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Grow Yourself Up

Grow Yourself Up

By: Catherine Counihan
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Grow Yourself Up is a podcast to support all of us in our adult lives.


Many of us did not get our needs adequately met in childhood. The devastating legacy of childhood trauma, wounding and traumatic stress lives on in our brains, our bodies, our nervous systems and our behaviour/reactions. Which in turn impacts the way we turn up to our lives in many ways.


We are going to unpack all of this on Grow Yourself Up. This podcast will be a companion as you travel on your own road of healing and recovery.


You will learn you are not alone.


Someone has been where you are.


There is hope.


We will break down shame together and learn to cultivate self compassion.


There is always the possibility for change.


And regardless of what has happened in our past, as adults we have to take responsibility for our own lives. We have to tend to our pain, our sadness and our dysfunction so that we can live a life we love and shift toxic patterns for our children.


If you're enjoying this podcast. Please leave a review and rate the podcast, this really helps others to find it. To sign up for the journal prompts and Nurture.Heal.Grow (on Substack) please head to www.cathcounihan.com or @cathcounihan on Instagram.


Follow Cath on social media here:

Instagram: @cathcounihan

Substack: Nurture.Heal.Grow

Facebook: Cath Counihan


The podcast is produced each week by the wonderful Audio Café.


Thanks for listening. Cath.


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Catherine Counihan Hygiene & Healthy Living Parenting & Families Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships
Episodes
  • Ep 159: Attachment Styles, Finding our Voice, Avoidance, Grief and Growing with Anne Power

    Ep 159: Attachment Styles, Finding our Voice, Avoidance, Grief and Growing with Anne Power
    Feb 3 2026

    In this deeply touching episode Cath was joined by attachment expert and psychotherapist Anne Power. Anne shared about her own attachment journey, some of her childhood story, boarding school, brief explanations about the different attachment styles, attachment in couple relationships and attachment, grief and repair in the parent child relationship. This episode will help you feel supported and seen.


    Anne Power first qualified at The Bowlby Centre, and later trained at WPF, Tavistock Relationships and Relate. She has worked in various settings but now works online with couples and parent-with-adult-child pairs. She has written many academic papers and two books; all of these use attachment theory to understand relationships and clinical experience.

    Her book Contented Couples is based on interviews with eighteen long-term couples from different traditions, including arranged marriage. It explains couple dynamics in an accessible way and describes how partners’ complementary attachment patterns can work well together.


    Anne posts on Instagram @and_attachment with content for people who want to understand attachment in their relationships. Her TEDx talk ‘Attachment theory is the science of love’, also addresses this theme and has been watched by over a million people.


    You can watch the TEDx talk yourself by clicking here.


    Anne has also recently finished writing a novel about a couple counsellor and the diverse couples who come to see her. Do watch for news and publication of her forthcoming novel on her Instagram page, or on her website where you can also download free PDFs on attachment themes at https://www.contentedcouples.com/


    If you're enjoying this podcast. Please leave a review and rate the podcast, this really helps others to find it.


    To sign up for the journal prompts and Nurture.Heal.Grow (on Substack) please head to www.cathcounihan.com or @cathcounihan on Instagram.


    Follow Cath on social media here:

    Instagram: @cathcounihan

    Substack: Nurture.Heal.Grow

    Facebook: Cath Counihan

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    58 mins
  • Ep 158: Complex Trauma, Mother Wounds and Generational Healing with Dr Arielle Schwartz

    Ep 158: Complex Trauma, Mother Wounds and Generational Healing with Dr Arielle Schwartz
    Jan 27 2026

    In this rich and wide ranging episode Cath is joined by Dr Arielle Schwartz. We discussed Arielle's path to motherhood, mother wounds in her matrilineal line and how this impacted her childhood, ambivalence in motherhood, complex trauma, nervous system healing, vagal toning and much much more. This episode is woven with rich storytelling crossing multiple generations and offers so much hope to all of us on our own healing journeys.


    Dr. Arielle Schwartz is a clinical psychologist and leading voice in the healing of trauma. She is an internationally sought-out teacher and author of seven books including The Complex PTSD Workbook, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga. As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, she offers a mind-body approach to therapy for trauma and informational mental health and wellness updates through her writing, public speaking, social media presence, and blog. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.


    Learn more at www.drarielleschwartz.com.


    If you're enjoying this podcast. Please leave a review and rate the podcast, this really helps others to find it.


    To sign up for the journal prompts and Nurture.Heal.Grow (on Substack) please head to www.cathcounihan.com or @cathcounihan on Instagram.


    Follow Cath on social media here:

    Instagram: @cathcounihan

    Substack: Nurture.Heal.Grow

    Facebook: Cath Counihan

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr
  • Ep 157: Generational Clashes and Parenting as Gardening

    Ep 157: Generational Clashes and Parenting as Gardening
    Jan 20 2026

    In this loving and practical episode Cath responds to a listener question about how to manage generational clashes around the approach to dealing with emotions and how to start conversations around this. She reads the listener's letter and looks at the query from multiple points of view.


    Cath addresses common contexts in terms of generational patterns/clashes, points out how much new information we have these days, she addresses perfectionism, anxiety and control, different approaches we might take to addressing this, and she makes some practical suggestions to support intergenerational relationships.


    Cath speaks about parenting as gardening and uses this analogy to provide comfort and a useful framework to hold in mind as we work on shifting/breaking cycles in our families.


    The book Cath reads from is called 'The Gardener and the Carpenter' by Alison Gopnik.


    The 'Brene Brown' TED talk can be found here: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability


    If you're enjoying this podcast. Please leave a review and rate the podcast, this really helps others to find it.


    To sign up for the journal prompts and Nurture.Heal.Grow (on Substack) please head to www.cathcounihan.com or @cathcounihan on Instagram.


    Follow Cath on social media here:

    Instagram: @cathcounihan

    Substack: Nurture.Heal.Grow

    Facebook: Cath Counihan

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    50 mins
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I was going through a period of multiple stressors in life, while managing my emotional regulation and my 2 year old’s big feelings to the changes. I found myself feeling more and more depressed and depleted, lost and unsure how to get out of the rut. Along with some extra loving support, I discovered this podcast and it seems too simple, but I genuinely felt validated, understood and held, listening to some amazing insightful and passionate women speak upon their wisdom, strategies and raw humanness. It’s a beautiful podcast and I’m so grateful for the psychotherapeutic threads throughout the diverse knowledge and real experiences.

So so beneficial for the regular woman and mother

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My goodness, this has been the best podcast for me! I’m so thankful to Cath Counihan for being open, vulnerable, resourceful and kind to create something like this, where we can be ourselves, we can be authentic, honest and supportive of each other in motherhood. I can not express enough my joy and gratitude for the existence of this podcast. I’m nourished and validated hearing authentic stories of parents just like me, hope this podcast helps and supports many others! Thank you Cath, Anastasia

Nourish yourself!

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I highly recommend this podcast! I appreciate the insights that Cath shares, as well as the experiences from her own life and family. Great podcast for anyone who is interested growing in maturity, growing in their relationships, and understanding how their own family of origin and upbringing can influence how they manage relationships in the present

Fantastic and Insightful Podcast!

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