The Sunday Soother
Welcome to a podcast all about authentic living, compassionate, personal development, and practical spirituality, geared towards the highly sensitive person. Catherine Andrews, the author of the popular Sunday Soother newsletter, discusses topics like self-worth, boundaries, emotional intelligence, ritual, spiritual and energy work done accessibly, and more. If you're interested in knowing yourself more deeply, living your life more magically, and growing as a person with space for wisdom and compassion along the way, this is for you. The podcast comes out every Sunday morning.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 266
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
104: 3 reasons sensitive women get stuck in "the gray fog" and how to move forward
In today's episode, I revisit the concept of "the gray fog" from episode 103, and I help you understand 3 ways you might have gotten there. I also help you understand why, as a sensitive person, you …
103: The gray fog: what it is, and how sensitive women get stuck there
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 fe…
102: The importance of preventative nervous system care
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 wit…
101: A trick for overcoming self-doubt and negative thoughts
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 f…
100: My philosophy of personal transformation: the forest, the meadow, and the river of misery
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.
Man…
99: How to change your negative thoughts as a sensitive person
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 lif…
98: Two truths about growth and healing
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…
97: What your identity has to do with starting your own business
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 somethi…
96: What even is a spiritual awakening?
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.
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95: Myths and misconceptions about your life purpose
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…
94: How do you learn to trust?
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 S…
93: 5 reasons spirituality can support sensitive people
As I enroll for Practical Spirituality, my latest course, I discuss the several ways in which spirituality has supported my growth as a sensitive person, and if you are curious, how it could help you…
91: The relationship I've been avoiding
Every week, I read my Sunday Soother newsletter as a bonus podcast episode. In today's episode, I discuss my relationship with my inner child that I am beginning to develop.
I have a new course starti…
90: Why is it so hard to trust?
Every week, I read my Sunday Soother newsletter as a bonus podcast episode. In today's episode, I discuss self-trust and why I still struggle with it.
I have a new course starting April 5 2021 I'd lov…
92: Introducing my new course: Practical Spirituality!
You may know I'm a spiritual person... but I wasn't always. Just a few years ago I was an atheist, didn't know anything about Tarot or astrology, and didn't consider myself to have a life purpose, An…
89: Catching up with Catherine: A few helpful things and experiences in my life as of late!
Hi Soothers! As I spend the rest of winter running my current courses + group coaching programs I'll probably be taking a little (temporary!) break from this here podcast, so before I step back I wan…
88: On why we're so bad at grief
Every week, I read my Sunday Soother newsletter as a bonus podcast episode. In today's episode, I discuss what grief means, the different kinds of grief, and how to more fully be with and validate ou…
87: On figuring out what it means to be or have or do "enough"
Every week, I read my Sunday Soother newsletter as a bonus podcast episode. In today's episode, I discuss the inner critic and its relationship to "enoughness," and share six ways you can start to re…
86: On why it's not too late
Every week, I read my Sunday Soother newsletter as a bonus podcast episode. In today's episode, I tell you my experience of starting a business and falling in love around the age of 40, and guide you…
85: One reason why dating or relating might be so hard for you
In today's episode, I ponder the question: Why is dating actually really hard and confusing for some people? Because, it is! And it's not because anything is wrong with you.
After running my dating c…