Walking in my local woods celebrating the end of my master’s degree and the beautiful day. Looking at trees, trying to capture, in my imagination, a brown butterfly with yellow spots on its wings and tempting you away from your desk as ever for a 10 minute walk in nature. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 20, 2025•12 min•Season 57Ep. 10
Walking in my local woods this lunchtime and summing up series 57. Could it be that lament is all about the holding of space. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 19, 2025•12 min•Season 57Ep. 9
Walking in local woods, thinking about intergenerational lament this lunchtime and the ways that lament can lay dormant for generations before sparking new exploration and investigation. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 18, 2025•11 min•Season 57Ep. 8
Walking in local woods this gratiTuesday, and introducing Footpath Finds: a gratitude practice game that you can play today. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 17, 2025•11 min•Season 57Ep. 7
Walking amongst tall trees in local woods, thinking about how physical space can capture lasting lament. The story of George Perry Floyd Square, Minneapolis.
Jun 16, 2025•11 min•Season 57Ep. 6
A round up of the first week of episodes on lament walking around the park behind the hospital this sunny Friday, tempting you away from your desk to reconnect with nature through walking. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 13, 2025•10 min•Season 57Ep. 5
Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about lament as a cultural earthquake detector. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 12, 2025•10 min•Season 57Ep. 4
Walking in my local Cannon Hill Common woods this lunchtime pondering lament’s ability to break down performative behaviours and connect us. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 11, 2025•12 min•Season 57Ep. 3
Walking amongst gigantic plane trees this lunchtime. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 10, 2025•12 min•Season 57Ep. 2
Discussing definitions of our new theme, lament this lunchtime. What does lament mean to you? Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for weekly walking challenges, theme voting, private Discord server and exclusive merch! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Jun 09, 2025•10 min•Season 57Ep. 1
Thank you for listening to this series dear friends, it has been a delight to stretch my legs with you. Looking forward to Series 57 already. https://walkthepod.com
May 09, 2025•10 min•Season 56Ep. 10
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime thinking about the work of Brickman and Campbell which says that humans return to their baseline happiness level following traumatic or joyful experiences. Plus a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska.
May 08, 2025•11 min•Season 56Ep. 9
Walking through the woods and into the allotments this lunchtime. In this episode, I’m considering whether we could call time on comparing ourselves to other people.
May 07, 2025•11 min•Season 56Ep. 8
Walking in the woods just over the road from home this lunchtime having enough of distractions. Emails, social media updates, news, phone calls, text messages… Distractions are everywhere.
May 06, 2025•10 min•Season 56Ep. 7
Walking next to the lake at the bottom of the hill from home this lunchtime counting ducklings and thinking about our theme for the month of Enough! On today’s episode, enough centring other peoples opinions and not giving ourselves and our ideas a vote.
May 05, 2025•10 min•Season 56Ep. 6
Walking around Tavistock Square Gardens in central London this lunchtime thinking about our series so far and what we’ve learned about Enough! Plus a voice note from Marcel in the Netherlands.
May 02, 2025•10 min•Season 56Ep. 5
Walking around the park behind the hospital on the most beautiful day in the world in which everybody appears to have lost their minds - it’s so sunny!
May 01, 2025•13 min•Season 56Ep. 4
Walking the woods of Cannon Hill Common this lunchtime reconnecting with nature and wondering whether happiness lies in deepening the commitments we already have rather than branching out for the new.
Apr 30, 2025•11 min•Season 56Ep. 3
Walking around my local streets with a radical prompt for you this afternoon, dear friends: what if by ploughing ahead trying to achieve all the things, we miss out on the serendipitous?
Apr 29, 2025•11 min•Season 56Ep. 2
Thinking about how to have enough this lunchtime and an invitation to get involved with a fresh set of journal prompts on our new theme. Walking in the park behind St George’s Hospital, keeping my eyes peeled for the 16 Pets as Therapy dogs that are on a lunchtime walk today.
Apr 28, 2025•11 min•Season 56Ep. 1
Welcome to the start of our new podcast series, Series 56, centered around the thought-provoking theme of 'Enough!' As we look forward to the new series, I wanted to provide you with your first set of journal prompts, offering you a dedicated space for reflection, maybe even self-discovery. Consider this your invitation to carve out a little time just for you. Perhaps brew a comforting drink, open your favorite notebook to a fresh page, sharpen your pencil, and allow yourself 20 minutes of unint...
Apr 25, 2025•7 min
Walking along suburban streets this lunchtime, wrapping up the series on courage and inviting you away from your desk for one last 10-minute walk in nature, this month. Will be back in April with series 56, meanwhile take care of your beautiful mind yourselves, and each other, and thank you for listening.
Mar 21, 2025•11 min•Season 55Ep. 10
Walking on Cannon Hill Common this lunchtime, thinking about how the courage to make positive change means that we can go slowly in our day-to-day, minute-to-minute lives.
Mar 20, 2025•11 min•Season 55Ep. 9
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime considering the courage to face the present moment.
Mar 19, 2025•10 min•Season 55Ep. 8
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime considering the courage of Dory to Just Keep Swimming! It’s the most beautiful day in the world and we’ve made it through the winter.
Mar 18, 2025•12 min•Season 55Ep. 7
Today, dear friends, I’m walking around the park behind the hospital thinking about Courage in leadership, aka Courage amidst chaos!
Mar 17, 2025•11 min•Season 55Ep. 6
Walking around the park behind the hospital, as temperatures dip again, considering the Adlerian idea that it is braver to be happy than to be unhappy. Plus a voicenote from John in Muswell Hill.
Mar 14, 2025•8 min•Season 55Ep. 5
Walking around Gordon Square Gardens this Thursday lunchtime, tempting you away from your desk to spend 10 minutes walking in nature and considering how to remain courageous when we feel down and out.
Mar 13, 2025•11 min
Walking around the park behind the hospital, contemplating the courage to be disliked - the title of our book this series.
Mar 12, 2025•10 min•Season 55Ep. 3
Taking you with me on my morning commute to work and thinking about courage and how it is unique to each person. Plus a voice note from Cindy in Nebraska.
Mar 11, 2025•11 min•Season 55Ep. 2
