Polly Castor

A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement

Religion EN ↓ 78 episodes

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.

Author

Polly Castor

Category

Religion

Podcast website

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Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

28 - For Improved Relationships Shine 24.07.2025

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 universal, noble love, connected with your source. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

27 - No Agenda 17.07.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

26 - Daily Routine 10.07.2025

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, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

25 - You Were Never Unwanted 03.07.2025

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 forever? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

24 - Outsmarting Inertia and Overcoming Avoidance 26.06.2025

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 what makes you trepidatious? Have you realized yet that actually doing something you are unsure about takes way less energy than having anxiety about it? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: Poll...

23- Compassion Not Criticism 19.06.2025

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 others are dealing with more than you understand? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

22 - Like a Peony 12.06.2025

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

21 - Where Sheep May Safely Graze 05.06.2025

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

20-Respond Instead of React 29.05.2025

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

19-The Panoply of Love 22.05.2025

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

18- Where is Your Third Place? 15.05.2025

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 - Our Mother Which Art in Heaven 08.05.2025

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

16-The Wisdom of Plants 01.05.2025

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 artis...

15 - Muddy 24.04.2025

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

14-Resurrection a Reminder of Hope and Renewal 17.04.2025

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

13 – Discipline 10.04.2025

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

12 – Silence Your Inner Critic 03.04.2025

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

11 – Not Disconnected 27.03.2025

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

10 – Joy Is an Act of Resistance 20.03.2025

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

9 – How to Overcome Regret 13.03.2025

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

8 – Live Larger 06.03.2025

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

7 – Freedom from Yourself 27.02.2025

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 w...

6 – Employ Courage 20.02.2025

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

5 – I Am From 15.02.2025

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 – From Atheism to Believing in Divine Love 08.02.2025

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: PollyCas...

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