A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:31:06 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2450562 en-us © 2026 A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement yes 051b10a4-cb33-58a0-85f1-1ff948901f18 Polly Castor episodic false 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.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Polly Castor https://storage.buzzsprout.com/r8e3rz84eptta1rpvow8jagkug5y?.jpg A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement https://www.buzzsprout.com/2450562 86 - Being a Guest is an Art Form 86 - Being a Guest is an Art Form Do you know how to be a good guest?

Do you understand that hosting and being a guest is a two way street?

What can you do to make your visit more harmonious?

Are you being considerate of your host?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Do you know how to be a good guest?

Do you understand that hosting and being a guest is a two way street?

What can you do to make your visit more harmonious?

Are you being considerate of your host?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/86 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19731524 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0400 273 how to be a good guest full false 85- Some Advice on Getting Things Done 85- Some Advice on Getting Things Done Are you procrastinating?

Do you walk around under a black cloud of what you have yet to do?

Are you waiting for motivation or inspiration?

Are things piling up and you are getting behind?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Are you procrastinating?

Do you walk around under a black cloud of what you have yet to do?

Are you waiting for motivation or inspiration?

Are things piling up and you are getting behind?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/85 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19660787 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0400 237 tips for getting things done, overcoming procrastination 85 full false 84 - For an Audience of One and the Desire for Validation 84 - For an Audience of One and the Desire for Validation Do you do things based on what others think of you?

Do their opinions matter to you too much?

Who is watching you and does it matter?

Is it better to align with high ideals instead?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Do you do things based on what others think of you?

Do their opinions matter to you too much?

Who is watching you and does it matter?

Is it better to align with high ideals instead?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/84 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19660757 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0400 343 audience of One, desire for validation 84 full false 83 - Soul Spreads its Wings 83 - Soul Spreads its Wings Have you ever though about what Soul is doing?

How do Soul's actions affect you?

Do you feel protected, inspired, and safe tucked up under Soul's wings?

If you understand better what Soul is, to you think you'd understand yourself better as Soul's reflection?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Have you ever though about what Soul is doing?

How do Soul's actions affect you?

Do you feel protected, inspired, and safe tucked up under Soul's wings?

If you understand better what Soul is, to you think you'd understand yourself better as Soul's reflection?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/83 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19626452 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0400 206 understanding soul, what is soul doing, safe with Soul, inspired by Soul 83 full false 82 - Thoughts on Envy 82 - Thoughts on Envy Are you caught on a downward spiraling loop of envy?

Can't you always find others who have what you want, even while knowing you are better off than many?

Does comparison steal your joy?

What mindset will bring you peace and progress instead?

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]]> Are you caught on a downward spiraling loop of envy?

Can't you always find others who have what you want, even while knowing you are better off than many?

Does comparison steal your joy?

What mindset will bring you peace and progress instead?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/82 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19605245 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0400 436 overcoming envy, stop comparing 82 full false 81- Your Own Devout Attention 81- Your Own Devout Attention What do you give your attention to?

Is it a conscious choice or a default one?

Are you outsourcing your life work?

Does progress to you mean doing less and less?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> What do you give your attention to?

Is it a conscious choice or a default one?

Are you outsourcing your life work?

Does progress to you mean doing less and less?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/81 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19504880 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0400 215 what to give attention to 81 full false 80 - Let Yourself Trust 80 - Let Yourself Trust Do you think you are governing your own life?

Or do you trust that God is in charge?

Do you take on the whole burden of responsibility?

Or do you think there is a larger power governing?

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]]> Do you think you are governing your own life?

Or do you trust that God is in charge?

Do you take on the whole burden of responsibility?

Or do you think there is a larger power governing?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/80 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19487946 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0400 214 let yourself trust, God large and in charge 89 full false 79 - The Ingratitude of Barren Lives 79 - The Ingratitude of Barren Lives Are you happy, active, and engaged with life?

Are you grateful and seizing the most of your opportunities?

Do you have the retirement blues?

Are you bored?

