Beste Catherine Cowell podcaster (2024)

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Feminine God: A Conversation with Hannah Lamberth 41:47

8d ago41:47

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Back in July, Catherine released an episode called ‘Is God Feminine’, exploring the feminine images for God in the Bible and suggesting that if men and women are made in the image of the Divine, then we shouldn’t be surprised to find feminine names and imagery for God in the Bible. Hannah wanted to discuss the episode to find out more and to share …

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Art and Spirituality: Sarah Clarke from CMS 39:12

22d ago39:12

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Sarah Clarke is a lecturer at the Church Mission Society (CMS) and has a particular interest in art as a way into the sacred. And the ways that art can facilitate expression in ways that words cannot. Full transcript We'd always love to hear from you. You can get in touch by connecting via our Facebook page To find out more about Catherine, her spi…

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Jocie and Dave Twine: Life Project 46:43

1M ago46:43

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Catherine chatted with Jocie and Dave Twine, founders of the Life Project, in their caravan awning at the New Wine Christian festival this summer. They talk about the joys and challenges of life with their son Josh, who has autism and semantic pragmatic disorder. He also has a fantastic memory and an incredible singing voice. They set up the Life P…

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Hannah Lamberth: No Diggers Allowed! 43:49

2M ago43:49

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Catherine and Hannah talk about the lack of tacky Christian gifts in Criccieth, a fish called Brian and a cuddly sheep. Mainly they discuss how we are less building sites to be constructed and more wild islands to be loved and nurtured. We would love to hear from you. You can find us on our Facebook page or email Catherine: lovedcalledgifted@gmail.…

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Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy (PACE Part 2) 59:18

2M ago59:18

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Catherine and Margaret McGregor continue their conversation about PACE therapeutic parenting, reflecting on how this is both an excellent tool for the therapeutic parenting of children with attachment difficulties and other neurodiversity; as well as helping us to understand how God parents us and how we can be compassionate to ourselves. PACE (whi…

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Play as Spiritual Practice (Understanding PACE part one) 43:18

4M ago43:18

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In this episode, Catherine talks to Margaret McGregor about the place of play and playfulness in our parenting practice, our spirituality and how we see and relate to ourselves. The PACE parenting approach, devised by Dan Hughes, has been the cornerstone of trauma informed, therapeutic parenting practice for over twenty years. It stands for Playful…

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Catherine Cowell: Is God Feminine? 32:47

4M ago32:47

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We are very used to thinking of God as He. With a capital ‘H’. There has not been much space in Christian tradition for viewing God as anything but male. The God of the Bible, we tend to assume, is entirely masculine. But, in fact, there is also a wealth of feminine imagery for God in the Bible, if you know where to look. In this episode, Catherine…

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Jane Dicker: Being a Benedictine Oblate 28:30

4M ago28:30

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Monasticism is not just for people who are part of a convent or a monastery. There are many people who are part of monastic communities while living normal, every day lives. One of these communities is that of the Benedictine Oblates, who seek to follow the rule of Saint Benedict. On International Women's Day, Catherine interviewed Jane Dicker, one…

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Glenn Hussey: Faith, Family and Fatherhood 1:00:49

5M ago1:00:49

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Glenn Hussey is the father of four adopted children and a senior lecturer at Keele University, in the school of Life Sciences where he also has a key role in equality, diversity and inclusion. In this wide ranging conversation he talks about his Roman Catholic faith, his belief in the importance of valuing every human being and the vocation of fath…

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Lillibet: A Welcome Calling 27:12

5M ago27:12

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Catherine meets Lillibet Goodwin, who shares her passion for working with children with special needs and her friendship with a young man with autism. She talks about her experience of having adopted siblings, what that has taught her about the importance of accepting and welcoming others, the therapeutic value of art, and meeting Jesus in those so…

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Amy Daughters: How writing letters changed my life 39:01

6M ago39:01

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Amy Weinland Daughters calls in from Texas to chat with Catherine about the vast number of letters she has written, and the book that followed. This is a story of deep friendship, that began when Amy decided that she would support a grieving mother by writing to her. It's a story of connection despite differences and God's grace in people's lives, …

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The STILL Method with Sarah Watson 40:12

6M ago40:12

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Today Catherine is talking to Sarah, who is just embarking on a new adventure, and hoping to take others along with her. Diving into the STILL course, together they unpack some of the toolbox of techniques that Sarah has learned, that can help others manage anxiety and overwhelm, but also to pick up more slack where they are able to, too. And in be…

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Getting Triggered: Sally Bubbers 32:51

