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How To Stay Sane, Rested, and Useful During Hard Times | Katherine May
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Winter is coming. The author of Wintering on weathering the cold, dark seasons, literally and otherwise, with rituals, cold-water swimming, reading in the middle of the night, and a lesson from a hibernating dormouse.
Katherine May is the New York Times bestselling author of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. She is an internationally renowned writer, podcaster and speaker whose work touches on nature, spirituality, slow living, and neurodivergence; her podcast is The Clearing. Katherine lives by the sea in Whitstable, UK, with her husband, son, and pets.
In this episode we talk about:
- What "wintering" means, and why hard seasons aren't personal failures
- How trees and a hibernating dormouse model surviving the cold
- Katherine's year of cascading disasters while writing Wintering
- The difference between control and agency when the world feels overwhelming
- How fear spreads online like rabbits fleeing danger signals
- Why rest isn't selfish, and how caregivers are denied it
- Rejecting performative rest, ice-bath bros, and biohacked cold-water swimming
- Simple rituals, "first and second sleep," and reading through insomnia
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