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A Cup of Cold Water

Episodes

June 12, 2025

22 - Like a Peony

Aren't peonies wonderful? I just love their open armed generosity, exquisite fragrance, and humble flamboyance. Don't you want to be like one? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

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June 5, 2025

21 - Where Sheep May Safely Graze

What can we learn from sheep? How do we behave in a herd? Are we as docile, frolicking, and contemplative as sheep? Can we likewise can rely on our divine shepherd to care for us and protect us? Polly Castor is an artist, poe...

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May 29, 2025

20-Respond Instead of React

Are you reactionary and want to know how and why to stop it? What is better than you flying off the handle? What are the blessings of responding instead of reacting? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.…

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May 22, 2025

19-The Panoply of Love

How do you protect yourself from human hatred? How do you get safe inside Love's protection? Is there an aspect of love you've let lapse that is allowing you to be vulnerable? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer...

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May 15, 2025

18- Where is Your Third Place?

Where do you go for a sense of belonging? Where do you go to engage with other people? Where do you go to know and be known? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

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May 8, 2025

Our Mother Which Art in Heaven

Is the idea of God as Mother more accessible to you than God as Father? How does the idea of God as Mother differ from the concept and feeling of God as Father? What kind of relationship with God is most useful to you? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle …

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May 1, 2025

16-The Wisdom of Plants

What can show you how to be content with where you are? What can teach you how to pace yourself, and own your inherent fabulousness? What can tutor you to be deeply authentic? What can instruct you to be resilient and success...

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April 24, 2025

15 - Muddy

Do you feel stuck in a muddled world? Are you just barely muddling forward? It is time to wash off all that mud! Listen to my poem about getting out of the mud! Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. ...

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April 17, 2025

14-Resurrection a Reminder of Hope and Renewal

What is the meaning of Easter? I used to think it was about chocolate bunnies and jelly beans. In this episode I share what I've learned that is far more encouraging. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blo...

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April 10, 2025

13 – Discipline

How do you define discipline? Is discipline your friend, or something you chafe against? How can a good definition of discipline empower you? Can you use a better sense of discipline to manage yourself better? Polly Castor is...

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April 3, 2025

12 – Silence Your Inner Critic

Are you critical of yourself? Is your inner critic bullying you? How can you control all that negative chatter in your head? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.co...

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March 27, 2025

11 – Not Disconnected

Do you feel isolated and alone? Do you feel left out or unimportant? This short poem shares a couple metaphors to help you to realize how included and integral you are. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and b...

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March 20, 2025

10 – Joy Is an Act of Resistance

Is error impersonating veracity? Are you standing aghast? Or are you amplifying good instead? This poem considers what is the most effective form of resistance. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. ...

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March 13, 2025

9 – How to Overcome Regret

Do you know how to overcome regret and let it go? Can you forgive yourself that you don't have a perfect past? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist websi...

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March 6, 2025

8 – Live Larger

Are you wondering why you are so uninspired? Slip out of your anxious smallness and live larger. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCasto...

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Feb. 27, 2025

7 – Freedom from Yourself

Does how you identify yourself make you happy? Are you living in the present? Or are you fearful about the future, or living in the past? Does the future or past keep you from being all you can be right now? Listen now to s...

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Feb. 20, 2025

6 – Employ Courage

Could you use a little courage right now? Today's episode is a poem about how to employ courage in your life. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist websit...

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Feb. 15, 2025

5 – I Am From

Do you wonder who is talking on this podcast? Get to know me a little bit in this episode, where I share some of the experiences that made me who I am. Click the contact button below and share with me a bit of who you are. Po...

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Feb. 8, 2025

4 – From Atheism to Believing in Divine Love

Are there many versions of God you don't believe in? In this episode, I share how I went from rejecting the whole concept of God, to finding what genuinely resonated for me. You can do this too. Be encouraged to think through...

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Feb. 8, 2025

2 – 25 Life Lessons

What makes the most difference in your life? Do you love hearing someone sum up what they've learned that makes the most difference in their life? Since I can remember, I've loved reading and collecting these, as well as pond...

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Feb. 8, 2025

3 – Cross Pollinating and Butterfly Chasing

Has anyone ever insisted you need to focus on only one thing, and stop "chasing butterflies"? This episode challenges that narrow outlook and encourages you to diversify your interests instead, and see how they combine and su...

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Feb. 8, 2025

1 – Giving a Cup of Cold Water

Welcome to Episode 1 of A Cup of Cold Water podcast. How do you feel when someone gives you a cup of cold water? Sometimes you need just a little refreshment in a way you can use it, instead of trying to drink from a fire hos...

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