7M ago32:51

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These days, people are often talking about 'being triggered' and there are trigger warnings on all sorts of things. But what do we actually mean when we talk about triggering? What is happening to us when it happens? And what can we do about it? For ourselves and for others. There is a useful handout to accompany this show that you can find here. T…

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Rob Rogers and ACT Oxford: Compassion in Action 46:54

7M ago46:54

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Catherine meets Rev Rob Rogers, from Oxford, at St Aldate's parish centre. They talk about this city of contrasts, where those leaving prison and the homeless also live among the dreaming spires. Rob talks about the way community can bring help and healing. Rob has been on both sides of the coin of homelessness and addiction, so as he and Catherine…

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Rev Jane Dicker: 30 Years of Women's Ordination 29:22

8M ago29:22

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2024 marks 30 years since women were first ordained as priests into the Church of England in England, and today for International Women's Day, Catherine interviews Jane Dicker, who has been there from the beginning. Together they discuss the joys and frustrations found along the way; Jane in the thick of it, and Catherine cheering along as an obser…

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Hannah Lamberth: Ask a Better Question! 25:46

8M ago25:46

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This episode, Catherine is visiting Hannah, who no longer has a bathroom office and has been thinking about the kinds of questions we ask people when we first meet them. Hannah would like to ask better questions.... It's always great to hear from people, so if you'd like to get in touch, you can find us on Facebook. Transcript More about Loved Call…

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Godfrey Birtill: The Unforced Rhythms of Grace 32:38

9M ago32:38

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Godfrey Birtill has been singing and writing songs and producing albums at the rate of about one a year for more than 25 years. In this conversation, he talks about his unique musical style, his faith and his growing conviction that we don't need to earn God's love and favour. It is lavished upon us already. To really appreciate this episode, you a…

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Chaplaincy at Birmingham Children's Hospital with Andrew Phillips 40:12

9M ago40:12

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Catherine travels to Birmingham Children's Hospital to speak with Chaplain Andrew Phillips about his role supporting children, families and staff. He shares how he facilitates ways for them to cope with walking this hardest of paths, and also the way the children's own spiritualities are shaping him. Take off your shoes for this episode. You are on…

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Cathy Ross from CMS: Women on the Mission Field 30:59

10M ago30:59

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Cathy Ross, from the Church Mission Society, shares her experience of being a woman and a missionary in the Congo. She also talks about her research into the hidden experience of missionary women in the 19th century and the influence of the concept of pious domesticity, both then and now. Episode transcript About CMS Follow us on Facebook Loved Cal…

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Compassion with Siobhan Horton 44:08

11M ago44:08

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What is compassion? Can we keep being compassionate without reaching burnout? Siobhan Horton, who is a spiritual director and who worked with the dying for three decades as a palliative care nurse, has been fascinated by compassion for several years. In this episode, she shares her deep knowledge and insight about compassion, drawing together wisdo…

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Maria Garvey: Advent Thoughts 41:18

11M ago41:18

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Catherine chats with Maria Garvey again, to find they'd both been having similar thoughts regarding Advent. Namely that if you want to see the light that our Christ brings into the darkness, sometimes you have to be willing to see the darkness first. They explore that together in this episode; the ways it works and the ways sometimes it doesn't, an…

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Questions to help you find your calling 20:23

11M ago20:23

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This is more of a work-book episode of the podcast rather than a story-time one, as Catherine brings out some of her coaching and spiritual direction skills to share with us as we all learn a few more key questions to help us refine the mission for our own lives -- and some of them may even take you by surprise! Even if you are confident that you a…

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Wintering with Charli 44:51

12M ago44:51

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Loved Called Gifted now has a Facebook page, which you can find here. Catherine's friend Charli joins her today and they talk about Autumns and Winters in both their lives; paring back and releasing obligations in order to re-centre, and the things that then grow in the space created. Catherine also shares her wisdom as they compare stories about n…

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Create Bolton 42:12

1y ago42:12

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We have a new Facebook page. Just look for Loved Called Gifted. Today we are joining Catherine in Bolton at Create Bolton, a creative cafe that shows everyone that they have something to offer. The heartbeat and proprietor is Joy Kilpatrick who is the guest this week, talking about the twists and turns in her life path, and the faithfulness of God,…

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Types of Intelligence 16:29

1y ago16:29

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Podcast website How would you answer the question "Are you intelligent?" In this episode, drawing on the work of educational psychologist Howard Gardner, Catherine talks about why that's not a very useful question. A much better question is 'In what way are you intelligent?' The narrow way in which intelligence is often understood in society and ed…

