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All Episodes

The Clearing with Katherine May — 92 episodes

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1

Anna Brones’ Scandinavian saltwater idyll

2

Alice Vincent’s joyful soundscape of human togetherness

3

Joycelyn Longdon on imagining an abundant future

4

Yasmin Khan’s warm seas and verdant greens

5

Kate Bowler’s Bridge of Absurdity

6

Jeffrey Boakye’s city path to peace

7

Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane ‘dream of nest’

8

Season Two Trailer

9

Carissa Potter’s hot springs artist retreat

10

Elissa Altman on the beauty of impermanence

11

Jen Hatmaker’s escape from the hate lane

12

Daisy Buchanan’s Swiss mountain glamour

13

Poorna Bell’s New Zealand vista

14

Emma Gannon’s year of desert rest

15

Mike Sowden’s island of curiosity

16

Season One Interlude

17

Ece Temelkuran’s landscape of belonging

18

Kaitlin Curtice’s sanctuary of the subconscious

19

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

20

Melissa Hemsley’s calm chaos

21

Sam Baker on the challenges of letting go

22

Andy J. Pizza’s magical, moving ADHD landscape

23

Oliver Burkeman’s art of the non-retreat

24

Laura Pashby's lighthouse at the end of the world

25

Cariad Lloyd’s mossy, mythical retreat

26

Introducing The Clearing

27

Sarah Moss on memory and meaning-making

28

Exploring Hilary Mantel's memoir with Jillian Hess

29

Kate Fox on the potential and power of poetry

30

Oliver Burkeman on mortality, acceptance and imperfectionism

31

Lucy Jones on matrescence, maternal myths and transformation

32

Daniel Tammet on real autistic lives

33

Tom Newlands on writing neurodivergence with a light touch

34

Samantha Irby on being a person

35

Camille T. Dungy on unearthing histories

36

Kaitlin Curtice on resisting with integrity

37

Erica Berry on the meaning of wolves

38

Dacher Keltner on awe, humility and purpose

39

Marjolijn van Heemstra on the overview effect

40

Amy Jeffs on ancient stories and new understandings

41

Báyò Akómoláfé on fugitive ideas

42

Kerri ní Dochartaigh on the mystical everyday

43

Morgan Harper Nichols on art and perception

44

Pico Iyer on the wisdom of travellers

45

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

46

Ece Temelkuran on the politics of emotion

47

Emma Gannon on understanding, not agreeing

48

Jay Griffiths on the ecology of connection

49

Lama Rod Owens on necessary change

50

Simran Jeet Singh on Radical Interconnectedness

51

Priya Parker on gathering well

52

Susan Cain on the bittersweet & introducing How We Live Now

53

Raynor Winn on losing everything and finding home

54

Leah Hazard on changing career after having her first child

55

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

56

Emma Dabiri on history and belonging

57

Saima Mir on marriage, dreams and late flourishing

58

Ross Gay on delight

59

Aja Barber on getting dressed

60

Joanne Limburg on reclaiming weird

61

Cole Arthur Riley on "We did good"

62

Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body

63

Meghan O' Rourke on the invisible kingdom of chronic illness

64

Sara Tasker on hyperfocus, exhaustion and finding the new normal

65

Gemma Cairney on conducting energy with balance and motion

66

Aimee Nezhukumatathil on nurturing wonder through nature

67

Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland

68

Maggie Smith on the mutual reflection of poetry

69

Cheryl Strayed on walking through the wilderness

70

Jennifer Pastiloff on the power of 'I Got You'

71

Jackee Holder on the good things in life

72

Michelle Adams on how life can change in an instant

73

Angela Barnes on the continual winter of Persistent Depressive Disorder

74

Josie George on the joy of small things

75

Georgina Lawton on growing up Black in a white family

76

Tanya Shadrick on learning that life is short

77

Zeba Talkhani on surviving online abuse

78

Sara Ryan on grief, justice and righteous anger

79

Marlee Grace on journeying to the center

80

Nicola Slawson on being alone in Berlin

81

Michele Harper on the calling to work in ER

82

Kerri Ni Dochartaigh on healing the trauma of The Troubles

83

Sophia Blackwell on a lost time between two loves

84

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

85

Raynor Winn on losing everything and finding home

86

Huma Qureshi on the pregnancy that diverted her writing dreams

87

Jini Reddy on bereavement and finding a way through life

88

Rebecca Armstrong on giving up alcohol

89

Catherine Cho on postpartum psychosis

90

Leah Hazard on changing career after having her first child

91

Penny Wincer on being a carer twice over

92

Trailer: The Wintering Sessions with Katherine May