Do you need ideas for how to full your time?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Are you happy, active, and engaged with life?

Are you grateful and seizing the most of your opportunities?

Do you have the retirement blues?

Are you bored?

Do you need ideas for how to full your time?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/79 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19471547 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0400 575 barren lives, ingratitude, engage in life, ideas of how to fill your time, retirement blues, how not to be bored 79 full false 78 - Hydrangea Resiliance 78 - Hydrangea Resiliance Do you let things beyond you wipe you out?

Do you find it hard to recover when you feel thwarted or defeated?

Are you gracious about letting go of past troubles?

Do you willingly give each day a fresh new chance?

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]]> Do you let things beyond you wipe you out?

Do you find it hard to recover when you feel thwarted or defeated?

Are you gracious about letting go of past troubles?

Do you willingly give each day a fresh new chance?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/78 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19453628 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0400 227 resiliance, metaphor for resiliance, wilting hydrangea, overcoming adversity metaphor 78 full false 77 - Compassion 77 - Compassion What is compassion?

Where does compassion come from?

Is it compassion difficult?

What are the benefits of compassion?

How does it feel to be compassionate?


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]]> What is compassion?

Where does compassion come from?

Is it compassion difficult?

What are the benefits of compassion?

How does it feel to be compassionate?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/77 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19432722 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0400 401 compassion, compassionate communities, how to express compassion 77 full false 76 - Summer Solstice 76 - Summer Solstice Do you feel the shift into summer with the longer light fulled days and balmy temperatures?

Do you feel the same about this season as you did as a child?

What epitomizes the freedom and possibility of being authentic to you?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Do you feel the shift into summer with the longer light fulled days and balmy temperatures?

Do you feel the same about this season as you did as a child?

What epitomizes the freedom and possibility of being authentic to you?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/76 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19398310 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0400 175 summer solstice, authenticity 76 full false 75 - Out on a Limb into the Next Fifteen Feet 75 - Out on a Limb into the Next Fifteen Feet Do you have the courage to do what is right for you?

Do you feel like you are going further and further out on a limb?

Can you trust the process?

How confident are you in the unknown?

Where does your security come from?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Do you have the courage to do what is right for you?

Do you feel like you are going further and further out on a limb?

Can you trust the process?

How confident are you in the unknown?

Where does your security come from?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/75 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19364537 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0400 408 trust the process, where does real security come from, going out on a limb 75 full false 74 - Receiving 74 - Receiving Are you receiving infinite, impartial supply?

Do you have everything you need?

Are you asking for more when you have not utilized what you already have?

What are you open to?

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]]> Are you receiving infinite, impartial supply?

Do you have everything you need?

Are you asking for more when you have not utilized what you already have?

What are you open to?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/74 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19290008 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0400 188 infinite supply, praying about employment, receiving good 74 full false 73 - Garbage Removal 73 - Garbage Removal Do you have garbage that needs removing?

How does it get taken away?

How does it get eliminated?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Do you have garbage that needs removing?

How does it get taken away?

How does it get eliminated?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/73 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19289968 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0400 188 spiritual garbage removal, soul poetry, getting rid of menal garbage 73 full false 72 - Indifference the Opposite of Love 72 - Indifference the Opposite of Love What happens when you don't care?

Why are you indifferent? 

How does the indifference of others make you feel?

Are you taking personal responsibility for your choices in relation to the whole?

Can love turn indifference into hope and positive action?

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]]> What happens when you don't care?

Why are you indifferent? 

How does the indifference of others make you feel?

Are you taking personal responsibility for your choices in relation to the whole?

Can love turn indifference into hope and positive action?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/72 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19218836 Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400 361 indifference opposite of Love, say no to indifference, care instead of disengege 72 full false 71 - Audition Your Thoughts 71 - Audition Your Thoughts Do you believe all your thoughts?

Do you originate your thoughts?

Are you the author of what you think?

Are you in control of your thoughts?

Are you sifting out undesirable suggestions?

Are you fostering and promoting your own mental health?

