The New Sensitive

I turned 40 -- and wrote 40 lessons from this side of the hill! Wisdom includes lead with your shame, why and how taking scary risks pays off, how to check your own self-limiting stories, and more (all with added real-world experiences). I also talk about new structure and workflows I'm bringing into my life and business and the evolution of the podcast.

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

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Sunday Soother Patreon
• How to create practical rituals 
• Catherine interviews Jillian Anthony of Cruel Summer Book Club
• Why can't I meditate even though I know it's good for me?

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that people are lacking a sense of the spiritual or mystical or meaning or structure in their lives today — something that the function of organized religion used to provide in society. But organized religion isn’t really a safe space for many people to turn these days — or a space where atheists or people who don’t overall believe in the common narrative of a Big White Dude God can go.

But that doesn’t mean that even the most logical or practical of us don’t crave a sense of something bigger than the daily mundane in our lives, a sense of meaning or significance that we can participate in. I know that I — somebody who doesn’t believe in the traditional sense of god or religion as it is commonly understood today — felt I was missing something along those lines. So I started creating my own sense of the sacred in my day to day life through a series of small rituals that are now the fabric on which I build my days.

And that’s what I’m talking about in today’s podcast. I go over what a modern, practical ritual can look like; how I incorporate rituals into my day-to-day life; and several suggestions and starting points for you to introduce simple rituals into your life right now. 

***Some issues with traveling, my mic & internet made the sound scratchy on this one — apologies!

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

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Sunday Soother Patreon
• Mark Groves's podcast on a breakup ceremony 
• Ronald Grimes' The Craft of Ritual Studies
• My favorite incense! 

"I set out to change the societal view of singlehood."

"Dating apps can be a form of self-harm."

"The biggest thing I have manifested is self-worth."

These are the gems that came out of my podcast interview today with Shani Silver, a writer and essayist who is creating conversations about how society views singledom, and how we can change it.

Shani and I get deep into a bunch of stuff on this episode, and I was alternating between laughing hysterically and being on the verge of tears with her insights on dating, shame, self-worth, and why we can all be doing better for ourselves.

Shani and I talk work, love, and how fear and shame plays into both; why "single girls get the couch,"; our own personal development and dating journeys, highs, lows, and everything in between; the tools we have used to up our self-worth; and Shani answers three questions from Sunday Soother readers about dating, intuition, standards, and aging as a woman today.

This is a must-listen. If you don't walk away from this episode with an entirely new perspective on dating, self-worth, and what it means to really stand up for yourself, I'll be shocked.

The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Sunday Soother Patreon
• Shani's website & writing on Refinery29
• Essay: Single Girls Get the Couch
• Shani's podcast, A Single Serving
• Human Design Charts
• Lacy Phillips' site

Hi friends! I'm taking a quick pop in here to share audio from a video I recorded for my Sunday Soother Book Club. We are reading The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, and you can join the book club group here on Facebook.

This audio goes over why I wanted to read the book; my experience in trauma; how I learned about the importance of the mind-body connection; and an overview of the first part of this seminal book on trauma, the body, and healing.

The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Catherine's coaching website
• The Sunday Soother book club group here on Facebook

In today's Sunday Soother Advicecast, Catherine discusses taking a holiday break from the podcast and the newsletter, and all the ways you can work with her in 2020 as a coach!

The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Catherine's coaching website
• One-on-one coaching program
• New managers kickstart program
• New managers group program
• Tarot readings with Catherine
• All other ways - including Clarity Calls - to work with Catherine
• Schedule a free consultation call with Catherine

In today's Sunday Soother Advicecast, Catherine interviews Jillian Anthony, author of the Cruel Sommer Book Club, a weekly newsletter about grief, loss, healing, and more. Catherine and Jillian talk about romantic grief, shame and grief, the mind-body connection in enabling healing, resources for loss, and a whole lot more.

The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Cruel Summer Book Club
• Jillian on Twitter
• Jillian on Instagram
• Catherine's Sunday Soother on stopping negative thoughts
• Pema Chodron's book, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
• Focusing in Clinical Practice
• Joan Didion's books The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights
• Link to review the Sunday Soother on iTunes
• The Sunday Soother Facebook group

In today's Sunday Soother Advicecast, Catherine talks about why it's important to set intentions that really align with who you are for the year ahead -- and her formula for doing it.

The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Link to review the Sunday Soother on iTunes
• Catherine's Morning Pages group challenge
• The Sunday Soother Facebook group

In today's Sunday Soother Advicecast, Catherine has her first-ever interview guest! Madeleine Dore, writer, creative, and force behind the popular Extraordinary Routines joins Catherine for a conversation about creativity, perfectionism, vulnerability, habits, journaling, the "shadow artist," and lots more.

The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Link to review the Sunday Soother on iTunes
• Catherine's Morning Pages group challenge
• The Extraordinary Routines site
• Madeleine's piece, "Everything I learned from (finally) completing The Artist’s Way"
• Extraordinary Routines on Instagram
• Madeleine's website
• The Artist's Way
• More on Morning Pages
• Gretchen Rubin's habit-forming quiz

In today's Sunday Soother Advicecast, Catherine answers a question from a listener who believes she's a cruel person on the inside -- and wants to change.

The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Link to review the Sunday Soother on iTunes
• Catherine's Morning Pages group challenge
• Insight Timer meditation app
• Blog post on inner child work
• The Holistic Psychologist inner child visualization
• Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford
• "What the hell are Morning Pages?" Sunday Soother podcast

In today's Sunday Soother Advicecast, Catherine answers a question from a listener who left her career field -- and isn't quite sure what to do next.

The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.

You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Link to review the Sunday Soother on iTunes
• VIA characters strength test
• Barrett Values Centre Personal Values Assessment