The New Sensitive

In today's episode, I give you a little catch-up on my life, how I'm navigating post-vaccine life acceleration (poorly!) and I tell about a little concept I call "the gray fog:" the state of murky fear and disconnection that sensitive women can end up in, simultaneously feeling like "I have a good life, I should feel more grateful," "And how the hell did I end up here and what can I do about it?"

Stay tuned next week where I will detail the 3 ways in which sensitive women end up in the gray fog, and give you more information about Soothe, my year-long mastermind for sensitive women.

Soothe opens for enrollment on July 1 to the public.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

Do you ever try to calm down in a moment of anxiety or anger by breathing or meditating and actually end up feeling worse? You're not alone. I see people try to take care of their nervous systems with a bandaid approach that doesn't help sustain long-term wellbeing. In today's episode I discuss what the nervous system does; its different states; how we can cultivate self-compassion by better understanding how our nervous system works; why regulating and taking care of it in a preventative, holistic and regular way is important; and share several tips for how to do that.

Sign up to be alerted about my upcoming mastermind for sensitive women, Soothe. The waitlist for that is here.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

Today I tell you a simple but powerful method for dealing with negative thoughts: the judge, the prosecution, and the public defender. It sounds silly, but it super works for me, and I hope it will for you, too.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

It's been 100 episodes of The Sunday Soother!!!

To mark this occasion, I'm sharing my philosophy and approach of personal transformation that I call the forest, the meadow, and the river of misery.

Many of us are living in a forest without realizing it. Some of us make it to out the forest only to be faced with what I call the river of misery: the difficult experience of truly going after the dreams we want, whether it's self-love, a partner, or a new career. Most people will turn back from the river of misery, assuming because, well, it's miserable, that something has gone wrong. But it hasn't. And if you can cross the river of misery, you can root and flourish in the truly beautiful meadow beyond its banks.

I learned the phrase "the river of misery" from Brooke Castillo of the Life Coach School and I forgot to credit her in the audio. ALSO I SEE A SNAKE AND I SCREAM REALLY LOUD during the recording, my apologies (I was recording outside as I am wont to do),

Finally, at the end of the podcast I tell you about my upcoming mastermind for sensitive women, Soothe. The waitlist for that is here.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

In today's podcast, I talk about thought work and self-coaching: the tools by which you can literally learn to change your negative/unsupportive/intentional thoughts to get better results in your life.

I've found these tools very powerful. But there was a steep learning curve for me in using them, and, I suspect, for other sensitive people who struggle with a larger volume of thoughts; more negative thoughts in general; and a reluctance to explore our negative thoughts.

But I want you to get the results that you desire in your life, and the more I use this model, the more I acknowledge: our results begin with our thoughts. So if we want better results, we must learn to change our thoughts.

In this episode I teach you how I have adopted and adapted thought work as a sensitive person to get great effects.  This is *not* positive thinking: this is identity and belief shifting work that can give us the life of our dreams.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

In today's brief podcast ep, I talk about two inevitable realities when it comes to your own healing and personal growth: It often really sucks and is painful for a while; and also, you don't have to wait til you're "healed" (or less anxious, or thinner, or more confident, or less wounded, or in a better job, or whatever thing you've told yourself you have to be, or solve,) to begin living your beautiful life. Do it, right now.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

In today's episode I discuss one of the reasons sensitive women overidentify with work, and why that overidentification, and lack of sense of self overall, can make it particularly hard to do something like leave your 9-5 or corporate career to work for yourself or start a business.

I'm hosting a workshop on removing blocks to entrepreneurship for sensitive women April 21, 7pmET, replay available, purchase tix here.

I'm also accepting applications for a new small group program helping sensitive women realize and begin their entrepreneurial dreams. You can read more and apply here.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

Today I discuss the concept of the spiritual awakening. What is it? How does it happen? What are its symptoms? How do you know if you are in one? And I share the story of my own spiritual awakening. 

This audio is an excerpt from a lesson in my new course, Practical Spirituality. Practical Spirituality is a 6-week course geared to help you discover your purpose and path and sustainable, grounded practices for self-reflection, connection, and greater meaning in life. Enroll here. We start April 5th.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

In today's podcast, I talk about the most common myths and misconceptions as I see them about the concept, discovery and stepping into life purpose. Helping you narrow in on your life purpose will be the theme of the first week of my new course, Practical Spirituality.

Practical Spirituality is a 6-week course geared to help you discover your purpose and path and sustainable, grounded practices for self-reflection, connection, and greater meaning in life. Enroll here. We start April 5th. Use SOOTHER for 10% off.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. 

In this episode, I answer a reader's question about how you can begin to trust in things in life again. Listen to my previous experience I reference in the podcast about Focusing here. You can find Sandy Jahmi's site here.

Practical Spirituality is a 6-week course geared to help you discover your purpose and path and sustainable, grounded practices for self-reflection, connection, and greater meaning in life. Enroll here. We start April 5th.

The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews.