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
17 episodes
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?
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Episode 17
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5:03
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 successf...
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Episode 16
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6:07
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!
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Episode 15
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2:50
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.
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Episode 14
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7:55
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?...
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Episode 13
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3:05
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?
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Episode 12
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7:31
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.
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Episode 11
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2:31
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.
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Episode 10
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4:17
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?
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Episode 9
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6:48
8 – Live Larger
Are you wondering why you are so uninspired?Slip out of your anxious smallness and live larger.
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Episode 8
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4:08
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 t...
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Episode 7
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7:28
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.
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Episode 6
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2:46
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
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Episode 5
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5:00
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 t...
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Episode 4
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7:24
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 ...
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Episode 3
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6:13