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Waterways Chaplains 30:23

1y ago30:23

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For the first time Catherine has two guests in this episode, married couple Gill and John. They are both waterways chaplains, driving their boat through Britain's canals and helping the people they meet along the way. We start out meeting them and finding out a bit more about what they do, but the conversation quickly shifts and blossoms into learn…

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Hannah Lamberth: Wedding Dress Adventures 26:51

1y ago26:51

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Catherine is marrying the podcast editor next week [their transcriptionist wishes them well!]. In this episode Catherine recounts to Hannah Lambert the tale of finding her wedding dress, which then segues beautifully into a conversation about finding God in the details...or not, sometimes. If you like girly wedding talk, you'll enjoy this one, but …

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She Matters: Tracy Sickel of Imago Dei shares her passion for women in the prison system 26:11

1y ago26:11

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96% of the people in prison are men which means that the 4% of women in prison in the UK often find themselves overlooked in a system that was designed for men. Eight years ago, Tracy Sickel, a free church prison chaplain, started Imago Dei and since then she and her team have been ministering to women in prison, helping them to feel loved and valu…

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Maria Garvey: Community, Belonging and Finding Our Home in God 42:57

1+ y ago42:57

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In this last episode before our summer break, Catherine talks with Maria Garvey, who, twenty years ago, founded a L'Arche community in Northern Ireland. She describes her work as being about 'creating communities of belonging for people who find themselves marginalised'. She says 'who I am really is a commitment to everyone knowing that they matter…

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Love and the Divine 29:42

1+ y ago29:42

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What does it mean to have a love relationship with the divine? Christianity has at its core the concept that faith is about loving God and being loved by God. But what does that actually look like in practice? In this episode, Catherine shares some thoughts about that. The truth is that it's different for everyone... Transcript Website…

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Window of Tolerance with Sally Bubbers 47:13

1+ y ago47:13

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"Window of Tolerance" might not be a term that you've heard before, but it's a really useful concept and in this episode, Sally Bubbers explains it beautifully. You know that there are good days, when you are in that zone where life has enough interest and excitement and challenge to keep you engaged, curious, grounded, emotionally stable and winni…

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Understanding Personality 5: Judging and Perceiving 44:59

1+ y ago44:59

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Transcript Loved Called Gifted website Polly joins Catherine for the last of our series looking at personality through the lens of Myers Briggs. This time we're talking about judging and perceiving. Do you like things planned, organised and decided, or do you prefer to keep possibilities open? Do you find structure and rules calming or constraini…

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Understanding Personality Part 4: Why some people do details and others just don’t 47:13

1+ y ago47:13

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Catherine is joined by Polly for our fourth conversation looking at personality throughout the lens of the Myers Briggs model. This time we’re discussing what Myers Briggs refers to as Sensing and Intuition - the S and the N for those who speak MBTI. Are you practical, down to earth and good at remembering details? Do you like ideas and theories? D…

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Howard Jones: Downward Mobility and Radical Acceptance 44:18

1+ y ago44:18

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Howard is a baptist minister who chose to leave his successful church in the posh part of Birmingham to move with his wife, Iona, to Cobridge, one of the most deprived areas of Stoke on Trent. He no longer leads a church. Instead, working as part of Urban Expression, he and Iona seek simply to be a blessing to the community they have grown to love.…

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Stages of Faith: How spirituality changes across a lifetime with Joe Davis 41:52

1+ y ago41:52

41:52

Do you feel like your faith suddenly isn't making sense any more? Have the answers you've been relying on stopped making sense? Feeling like you've outgrown church...but you don't really want to abandon it? Like you're too far along and this should all be sorted by now? Where the worldview you formed from reading the Bible doesn't properly fit your…

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Hannah Lamberth: Paint Reflections 32:32

1+ y ago32:32

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Catherine is joined again by Hannah Lamberth, who has been redecorating recently. She shares reflections about faith, Jesus, life and Farrow and Balls paint charts. Full transcript of this episode The Loved Called Gifted WebsiteAv Catherine Cowell

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Felicia Goodwin: Church, family, love and welcome 1:04:57

1+ y ago1:04:57

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Catherine talks with Felicia, who founded and pastors New Life Family Church. In their conversation together, Felicia shares the story of how that happened. It's a story of welcome, of tears, of considered decisions and second chances. And a story of reading the times, knowing when to move forward and when to wait. It’s about the fact that calling …

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Internal Family Systems with Sally Bubbers 30:34

