Katherine May

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How often do you cultivate quiet moments that are just for you? Best-selling author Katherine May believes being alone doesn’t necessarily mean feeling lonely. In this chat, Fearne and Katherine talk about how nature retreats and blooms across the seasons, and why it might be helpful for us to think of each of our own years in a similar way.

Plus, they chat about why we find it harder to be wrong than we used to; how can we better cultivate community in order to keep being curious about different experiences and opinions? Katherine also talks about learning she’s autistic later in life.

Katherine’s latest book, Enchantment, is out March 9th: https://linktr.ee/enchantmentbook

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that
0:05.9	hopes to make your day a little bit slower, a little bit calmer and more
0:11.8	contented. Today I'm chatting to Catherine May. I really think that we are now
0:16.9	burning out from years of presenting ourselves as not just like fine but
0:24.1	super fine and everything's beautiful and everything's glamorous. We're only
0:28.8	achieving like we're never processing or reflecting or integrating and if you
0:36.2	look at the way the year works there are times when we're clearly supposed to
0:41.4	be growing and times when we're supposed to be drawing inwards and letting
0:45.4	everything sink through again and both of those are equally valid and we only
0:50.2	really want to talk about one. Catherine is an international best-selling author and
0:54.4	podcaster. I first happened to find out about Catherine's beautiful books because
1:00.6	I was gifted her book Wintering which I think has happened a lot with this book
1:05.5	because it feels really personal, really intimate to read because it's all
1:11.0	about those times in life where you know you need to retreat and you sort of
1:17.3	step away from your own life a little bit and you get really quiet and you get
1:21.0	really inquisitive and that is something. Well there's certainly moments that I'm
1:25.0	always looking for and Catherine's new book in Charmann is all about
1:29.4	experiencing awe. We had this chat remotely just the other week and we covered
1:34.4	so many big topics. Everything from the importance of cultivating quiet moments
1:40.4	that exist just for you to why we may be find it harder to be wrong than we used to.
1:45.8	I work hard for my money so I'm not just going to let it sit still while
1:53.0	everything else is going up. That's why I chose F&C investment trust. With one
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