Grow Yourself Up

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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Ep 131: Growing Up and Tending to Ourselves in Motherhood with Dr Jenny Turner
Apr 28, 2025 – 1:14:04
Ep 130: Secure Attachment, Postpartum and Growing up in Motherhood with Jodi Pawluski (Re-release)
Apr 21, 2025 – 53:41
Ep 129: Healing and Breaking Cycles in Parenting with Maggie Viers (Re-release)
Apr 14, 2025 – 37:04
Ep 128: Am I Failing My Kids and Secure Attachment
Apr 7, 2025 – 51:48
Ep127: A Mother's Journey to Conscious Parenting and Parenting Teens with Yvonne Smyth (Re-release)
Mar 31, 2025 – 44:22
Ep 126: Creativity and Growing Up in Motherhood with Flora Cruft
Mar 25, 2025 – 1:12:48
Ep 125: Burnout and Parenting When Our Kids Struggle with Kendra Wilde (Re-release)
Mar 18, 2025 – 49:35
Ep 124: The Good Girl Grid and Owning our Own Motherhood Experience
Mar 11, 2025 – 21:57
Ep 123: Ancestral Healing and Wisdom, Power and Growing Up in Motherhood with Kate Merrick
Mar 4, 2025 – 1:01:16
Ep 122: Our Inner Child, Authenticity, Big Emotions and Feedback
Feb 25, 2025 – 34:53
Ep 121: Thoughts on Embracing and Enjoying Time with our Kids
Feb 18, 2025 – 18:22
Ep 120: The Fatherwound, Patriarchy and Growing up in Fatherhood with Clint Davis (Re-release)
Feb 11, 2025 – 1:01:06
Ep 119: Rage, Vitality, Agency and Growing up in Motherhood with Lisa Marchiano
Feb 4, 2025 – 53:41
Ep 118: Stress Responses, Feelings, Mood and Emotional Flow
Jan 28, 2025 – 29:22
Ep 117: Your Body Really Does Remember and Shifting Patterns with Dr Kathrin Stauffer
Jan 21, 2025 – 55:13
Ep 116: Healing, Autoimmunity, Quantum Biology and Growing Up in Motherhood with Dr Catherine Clinton
Jan 14, 2025 – 41:01
Ep 115: Permission, Tending to Ourselves and Tending to the World
Jan 7, 2025 – 28:07
Ep 114: Boundaries and Values in the Holidays
Dec 24, 2024 – 12:00
Ep 113: Understand your Nervous System to Support Yourself
Dec 22, 2024 – 15:24
Ep 112: Developmental Trauma, Healing and Growing Up in Fatherhood with Stephen Terrell
Dec 17, 2024 – 51:52
Ep 111: Welcoming in More Ease and Harmony
Dec 10, 2024 – 19:30
Ep 110: Eating Disorders, Shame, Developmental Trauma and Attachment Styles
Dec 3, 2024 – 55:21
Ep 109: Growing Up in Motherhood and Making all Feelings Safe with Alita Blanchard
Nov 26, 2024 – 49:48
Ep 108: Why Bother with Validating Emotions and Holding Space?
Nov 19, 2024 – 19:09
Ep 107: Childhood Trauma, The Nervous System and Mothering (Re-release)
Nov 12, 2024 – 58:45
Ep 106: Emotional Defence Strategies, Interoception and Emotional Flow
Nov 5, 2024 – 33:39
Ep 105: Breaking up with Self Abandonment
Oct 29, 2024 – 24:14
Ep 104: Desperation, Cycle Breaking and Self Abandonment
Oct 21, 2024 – 18:57
Ep 103: Emotional Flow, Dissociation and the Complexity of Allowing and Processing Emotion
Oct 14, 2024 – 28:56
Ep 102: Chronic Stress, Nervous System Patterns and Healing
Oct 7, 2024 – 30:09
Ep 101: Neurodivergence, Unschooling, Consent Based Living and Growing Up in Motherhood with Fran Liberatore
May 20, 2024 – 1:09:16
Ep 100: Home Education, Extracting ourselves from Systems and Growing Up in Motherhood with Julie Walter
May 13, 2024 – 1:06:17
Ep 99: Birth, Postpartum, Mother in laws and Growing Up in Motherhood with Concetta Ferretti
May 6, 2024 – 58:58
Ep 98: Intrusions, Control and Growing Up in Motherhood with Anna Butcher (Re-release)
Apr 29, 2024 – 56:57
Ep 97: Power, Systems, Gardening and Growing Up in Motherhood with Marchelle Farrell
Apr 22, 2024 – 1:04:35
Ep 96: Partner Rage, Postpartum Health and Healing in Motherhood with Molly Caro May. (Re-release)
Apr 15, 2024 – 51:43
Ep 95: Hypervigilence, Knowing Ourselves, Enoughness and Values in Parenting
Apr 8, 2024 – 27:03
Ep 94: People Pleasing, Boundaries and Our Needs
Apr 1, 2024 – 23:58
Ep 93: Matrescence and Growing Up in Motherhood with Lucy Jones (Re-release)
Mar 26, 2024 – 56:13
Ep 92: Respect, Needs, Divorce and Growing Up in Motherhood with Nicola Rae
Mar 19, 2024 – 47:35
Ep 91: Perimenopause, Early Postpartum and Growing Up in Motherhood with Kate Codrington
Mar 12, 2024 – 43:39
Ep 90: Building Better Brains, Primitive Reflexes and Growing up in Motherhood with Lorraine Driscoll
Mar 5, 2024 – 54:11
Ep 89: Guilt and Shame in Parenting: Ask Cath
Feb 27, 2024 – 24:56
Ep 88: Learning to Meet Needs is a Practise (Re-release)
Feb 20, 2024 – 18:58
Ep 87: The Fatherwound, Patriarchy and Growing up in Fatherhood with Clint Davis
Feb 13, 2024 – 1:01:09
Ep 86: Being a Changemaker, Fawning and Growing Up in Motherhood with Kemi Omijeh
Feb 6, 2024 – 54:15
Ep 85: Making Sense of Our Own Experience: Culture, Generational Trauma and Parenting Practises
Jan 30, 2024 – 23:53
Ep 84: Mental Health and Personal Growth in our Mothering with Emily Adler Mosqueda (Re-release)
Jan 23, 2024 – 43:02
Ep 83: Well being, Perimenopause and Growing Up in Motherhood with Thalia Pellegrini
Jan 16, 2024 – 51:09
Ep 82: Intrusive Thoughts and Growing Up in Motherhood with Caroline Boyd
Jan 9, 2024 – 51:21