1+ y ago30:34

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Ever had a reaction that seemed really out of proportion to the situation at hand? Or a fear that you knew was irrational? Ever wondered why your inner voice can be so darn critical at times? In this episode Catherine talks with Sally Bubbers, a psychotherapist, who answers all these questions and more as she explains the Parts Theory of Internal F…

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Missing Women in Church History: Getting Cross and Getting Creative with Katie Moritz 46:10

1+ y ago46:10

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While studying theology, Katie discovered that there were women and women's movements in church history that she knew nothing about. Incredible, creative, humanitarians, writers and revolutionaries who have been largely forgotten. People like Julian of Norwich, whose writings only survived because they were hidden by nuns for centuries. Desert moth…

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Personality part 3: Thinking and Feeling 38:11

1+ y ago38:11

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This is the third in our series on personality, users the lens of the Myers-Briggs model. This time, Catherine is joined by Sean Kennedy to discuss thinking and feeling. How do you process information? When faced with a situation, do you work out what you think about it before you decide what you feel about it? Or are you one of those people who do…

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Sarah Page:Motherhood, Jesus and finding gems in the darkness 1:12:26

2y ago1:12:26

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If pregnancy, birth and motherhood are not living up to the ideals you imagined and you're experiencing way less sleep and way more difficulties than you bargained for, this episode is for you. Even if that's not your situation, there is lots to learn here. In this episode Catherine interviews Sarah Page about the gruelling glory and redemption she…

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Finding your calling: Doing more of what brings you joy 36:29

2y ago36:29

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Finding what we're called to do in life often involves putting together a number of puzzle pieces. This episode looks at one of them. Noticing the things that give us life. Drawing on the work of Daniel Pink around motivation, Catherine explores how we can do more of what gives us joy. Find a transcript of this podcast here.…

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Philip Francis Anderson 35:55

2y ago35:55

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In this episode we meet another podcaster! We hear his story about why he does what he does, how he feels about being on the listening end of other stories and some of the challenges he's overcome along the way. Some heavy topics come up in this episode, including suicide, alcoholism and gaming addiction. We discuss parental love and rejection. The…

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Advent thoughts: Prayer in the darkness 21:16

2y ago21:16

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How do you pray in a way that actually helps when things are difficult? What kind of prayer helps us to walk through the difficult times? You can find a transcript of this episode here. For information about stuff connected with the podcast, go to lovedcalledgifted.com Contact us at lovedcalledgifted@gmail.com or via the website. Happy listening!…

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Finding Silence (or not...) A conversation with Hannah Lamberth 32:51

2y ago32:51

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In this episode, Catherine meets Hannah; they discuss retreats and silence, noise and parenting, and faith in the midst of actual life. You can find a full transcript of this episode here. The Loved Called Gifted website is full of information and resources that you might quite like, or even find useful. Why not have a nosey?…

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Cathy’s Story: Being Guy’s Mum - the joys and challenges of Special Needs parenting 56:14

2y ago56:14

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There are two Cathys in this episode! Our host, Catherine Cowell, is joined by her friend Cathy, who shares her journey so far being Mum to her son Guy. A journey of small birth weight and inducement, of a traumatic birth story and the NICU. A story of breathing problems (bronchiolitis) and late night trips to hospital. Of metopic synostosis/fused …

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Introverts and Extroverts: Understanding Personality Part 2 40:29

2y ago40:29

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Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It’s not always as obvious as you’d think. This is the second episode focusing on personality. Catherine and Polly discuss the difference between extraversion and introversion and how our preferences affect how we relax and restore our energy, the way we communicate with others and how our sensory environment a…

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Alanna’s Story 22:41

2y ago22:41

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Alanna has created a sacred space, a sanctuary in the Staffordshire countryside where people come to be heard, to take a breather from the challenges of their lives, to be cherished for an hour. Oh. And to get a really good haircut. Alanna has been a hairdresser since she was 16. She shares about how her faith, her love for people and her talent fo…

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Understanding Personality - Part One: Why might you be interested in Myers Briggs? 23:07

2y ago23:07

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This conversation between Catherine and Polly (aka Pauline Cooke) is all about personality. You might have heard of the Myers Briggs personality tool. You might think it's great or you might be a bit sceptical. We like it because it gives all sorts of insights into how we work and how we're different from one another. All of that helps us to unders…

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Being, Doing and Self Worth 18:55

2y ago18:55

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Where does your self worth come from? We all need to know that we have value. Culturally, most of the messages we get tell us that our value derives from what we do. But is that the best way to look at things? This episode takes a critical look at how we view worth and introduces the cycles of being and doing. For a transcript of this episode to se…

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