Best-selling author and activist Sarah Wilson on using routine to bookend your days, tilting rather than abiding by strict rules, cool aloneness as an antidote to loneliness, and showing up to our appointment in life – in our own way.

Coach, author and speaker Kemi Nekvapil on letting go of shoulds, having a weekly routine, the creative process, and the importance of defining your own relationship to routine.

Welcome to Rest & Recreation, a companion to Routines & Ruts conversations podcast. Each week, host Madeleine Dore shares reflections from previous interviews and interesting reads to offer you a moment of R&R.

Folk singer, theatre performer and author of 'Period Queen' Lucy Peach shares how to zoom out and look at the four phases of the menstrual cycle – and the power within each.

Welcome to Rest & Recreation, a companion to Routines & Ruts conversations podcast. Each week, host Madeleine Dore shares reflections from previous interviews and interesting reads to offer you a moment of R&R.

Social researcher and best-selling author Hugh Mackay talks about our top twenty hiding places – and how we must look inside ourselves to find our common humanity.

Routines & Ruts with Madeleine Dore is returning soon for season two to explore daily rhythms and inevitable stumbles – and what it means to replenish.

Designer, author and joy-finder Ingrid Fetell Lee explores the powerful connection between our surroundings and our emotions, and shares how we can find more joy in daily life – even in difficult times.

Former chef and food critic turned gourmet farmer Matthew Evans on feeling stifled during times of crisis, how it's okay to be behind, the importance of boredom, and how we are still the same people even if we have more time.

In this special collection, more than 60 people share how they are navigating their daily routines, reflections on creative life, and open up about how they are coping during these times.