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]]> Do you believe all your thoughts?

Do you originate your thoughts?

Are you the author of what you think?

Are you in control of your thoughts?

Are you sifting out undesirable suggestions?

Are you fostering and promoting your own mental health?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/71 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19211056 Thu, 21 May 2026 06:00:00 -0400 295 don't believe everything you think, question your thoughts, wisdom poetry, choose empowering thoughts 71 full false 70 - How to Help Heal Dark Times 70 - How to Help Heal Dark Times How to we love those who seem so violent, hateful and destructive?

How can you see them as God's innocent children?

What do you do or think about them in these dark times?

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]]> How to we love those who seem so violent, hateful and destructive?

How can you see them as God's innocent children?

What do you do or think about them in these dark times?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/70 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19173841 Thu, 14 May 2026 06:00:00 -0400 300 how to heal dark times, be the healer, 70 full false 69 - Being a Parent of Adult Children 69 - Being a Parent of Adult Children What is your role with your adult children?

Is it your job to advise them?

Who is in charge of what they should modify?

What would your kids want you to do now that they are all grown up?

How can you best think of them?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> What is your role with your adult children?

Is it your job to advise them?

Who is in charge of what they should modify?

What would your kids want you to do now that they are all grown up?

How can you best think of them?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/69 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19136682 Thu, 07 May 2026 06:00:00 -0400 325 motherhood poem, relationship with adult children, empty nesting 69 full false 68 - Are You Using What You Already Know? 68 - Are You Using What You Already Know? Do you collect ideas and information without doing anything with it?

Do you realize getting inspiration is not an end in itself?

What good are intentions without action?

Are you using what you already have?

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]]> Do you collect ideas and information without doing anything with it?

Do you realize getting inspiration is not an end in itself?

What good are intentions without action?

Are you using what you already have?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/68 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19098931 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400 291 take action, put it into practice, do it, try it, intentions or action 68 full false 67 - Casting Down Imaginations 67 - Casting Down Imaginations What are you envisioning? Success or failure?

Is imagination good or bad?

Is what you are imagining productive or detrimental?


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]]> What are you envisioning? Success or failure?

Is imagination good or bad?

Is what you are imagining productive or detrimental?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/67 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19063166 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400 212 casting down imaginations, is imagination good or bad 67 full false 66 - Spring Morning After Rain 66 - Spring Morning After Rain Do you feel like a watered garden?

Does your soul feel moist, nourished, and ready to grow?

Do you feel deeply cared for?

Are your needs fulfilled, nurtured, and hydrated with living water?

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]]> Do you feel like a watered garden?

Does your soul feel moist, nourished, and ready to grow?

Do you feel deeply cared for?

Are your needs fulfilled, nurtured, and hydrated with living water?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/66 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-19022401 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400 191 like a watered garden, soul nourishing, living water, spring poem 66 full false 65 - A New Definition of Trauma 65 - A New Definition of Trauma Can you relate to having been traumatized?

Have your needs sometimes not been met humanly?

Is all trauma malicious?

Does God heal trauma?

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]]> Can you relate to having been traumatized?

Have your needs sometimes not been met humanly?

Is all trauma malicious?

Does God heal trauma?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/65 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18983850 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400 254 definition of trauma, overcoming trauma, God heals trauma 65 full false 64 - What Cross Will We Hang From? 64 - What Cross Will We Hang From? Is the world already saved or do we have a part to play in it?

What will avert mass destruction?

Should we just allow unGodlike forces to kill all that is good?

Why do we not work harder against mass destruction?

How do we bring peace on earth?


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]]> Is the world already saved or do we have a part to play in it?

What will avert mass destruction?

Should we just allow unGodlike forces to kill all that is good?

Why do we not work harder against mass destruction?

How do we bring peace on earth?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/64 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18931953 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400 214 bringing peace on earth, avoiding mass destruction, collective cruxifiction, be the hope for the world 64 full false 63- Constraints are a Catalyst for Creativity 63- Constraints are a Catalyst for Creativity Do endless possibilities bewilder you?

Do you chafe at restrictions?

What can you do within the constraints you are faced with?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Do endless possibilities bewilder you?

Do you chafe at restrictions?

What can you do within the constraints you are faced with?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/63 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18883949 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0400 185 creative constraints, catalyst for creativity 63 full false 62 - A Voice Crying in the Wilderness 62 - A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Are you a champion of healing and helping, civility and respect?

How do I love radically enough to stop racism, theocracy, elitism, and chauvinism?

How do I support women and the marginalized?

I follow a Jesus that let others kill him, rather than ever be an aggressor. 

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Are you a champion of healing and helping, civility and respect?

How do I love radically enough to stop racism, theocracy, elitism, and chauvinism?

How do I support women and the marginalized?

I follow a Jesus that let others kill him, rather than ever be an aggressor. 

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

]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/62 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18837739 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0400 274 voice crying in the wilderness, stop racism, champion civility, support women, stop war 62 full false 61 - Use What You Already Know 61 - Use What You Already Know Is doing more potent than knowing more or obtaining more?

Is inspiration an end in itself?

Are you always scrambling after new information, a different opportunity, or change for the sake of change?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Is doing more potent than knowing more or obtaining more?

Is inspiration an end in itself?

Are you always scrambling after new information, a different opportunity, or change for the sake of change?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/61 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18757012 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0400 279 use what you know, do more, enough information 61 full false 60 - Beyond Selfie Culture to a More Balanced Self-expression 60 - Beyond Selfie Culture to a More Balanced Self-expression Are you looking for external validation?

Have you learned the freedom of only looking for internal validation?

Have you found your unique and precious identity within?

Conformity to someone else's ideal should never be the goal.


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Are you looking for external validation?

Have you learned the freedom of only looking for internal validation?

Have you found your unique and precious identity within?

Conformity to someone else's ideal should never be the goal.


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/60 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18757003 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0500 383 internal validation, your own high ideal, your identity within 60 full false 59 - Call to Action 59 - Call to Action Are you just a spectator in your life?

What are you becoming?

Are you born to bless and give graciously to others?

Are you loitering on the fringes of life?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Are you just a spectator in your life?

What are you becoming?

Are you born to bless and give graciously to others?

Are you loitering on the fringes of life?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/59 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18671551 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0500 298 meaningful action, bless and give, seize the day 59 full false 58 - More Than the Slightest Ways 58 - More Than the Slightest Ways What are some other ways to pray besides thoughts and words?

Do you pray with your deeds and your outlook?

How about putting prayer in action?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> What are some other ways to pray besides thoughts and words?

Do you pray with your deeds and your outlook?

How about putting prayer in action?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/58 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18671548 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0500 246 prayer in action, deeds of prayer, prayer beyond words 58 full false 57 - Reframe that Broken Heart 57 - Reframe that Broken Heart Are you broken hearted?

Do you think you are to carry a load regarding their actions?

How can you care for yourself better?

Can you reframe how you identify your heart?

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]]> Are you broken hearted?

Do you think you are to carry a load regarding their actions?

How can you care for yourself better?

Can you reframe how you identify your heart?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/57 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18592510 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0500 205 broken hearted, self care, reframe 57 full false 56 - Tips on How to Say No to Others 56 - Tips on How to Say No to Others How do you be nice and helpful, as well as avoid conflict, while still saying no?

Is it possible to say no in ways that build bridges more than tear them down?

Can you decline the task, without rejecting the person who is doing the asking?

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]]> How do you be nice and helpful, as well as avoid conflict, while still saying no?

Is it possible to say no in ways that build bridges more than tear them down?

Can you decline the task, without rejecting the person who is doing the asking?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/56 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18592247 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0500 304 How to say no 56 full false 55 - Lean on the Infinite 55 - Lean on the Infinite Do you feel like you are doing today all by yourself?

Have you tried leaning on the infinite?

Do you have rapport with it?

Are you leaning with expectancy?

