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A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
A Cup of Cold Water is a 5 minute podcast that will nourish and refresh you each week with wisdom poetry, inspirational essays, life lessons, sage advice, and spiritual encouragement. Polly Castor, your host, is an artist, poet, and spiritual healer.
Episodes
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
34-Some Questions
Asking good questions is important. Here are some to examine, think about, and answer. Consider writing out answers in a journal. Have your answers to the…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
33 - I'm a Vehicle
I'm in service to a higher idea, that makes the plan, and does the doing. I'm open to being utilized, ready to trust the process, and function seamlessly. My…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
32 - Circulation of Ideas
Are you experiencing the ceaseless outpouring of infinite good? Are you accessing the divine economy of liquid recycled currency? Are you enjoying the equality…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
31 - Getting Rid of Bland Denials of Truth
Do you notice the fallacious claims you inadvertently give voice to? Are you aware how much you thwart yourself with mistaken assertions? Do you predict or…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
30 – Small Talk is too Small
How do you have more meaningful conversations? What are some better questions to ask than the surface ones? Would you rather really get to know someone? Here…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
29 - Finding Margin
Do you relish the feeling of empty? Can you stop craving anything that's superfluous? Do you feel the expansive feeling of being all poured out? Polly Castor…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
28 - For Improved Relationships Shine
Let the contemplation of this metaphor free up your human relationships. Can you trust all others to God and focus on what your are about? Learn to love with a…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
27 - No Agenda
Can you simply listen with no agenda? Are you flexible and content when plans change? Are you unhurried, calm, and savoring each morsel of life as it comes?…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
26 - Daily Routine
Have you mastered a standard morning routine? Have you scheduled in the blessing of a stable baseline with which to start your day? Polly Castor is an artist…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
25 - You Were Never Unwanted
Do you own how pivotal you are to God? Do you realize how essential, needed, and approved of you are? Do you know that you are the best part of the fiber of…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
24 - Outsmarting Inertia and Overcoming Avoidance
Do you get frozen when you are out of your depth? Is your self talk helping you, or do you need to change your inner conversation? How do you get moving on…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
23- Compassion Not Criticism
Do you think you are being righteous or helpful when you criticize? What would the world be like with only compassion instead of criticism? Can you see that…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
17 - 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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…
- A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
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…