Episodes
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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, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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.com Contact her here
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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, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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
17
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 Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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 successful, while being unconcerned and unassuming? What can coach you to value yourself, regardless of what other people have to say.? Try emulating plants! Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: ...
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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. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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 blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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 an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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 blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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 website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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 see how you can experience your "unselfed better self." 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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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 website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
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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. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
4
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 what definition of God you can agree with. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here
2
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 pondering and considering what I would include on mine. Listen in for my current list and get a print out of it here on the show notes page. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.c...
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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 support one another. Opening your thought will not only make you happier, but more successful as well. 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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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 hose. Normally, in this podcast I'll be sharing a cup of old water with you, but this episode is about the blessings of you sharing one with others. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCa...