

Kerri ní Dochartaigh on the mystical everyday

38

Morgan Harper Nichols on art and perception

39

Pico Iyer on the wisdom of travellers

40

Bonus episode: Katherine May on burnout and why we all need a little more wonder in our lives

41

Ece Temelkuran on the politics of emotion

42

Emma Gannon on understanding, not agreeing

43

Jay Griffiths on the ecology of connection

44

Lama Rod Owens on necessary change

45

Simran Jeet Singh on Radical Interconnectedness

46

Priya Parker on gathering well

47

Susan Cain on the bittersweet & introducing How We Live Now

48

Raynor Winn on losing everything and finding home

49

Leah Hazard on changing career after having her first child

50

Remona Aly on breaking an engagement, and the transformative force of grief

51

Emma Dabiri on history and belonging

52

Saima Mir on marriage, dreams and late flourishing

53

Ross Gay on delight

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Aja Barber on getting dressed

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Joanne Limburg on reclaiming weird

56

Cole Arthur Riley on "We did good"

57

Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body

58

Meghan O' Rourke on the invisible kingdom of chronic illness

59

Sara Tasker on hyperfocus, exhaustion and finding the new normal

60

Gemma Cairney on conducting energy with balance and motion

61

Aimee Nezhukumatathil on nurturing wonder through nature

62

Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland

63

Maggie Smith on the mutual reflection of poetry

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Cheryl Strayed on walking through the wilderness

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Jennifer Pastiloff on the power of 'I Got You'

66

Jackee Holder on the good things in life

67

Michelle Adams on how life can change in an instant

68

Angela Barnes on the continual winter of Persistent Depressive Disorder

69

Josie George on the joy of small things

70

Georgina Lawton on growing up Black in a white family

71

Tanya Shadrick on learning that life is short

72

Zeba Talkhani on surviving online abuse

73

Sara Ryan on grief, justice and righteous anger

74

Marlee Grace on journeying to the center

75

Nicola Slawson on being alone in Berlin

76

Michele Harper on the calling to work in ER

77

Kerri Ni Dochartaigh on healing the trauma of The Troubles

78

Sophia Blackwell on a lost time between two loves

79

Remona Aly on breaking an engagement and the transformative force of grief

80

Raynor Winn on losing everything and finding home

81

Huma Qureshi on the pregnancy that diverted her writing dreams

82

Jini Reddy on bereavement and finding a way through life

83

Rebecca Armstrong on giving up alcohol

84

Catherine Cho on postpartum psychosis

85

Leah Hazard on changing career after having her first child

86

Penny Wincer on being a carer twice over

87

Trailer: The Wintering Sessions with Katherine May