How We Live Now with Katherine May
How should we live in this world when so much is changed? Katherine May, author of Wintering and the Electricity of Every Living Thing, asks those most intimate with the effects of these transformations: what now?
How do we stay soft in a world determined to harden? How can we bear witness to suffering without being dragged into despair? How do we ride the waves of our anger, sorrow and exhaustion, and still find space for wonder, hope and joy? How can we possibly help?
In a series of frank, thoughtful and deeply personal conversations, How We Live Now will explore the cultural, social and spiritual mindset for this long moment.
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- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Aimee Nezhukumatathil on nurturing wonder through nature
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of ‘World Of Wonders’ and more.
An uplifting, soulful and inspiring chat with Aimee and …
Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Elissa Altman, author of ‘Motherland’ and more.
Katherine finds Elissa in that pre-Christmas zone, which serves as the…
Maggie Smith on the mutual reflection of poetry
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Maggie Smith, poet, writer and editor from Columbus, Ohio.
You may know Maggie's tremendous work via her poem 'Good Bo…
Cheryl Strayed on walking through the wilderness
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Cheryl Strayed, author of ‘Wild’ and so many more.
A luxurious chat from the beginning til the end, this is a wonderfu…
Jennifer Pastiloff on the power of 'I Got You'
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Jennifer Pastiloff, a speaker, teacher, and author of ‘On Being Human’.
In a warm and honest chat with Katherine, Jenn…
Jackee Holder on the good things in life
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Jackee Holder, coach and author of 'Writing With Fabulous Trees', among many more.
Jackee Holder is a writer, walker, …
Michelle Adams on how life can change in an instant
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to author Michelle Adams.
Michelle Adams is best known as the author of Little Wishes, Between the Lies and My Sister. In…
Angela Barnes on the continual winter of Persistent Depressive Disorder
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Angela Barnes, podcaster, comedian and regular panel guest on Mock The Week (and much more!).
Angela Barnes has zero t…
Josie George on the joy of small things
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Josie George, author of 'A Still Life: A Memoir'.
Josie George has always lived with a complex of medical conditions t…
Georgina Lawton on growing up Black in a white family
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Georgina Lawton, author of 'Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong'.
For most of …
Tanya Shadrick on learning that life is short
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Tanya Shadrick, author of 'The Cure For Sleep'.
A few days after giving birth, Tanya found herself in an ambulance, ba…
Zeba Talkhani on surviving online abuse
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Zeba Talkhani, author of 'My Past Is A Foreign Country'.
Growing up as an Indian Muslim in socially-repressive Saudi A…
Sara Ryan on grief, justice and righteous anger
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Sara Ryan, author of 'Justice For Laughing Boy'.
After Sara Ryan's autistic son, Connor, was sectioned and admitted to…
Marlee Grace on journeying to the center
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Marlee Grace, author of 'Getting To Center'.
In this frank and wide-ranging conversation, Marlee Grace talks about the…
Nicola Slawson on being alone in Berlin
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Nicola Slawson, journalist and founder of 'The Single Supplement'.
Through her newsletter The Single Supplement, Nicol…
Michele Harper on the calling to work in ER
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Michele Harper, author of 'The Beauty In Breaking'.
Michele Harper's career as a physician is a true vocation - the re…
Kerri Ni Dochartaigh on healing the trauma of The Troubles
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.
This week Katherine chats to Kerri Ni Dochartaigh, author of 'Thin Places'.
Kerri talks in detail about the aftermath of growing up in Derry at the…
Sophia Blackwell on a lost time between two loves
In this episode, I speak to poet, novelist and broadcaster Sophia Blackwell about the time when a relationship brutally ended, leaving her flailing around to find a sense of home.
Sophia discusses th…
Remona Aly on breaking an engagement and the transformative force of grief
In this final episode of Season One, I speak to journalist and broadcaster Remona Aly about her life-changing decision to call off an engagement, and how it echoed through the years to teach her abou…
Raynor Winn on losing everything and finding home
Author Raynor Winn talks to Katherine May about the losing her home when her husband was diagnosed with a terminal illess, and finding new life from having nothing
Raynor Winn has captured a multitude…