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In this episode, somatic therapist Kate Daisy Grant shares her wisdom on how to navigate the darker months and the lost art of hibernation.

She talks about using somatic resources such as the imagination, visualisation and body awareness to feel more wellness and comfort during the winter.

Kate Daisy Grant is a musician and a somatic psychotherapist and coach. She combines arts with somatics whenever possible, and has produced an album ‘Lullaby’ which weaves together over 100 world folk lullabies in harmony to emphasise our interconnectedness, as well as a sonic experience of Polyvagal Theory.

Kate's new project ‘The Aliveness Lab’ is a collaboration with somatic coach, educator and artist Rachel Blackman and shares easy-to-use embodied experiences to enhance goodness and offer resource to the heart of life’s challenges. Together they are embarking on a series of seasonally-linked somatic workshops.

Kate’s music is found at: www.katedaisygrant.com

Therapeutic coaching here: www.somaticdepthcoaching.com

The Aliveness Lab instagram is: @aliveness.lab

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In this episode, Cate hears from Francis Lickerish about addiction. He speaks about his work helping the families of addicts with learning how to set boundaries and reclaiming their lives.

Francis is a respected professional with 30 years’ experience working in the fields of adult addiction and family services and has run family programmes for notable treatment centres across the UK. He has also worked globally, establishing family programmes in the Middle East, Pakistan, and South Africa. He runs workshops in schools and colleges on the nature of addiction and how it impacts on, and can be managed in, such systems. He sees addiction as a systemic condition that has its roots in society and history.

He is also a well-known composer and guitarist and believes that it is these skills that allow him to see beneath the surface of things and work in an organic and all-encompassing way.

Francis is currently working on a PhD and is writing a book on the historical and social context of addiction.

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In this episode, Cate speaks to Wendy Sullivan and Paul Field about Clean Language, a process and set of questions developed by counselling psychologist David Grove. They explore the simple art of Clean Language and how it helps people to go deep into themselves and find the richness of their own metaphors, words and sensations that become resources for their lives.

Wendy Sullivan is a Clean Language Trainer, Psychotherapist, Coach and Coach Supervisor. She has worked in the field of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling for around 20 years and is one of the most experienced trainers in the field. As well as training others to use Clean Language, she uses it herself when working as a coach or psychotherapist, facilitating teams and working with all sizes of organisations and businesses.

Dr Paul Field is a certified Clean Facilitator, Clean Trainer and Clean Assessor. He’s a speaker at international conferences and innovator of new techniques in Clean Language, including Modeller’s Mind, Embodied Clean, The Binds Process and Persona Modelling. He has a specialist practice using Clean, embodiment, bodywork and trauma-informed approaches to help women reconnect to their bodies and sexuality, particularly after sexual or emotional trauma. You can find out more about this work at his website: https://awakenthewoman.co.uk

You can find out more about Clean Language at the website www.cleanchange.co.uk or in the books Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds or Clean Language Interviewing⁠.

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Matt and Sarah Davies are the authors of You, Me and the Space Between Us: How to (Re)Build Your Relationship, a guidebook for how to create a healthy, loving and lasting relationship.

In this podcast episode, Matt and Sarah talk about their journey of writing the book and insights from their own relationship. Listen in for a fascinating discussion about courage, vulnerability, deal-breakers and the ups and downs of marriage.

Matt Davies is a marriage counsellor and psychosexual and relationship therapist, trained at Tavistock Relationships and worked in two NHS settings.

Sarah Davies is a movement and somatic coach, trainer and a founding member of Open Floor movement practice. 

Matt and Sarah Davies blend therapeutic techniques with movement in workshops on sexuality and relationships. They see clients together in relationship therapy sessions as well as each having their own practice in London and Sussex.

Get the book at mattandsarahdavies.co.uk

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In this episode Cate Mackenzie chats with Karis McLaughlin about the ins and outs of dating.

Cate is a love coach who supports individuals to build their confidence in dating so that it becomes easy, relaxed and fun!

She recommends focusing on yourself and your own sensuality and fun, which lifts you up and makes you more magnetic to other people.

The conversation also covers what groups and activities ideal for meeting new people, a warning about emitting just ‘friend’ signals, and a protocol for first dates.

The key is to keep dating light and playful.

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Esther Freud is the author of nine novels, including Hideous Kinky, her semi-autobiographical debut, which tells of her unconventional childhood in Morocco. In this podcast episode, she speaks about I Couldn’t Love You More, the story of three generations of Irish women and their intertwining lives. The book speaks to relationship, love and expectation, as well as managing desperation, fear and hopelessness.

Esther is a wonderfully in-depth person to listen to and speak to. Enjoy!

Get the book I Couldn’t Love You More on Amazon.

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