Podcast: The Hagitude Sessions are now available

Hi everyone – as promised a while ago in my monthly newsletter, beginning today, I’ll be offering a series of special weekly episodes of my This Mythic Life podcast, dedicated to Hagitude. You’ll find me in conversation with a selection of remarkable women, speaking about our experiences of the gifts and challenges we’ve faced in the second half of our lives.

You can listen to The Hagitude Sessions every Monday on my website as they’re released, on this page, or subscribe to This Mythic Life at SoundCloud, on iTunes, on Stitcher and on TuneIn. (Sometimes it can take an extra 24 hours or so for the latter three podcast providers to refresh the feed, but they’re always available first on the website and on SoundCloud.)

My first guest is writer Tanya Shadrick, who is also a member of the team for my Hagitude membership program, which begins on October 1.

Tanya is a former hospice scribe who embarked on her first public creative work after forty with The Wild Patience Scrolls: a mile of writing composed pen on paper beside England’s oldest outdoor pool. Since then, she has been a writer-in-residence at many other extraordinary locations, including the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland and Virginia Woolf’s garden on the Sussex Downs. As founder of The Selkie Press, Tanya is also editor of Wild Woman Swimming – a journal of west country waters longlisted for the 2019 Wainwright Prize: a book she promised to make after a single meeting with its dying author, Lynne Roper.

Her own book The Cure for Sleep tells the story of how she transformed her life – slowly and steadily – after sudden near-death at thirty-three. A Waterstones non-fiction book for 2022, it has been described by them as ‘a sublimely written account of refusing to be defined by social constructs and embracing life-enhancing change.’ All of Tanya’s work seeks to call forth stories in others – a practice which earned her Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2018. 

I hope you enjoy listening!

With greetings from a wonderfully drizzly Wales,

Sharon

(I won’t be sending out an email each week, so as not to overload your inboxes, so please do subscribe to one of the podcast providers above if you’d like to receive the episodes automatically. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, I will be posting each episode there.)