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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
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Episodes
  • Ep 133: Childhood Trauma, Embodiment, Parental Burnout and our Nervous Systems

    Ep 133: Childhood Trauma, Embodiment, Parental Burnout and our Nervous Systems
    May 12 2025

    In this wide ranging episode Cath focuses on parental burnout and talks about how we are more vulnerable to this if we have childhood trauma and why. She references recent research into this topic discussing what it is, risk factors for parental burnout, why it matters, how we can conceive of it through a nervous system lens and how we can support ourselves.


    The link to the research discussed in the podcast, is listed below.


    Ren, X., Cai, Y., Wang, J. et al. A systematic review of parental burnout and related factors among parents. BMC Public Health 24, 376 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17829-y


    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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  • Ep 132: ADHD, Executive Functioning and Shame

    Ep 132: ADHD, Executive Functioning and Shame
    May 5 2025

    In this episode Cath shares that she received a diagnosis of ADHD and Autism in 2024 and some of the reasons she pursued this. She shared how she is integrating this and how she was tending to herself and meeting her needs ahead of the diagnosis. Cath speaks about executive functioning, what it is, how this may be a struggle and she shares specific anecdotes from her own life about needs, struggles in mothering and struggles with time blindness and how she supports and accommodates herself with these. Would you like more of this sort of content?


    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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  • Ep 131: Growing Up and Tending to Ourselves in Motherhood with Dr Jenny Turner

    Ep 131: Growing Up and Tending to Ourselves in Motherhood with Dr Jenny Turner
    Apr 28 2025

    In episode 131 of Grow Yourself Up Cath was joined by Dr. Jenny Turner. Jenny and Cath had a wide ranging and rich discussion covering the following: Jenny's path to motherhood and the birth of her son, shame, relationships, the challenges of shifting cycles in parenting, when perimenopause and postpartum collide and how we often have to dig really deep in motherhood and much more.


    Jenny is a clinical psychologist and founder of 'Mind Body Soul Psychology'. She is based in North Yorkshire, and works online with people from all over the UK. Jenny is also a mum to a four year old son.


    With an extensive NHS background in child and adolescent mental and physical health services. Jenny is now passionate about supporting Mothers, a central theme of the work she offers is how we can all get our own needs met, while we are caring for so many other people, Jenny believes that the care we receive, our boundaries, and our own healing are all fundamental to the care we offer as mothers, and to our enjoyment of the process of mothering.


    She is also passionate about helping mothers to navigate through the emotions that society too often (wrongly!) tells us 'we're not meant to feel' as Mothers, such as resentment, ambivalence, anger, rage, trauma, shame, guilt, grief, exhaustion, and burnout.


    Jenny offers integrative therapy to her clients - She draws largely on systemic, societal, psychodynamic, compassion-based and body-based, trauma-informed models (such as polyvagal theory). As well as the therapeutic model of shame-resilience developed from Brené Brown's research.


    You can connect with Jenny on her website listed here: www.mindbodysoulpsychology.co.uk


    Or, Instagram: @drjennypsychologist


    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 and 14 mins

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So so beneficial for the regular woman and mother

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.

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Fantastic and Insightful Podcast!

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

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Nourish yourself!

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

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