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]]> Do you feel like you are doing today all by yourself?

Have you tried leaning on the infinite?

Do you have rapport with it?

Are you leaning with expectancy?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/55 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18521687 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500 260 lean on the infinite, today's blessings, not doing it all by yourself 55 full false 54 - Winter Blessing 54 - Winter Blessing Can you enjoy hunkering down?

Are you harnessing this precious inward time?

Are you seizing the blessing of this fleeting season?

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]]> Can you enjoy hunkering down?

Are you harnessing this precious inward time?

Are you seizing the blessing of this fleeting season?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/54 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18521682 Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500 188 winter blessing, hunkering down, cold snowy day, winter poem 54 full false 53 - Between Aspiration and Realization 53 - Between Aspiration and Realization Do you follow the Ten Commandments perfectly?

Have you actually endeavored to reach any high goal?

What does it take to realize your aspirations?

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]]> Do you follow the Ten Commandments perfectly?

Have you actually endeavored to reach any high goal?

What does it take to realize your aspirations?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/53 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18481473 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500 362 realize aspirations, reaching high goals, following the Ten Commandments, striving 53 full false 52 - Measuring by Degrees 52 - Measuring by Degrees How do you measure what counts?

Are you measuring up?

Are you better than yesterday?


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]]> How do you measure what counts?

Are you measuring up?

Are you better than yesterday?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/52 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18465403 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500 175 measuring up 52 full false 51 - Resolutions: Up to or Out from? 51 - Resolutions: Up to or Out from? Are you making New Year's resolutions?

How will you keep them if you do?

Is there a better way?

Can an enlightened spiritual view of yourself bring about radical change?

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]]> Are you making New Year's resolutions?

How will you keep them if you do?

Is there a better way?

Can an enlightened spiritual view of yourself bring about radical change?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/51 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18433130 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500 386 Effective Resolutions, Spiritual Approach to Resolutions, New Year's Resolutions, Self Improvement 51 full false 50 - Welcome (a Christmas Poem) 50 - Welcome (a Christmas Poem) Merry Christmas!

What is reborn in your heart today?

Who has been sent to us?

Don't humble beginnings have the grandest portent?


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]]> Merry Christmas!

What is reborn in your heart today?

Who has been sent to us?

Don't humble beginnings have the grandest portent?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/50 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18407649 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0500 159 reborn in your heart, grand portent, humble beginnings, Christmas poem 50 full false 49 - God Knows What You Need 49 - God Knows What You Need What is your right place?

Who is a blessing for you to be with?

What is your best employment?

Who governs the combination of ideas?

How are your needs met?

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]]> What is your right place?

Who is a blessing for you to be with?

What is your best employment?

Who governs the combination of ideas?

How are your needs met?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/49 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18376182 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0500 258 God knows what you need 49 full false 48 - Advent : A Puzzle of Waiting 48 - Advent : A Puzzle of Waiting Are you surprised by grace in all its mercy and power?

Are you holding your breath this season?

Are you waiting for the pieces to fall into place and for the picture to become clear?

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]]> Are you surprised by grace in all its mercy and power?

Are you holding your breath this season?

Are you waiting for the pieces to fall into place and for the picture to become clear?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/48 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18294679 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0500 206 advent, season of waiting, puzzle pieces 48 full false 47 - I am not the Source 47 - I am not the Source What is your first thought in the morning?

Do you think you are self-made?

Arn't you grateful you can trust something higher and more enlightened than any of us?

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]]> What is your first thought in the morning?

Do you think you are self-made?

Arn't you grateful you can trust something higher and more enlightened than any of us?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/47 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18294356 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0500 373 I am not the source, trust something higher, first thought of the morning 47 full false 46 - Psalm of Thanksgiving and Praise 46 - Psalm of Thanksgiving and Praise Are you grateful for God?

For hands and eyes, for sun and sea?

I'm grateful for you!

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]]> Are you grateful for God?

For hands and eyes, for sun and sea?

I'm grateful for you!

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/46 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18260157 Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0500 231 Thanksgiving Praise, Psalm of Thanksgiving 46 full false Friendship as Witness Friendship as Witness Are you grateful for your friendships?

Do you invest in your friends and really witness to who they are?

Do your friends make you feel seen?

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]]> Are you grateful for your friendships?

Do you invest in your friends and really witness to who they are?

Do your friends make you feel seen?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/45 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18218531 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0500 211 friendship as witness, gratitude for friends 45 full false 44 – Quieting Mental Chatter 44 – Quieting Mental Chatter Do you have mental chatter going on all the time?

Do you want a quieter thought?

Do you need a few pointers on how to bring stillness to the internal noise?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Do you have mental chatter going on all the time?

Do you want a quieter thought?

Do you need a few pointers on how to bring stillness to the internal noise?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/44 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18179744 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0500 560 mental chatter, how to quiet your thought, how to stop mental noise 44 full false 43 - Bonding and Balance 43 - Bonding and Balance How do you gain stability?

What brings you balance?

How do you find your completeness?

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]]> How do you gain stability?

What brings you balance?

How do you find your completeness?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/43 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18139833 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0500 181 finding balance, bonding brings balance, finding your completeness 43 full false A God I Can Believe In A God I Can Believe In Are you an atheist?  Do you reject concepts of God?

Or do you have a God you believe in?

What is God but your estimation of what is supreme and ultimate.

How did you arrive at your concept of God?



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]]> Are you an atheist?  Do you reject concepts of God?

Or do you have a God you believe in?

What is God but your estimation of what is supreme and ultimate.

How did you arrive at your concept of God?



Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/42 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18100217 Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:00:00 -0400 438 concept of God, a God I can believe in, what is God, are you an atheist 42 full false 41 – Half Past October 41 – Half Past October Are you appreciate every season of the year?

Do you dread winter? 

Are you noticing what is special around you right now?

Let's be mindful of all the good present!

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]]> Are you appreciate every season of the year?

Do you dread winter? 

Are you noticing what is special around you right now?

Let's be mindful of all the good present!

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/41 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-18052654 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:00:00 -0400 175 appreciate seasons, mindfulness of good, October, Fall poetry 41 full false 40 - I Don't Believe in Drudgery 40 - I Don't Believe in Drudgery Just because your hands are in the dish water does your mind need to be?

Do you choose to let things be dull, drab, or boring?

Are you trudging and toiling up a mountain of chores?

Do you let joy take over instead?

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]]> Just because your hands are in the dish water does your mind need to be?

Do you choose to let things be dull, drab, or boring?

Are you trudging and toiling up a mountain of chores?

Do you let joy take over instead?

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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/40 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17985530 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:00:00 -0400 187 drudgery, positive attitude towards chores 40 full false 39 - Can We? 39 - Can We? Can we throw inertia off?

Can we figure out what we want?

Can we chunk it down and start?

Can we get moving towards it?

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]]> Can we throw inertia off?

Can we figure out what we want?

Can we chunk it down and start?

Can we get moving towards it?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/39 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17979879 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:00:00 -0400 257 can we throw off inertia, can we get moving, can we start 39 full false 38 – Ambition vs. Dominion 38 – Ambition vs. Dominion Do you think ambition is a good thing?

Is there a better way to accomplish success?

Was Jesus ambitious?

What can pursuing dominion do for you?

What can a Godlike outlook do for you?


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]]> Do you think ambition is a good thing?

Is there a better way to accomplish success?

Was Jesus ambitious?

What can pursuing dominion do for you?

What can a Godlike outlook do for you?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/38 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17938586 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:00:00 -0400 303 is ambition good, was Jesus ambitious, ambition vs. dominion, how to be successful 38 full false 37 – Be Satisfied Now 37 – Be Satisfied Now Are you looking at the past with regret or wistfulness?

Or are you looking at the future with longing or trepidation?

Is God doing these things?

How can you be satisfied now?

And what is eternity anyway?

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]]> Are you looking at the past with regret or wistfulness?

Or are you looking at the future with longing or trepidation?

Is God doing these things?

How can you be satisfied now?

And what is eternity anyway?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/37 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17898185 Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0400 245 eternal now, be satisfied, how to be satisfied, live in the present moment 37 full false 36-Noticing Good 36-Noticing Good Do you realize when notice good, you can't feel bad?

The human mind can hold only one thought at a time.

So how much good can you notice?

Try it right now, and now, and now...


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]]> Do you realize when notice good, you can't feel bad?

The human mind can hold only one thought at a time.

So how much good can you notice?

Try it right now, and now, and now...


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/36 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17763859 Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0400 279 notice good, focus on good, 36 full false 35-Treasure in Heaven 35-Treasure in Heaven What does the sermon on the mount mean when it says lay up your treasures in heaven?

What is heaven, anyway?

Are answers in more or better materiality?

Are harmony and bliss possible?

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]]> What does the sermon on the mount mean when it says lay up your treasures in heaven?

What is heaven, anyway?

Are answers in more or better materiality?

Are harmony and bliss possible?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/35 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17763858 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0400 395 treasure in heaven, what is heaven, harmony and bliss 35 full false 34-Some Questions 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 questions changed over time?

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]]> 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 questions changed over time?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/34 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17763854 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0400 236 ask good questions, journal answers, what do you think 34 full false 33 - I'm a Vehicle 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 engine is ready to roar into action.

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]]> 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 engine is ready to roar into action.

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/33 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17638288 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:00:00 -0400 139 vehicle metaphor, in service to a higher idea, being utilized, being of service 33 full false 32 - Circulation of Ideas 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 of demand meeting supply?

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]]> Are you experiencing the ceaseless outpouring of infinite good?

Are you accessing the divine economy of liquid recycled currency?

Are you enjoying the equality of demand meeting supply?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/32 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17638285 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:00:00 -0400 175 demand equals supply, circulation of ideas, divine economy, infinite good 32 full false 31 - Getting Rid of Bland Denials of Truth 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 expect error or downward spiraling?

Are torn down or distracted by minor false beliefs?

Abolishing these irritating wrong beliefs is very beneficial!

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]]> 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 expect error or downward spiraling?

Are torn down or distracted by minor false beliefs?

Abolishing these irritating wrong beliefs is very beneficial!

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/31 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17638274 Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:00:00 -0400 350 bland denials of truth, stop the false beliefs, remove mistaken assertions, watch what you give voice to 31 full false 30 – Small Talk is too Small 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 are some ideas to get you started.

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]]> 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 are some ideas to get you started.

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/30 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17601158 Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:00:00 -0400 243 having more meaningful conversations, better questions to ask, getting to know someone, small talk 30 full false 29 - Finding Margin 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?

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]]> 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 is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/29 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154552 Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0400 173 no agenda, learn to relax, stop craving, feeling expansive 29 full false 28 - For Improved Relationships Shine 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 universal, noble love, connected with your source.


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]]> 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.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/28 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154545 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0400 380 Improved relationships, trust others to God, learn to love 28 full false 27 - No Agenda 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?

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]]> 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.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/27 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154541 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0400 209 no agenda, simply listen, savor life, be unhurried, be content 27 full false 26 - Daily Routine 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, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> Have you mastered a standard morning routine?

Have you scheduled in the blessing of a stable baseline with which to start your day?

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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/26 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154535 Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0400 242 morning routine, daily routine, blessings of routinr 26 full false 25 - You Were Never Unwanted 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 forever?

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]]> 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.
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Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/25 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154532 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0400 279 never unwanted, feeling unwanted, God needs you 25 full false 24 - Outsmarting Inertia and Overcoming Avoidance 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 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.
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]]> 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: PollyCastor.com
Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/24 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154528 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0400 457 overcoming inertia, overcoming procrastination, be a super hero, overcoming avoidance 24 full false 23- Compassion Not Criticism 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 others are dealing with more than you understand?

Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/23 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154524 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0400 197 Compassion not criticism, criticism is not righteous, what are others dealing with 23 full false 22 - Like a Peony 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 an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> 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.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/22 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154518 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0400 181 like a peony, peony poem, poetry by Polly Castor 22 full false 21 - Where Sheep May Safely Graze 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.
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]]> 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.
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/21 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154515 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0400 224 divine shepherd, sheep as metaphor, shepherding humanity 21 full false 20-Respond Instead of React 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/20 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154509 Thu, 29 May 2025 06:00:00 -0400 497 respond instead of react, avoid being reactionary, responding instead of reacting, flying off the handle, how to stop reacting, why stop reacting 20 full false 19-The Panoply of Love 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.
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Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/19 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154502 Thu, 22 May 2025 06:00:00 -0400 199 panoply of Love, safety from hatred, how not to be vulnerable, wisdom poetry, poetry by Polly Castor 19 full false 18- Where is Your Third Place? 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.
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Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/18 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17154488 Thu, 15 May 2025 06:00:00 -0400 272 third place, a sense of belonging, know and be known, social health 18 full false 17 - Our Mother Which Art in Heaven 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 Father?

What kind of relationship with God is most useful to you?


Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/17 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17120594 Thu, 08 May 2025 06:00:00 -0400 303 God as Mother, Lord's Prayer, Father Mother God, Polly Castor 17 full false 16-The Wisdom of Plants 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.
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]]> 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: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/16 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-17044476 Thu, 01 May 2025 06:00:00 -0400 367 wisdom of plants, plants teach us, emulating plants, poetry about nature, value yourself regardless of what others say 16 full false 15 - Muddy 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/15 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16982818 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0400 170 muddled, muddling, feeling stuck, poem 15 full false 14-Resurrection a Reminder of Hope and Renewal 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/14 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16982624 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0400 475 resurrection, easter, hope and renewal 14 full false 13 – Discipline 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
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/13 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16756584 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0400 185 definition of discipline, discipline friend or foe, discipline empowers, better sense of discipline discipline poem, managing yourself 13 full false 12 – Silence Your Inner Critic 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/12 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16756578 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0400 451 negative chatter, self talk, silence the inner critic, critical of self, inner critic 12 full false 11 – Not Disconnected 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/11 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16756575 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0400 151 alone, disconnected, left out, poetry metaphor, feeling isolated, fragmentary ideas 11 full false 10 – Joy Is an Act of Resistance 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/10 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16756568 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0400 257 effective resistance, amplifying good, joy resistance, poetry, poem 10 full false 9 – How to Overcome Regret 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/9 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16721083 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0400 408 overcome regret, forgive yourself, reframe the past, let it go 9 full false 8 – Live Larger 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/8 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16721075 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0500 248 live larger, uninspired, 8 full false 7 – Freedom from Yourself 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.
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Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> 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

]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/7 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16691421 Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:00:00 -0500 448 living in the present, freedom from the past, unselfed better self, how do you identify yourself 7 full false 6 – Employ Courage 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/6 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16619751 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 06:00:00 -0500 166 getting courage, get courage, 6 full false 5 – I Am From 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
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]]> 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

]]> https://www.acupofcoldwater.com/5 Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16586841 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:00:00 -0500 300 background story, Polly Castor 5 full false 4 – From Atheism to Believing in Divine Love 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.
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Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> 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
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]]> Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16586788 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:00:00 -0500 444 spiritual encouragement, life lessons, finding God, God as Love 4 full false 3 – Cross Pollinating and Butterfly Chasing 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16586644 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:00:00 -0500 373 life lessons. inspirational essays, chasing butterflies 3 full false 2 – 25 Life Lessons 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.
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]]> 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
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]]> Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16586591 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:00:00 -0500 291 life lessons, 25 life lessons, sage advice 2 full false 1 – Giving a Cup of Cold Water 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: PollyCastorArt.com
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]]> 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: PollyCastorArt.com
Contact her here

]]> Polly Castor Buzzsprout-16586441 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:00:00 -0500 237 widsom poetry, a cup of cold water, cup of cold water 1 full false