Recent Reviews

vcarol123

Just What I Need!

I’m enjoying this podcast so much. I’m a wife, mother and grandma. I’ve been sober five years. I came from a dysfunctional family. I raised my children, unfortunately, as a damaged parent. My sobriety journey is leading me to emotional maturity. I’m starving for this! I was an addictive people pleaser for too long. I hope to learn valuable tools that will help me discover my true self.
Eb4129

Great podcast

I find this podcast very validating and helpful.
Magan H

Absolutely amazing!

I adore Cath & her ability to speak to exactly what needs to be heard by all of us in a compassionate & relatable way. I resonate deeply with literally everything she says!! Such a good podcast for growing yourself up
JaTev

Just what I need in bite-sized bits of info

Cath’s thoughtful and honest episodes are just what I’m looking for in terms of giving me the information I want within a timeframe I can manage. I always appreciate the suggestions she shares as well as her vulnerability in sharing the stories and struggles from her life. She’s clear on how to be compassionate with all the people in your family, including yourself and how to forge ahead with repairs when things go wrong, which they sometimes do. I highly recommend her podcast! I especially love her particularly British expressions, “oh, goodie!” Thank you, Cath, for your work and your willingness to bring us into your circle!
Brooklynbeyond

I look forward to Mondays now

I recognize the irony of posting this on a Monday as a rare Tuesday episode is released tomorrow (rather than Monday), but wanted to share my appreciation for Cath’s subtle work guiding us on a journey to use our activations as departures into healing, through awareness, self-compassion, and titrated pattern shifting. Cath is a friend of mine so initially my interest was one to support her as a beloved human, yet with each passing week I found myself really interested to know more about the topics she would cover. Cath’s approach is gentle enough for “beginners” (we are all beginners, really, in this life) while remaining illustrative and informative for those of us who have been exploring those deepest inner wounds for some time whether on a professional or personal level. She models her own journey through parenting both herself and her babes. These reference points are relatable and loving. Feeling so grateful to know her and to see this podcast flourish.
Peaceoftheheart

Well crafted episodes—great topics

Concise and thoughtfully planned episodes review topics so relevant to parenthood. Cath’s personal shares enhance the topic and leave me feeling less broken, but seen and human. The journal prompts that go with the episodes allow for reflection and a chance to make a plan or set a goal to shift behavior or thinking. Thanks for this service of education and accessibility to topics we all have experience with. Highly recommend!
Titilayo A.

We all make sense

Refreshing, relatable, doable and the gentle, bite-sized reminders I need that, as Cath says, “We all make sense.” Thank you for sharing these healing insights with us.
AliRyan08

Everything I Needed

Absolutely LOVE this podcast! As an adult child of an alcoholic committed to mothering and parenting with kindness, respect and compassion, I’m so grateful for the knowledge, resources and wisdom that Cath shares in each episode. Highly recommend to anyone looking for support in living a heart centered, authentic life. Cath’s voice is so soothing, calming and reassuring… absolutely love listening to everything she shares!