The podcast re-schooling you in the things that matter. Certified Life Coach and founder of The Curiosity Club, Catri Barrett, is joined by special guests to have the conversations needed to remove the shame, stigma and feel less alone in the experiences that we all have in common. Catri asks the awkward and important questions so you don’t have to around topics like mental health, sex, relationships, work, money and a whole lot more. Are you curious? Pull up a chair and join us.
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Exploring The Fluidity Of Personhood with Tide Adesanya
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Founder of The Curiosity Club, Catri Barrett, is kicking off season 3 by speaking to multidisciplinary creative, founder of activist platform @_reeducate, and lead creative at The Restless Network, Tide Adesanya.
Episode talking points:
- How Tide never felt like she belonged growing up, the impact this had on her confidence and mental wellbeing
- Tide’s journey of self-discovery through fashion, experimentation, and her creative processes
- Tide shares insights she’s learnt about herself that have helped navigate anxiety and mental health challenges, along with the processes that have helped develop her confidence and resilience
- The pinnacle moments that helped Tide become the successful creative she is today
- The importance of joy and how to bring it into your everyday life
- The confidence that can be gained from stepping out of your comfort zone and how to do it more often
- The lessons Tide wishes she had been taught in school:
- The practicalities of being a freelancer; how to network and manage your accounts and finances
- The diverse range of possibilities within the creative industry and how to access them
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Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Self-harm & Mental Health with Satveer Nijjar
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
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In S2E7, Catri Barrett speaks to self-harm expert and educator, Satveer Nijjar. Satveer is the founder of Attention Seekers, which offers bespoke self-harm awareness training to schools, workplaces and institutions.
In this open, raw and educational episode, Catri and Satveer explore...
- The different definitions of self-harm and what it means to self-injure and self-poison
- Triggers of self-harm: emotional distress and struggling
- Risk taking behaviours: how sexual and criminal risk taking and sabotaging relationships can be intentionally harmful to oneself.
- Spotting potential early signs
- How to best support and speak to someone who is self-harming even if you don’t understand
- Ways to remove the stigma and taboo that is fed by fear and a lack of understanding
- Potential barriers that prevent someone from engaging with support and treatment ways to overcome this
- Unhelpful language and phrases that should be avoided when talk to someone, or about, self-harm and better alternatives.
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If you’re struggling, there are many resources, apps and websites that you can reach out to for support…
- Hub of Hope App
- Campaign Against Living Miserably
- NHS / PHE One You
- Text Crisis messenger service SHOUT.
- CALM HARM App
- Stay Alive app
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Grief, Change & Living Loss with Julia Samuel MBE
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
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S2E2: Catri Barrett speaks to psychotherapist and author, Julia Samuel MBE. As one of the UK’s leading psychotherapists, Julia helped launch and establish the charity Child Bereavement UK and was awarded an MBE in recognition of her services to bereaved children, as well as an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University.
In this episode, we speak about...
- Healthy grieving and what you can do if you're struggling right now after the loss of a loved one or experiencing a crisis or change.
- Living loss: How we can all experience grief during times of change at any point in life such as losing a job, moving house, becoming a parent, aging or during a pandemic.
- How the pandemic has bought up the reality of our mortality a lot more up close and personal and what this means for us all moving forward.
- Julia shares her 8 pillars to help you feel more steady and become more resilient and better adapt to and navigate change.
- Julia unpacks the biggest misconceptions that surround grief around 'getting over it', healing with time, forgetting and moving on.
- The importance of talking about death and loss. How the Victorians did grief well but sex badly in comparison to nowadays where we talk about sex a lot but are very bad at talking about death.
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Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Truth talks & confronting ourselves with Sima Kumar
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
To kick off season two of the Curiosity Club podcast Catri Barrett is talking with Sima Kumar, the CEO of diversity and inclusion company The Other Box, a consultant, coach and certified yoga therapist.
This episode is called 'truth talks' for a reason; it’s all about the importance of confronting the hidden, darker areas of ourselves if we want to improve our emotional and mental wellbeing.
We spoke about...
• What it really means to be human right now during the pandemic and all that’s been going on with the black lives matter movement recently
• Practising anti-racism
• How important it is that we all examine the conditioning and patterns within us all and the negative impact it can have on us and future generations if we don’t
• Why Sima deviated from mainstream yoga
• The impacts that spiritual bypassing and gaslighting ourselves, and others, can have
• How you can stop caring so much about what other people think of you
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Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
How to motivate yourself
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
In episode 31 Catri explores what motivates you and her proven strategies to finding that inspiration and drive when you need it most. This episode is for you if you're someone who has loads of great ideas but never quite seems to get the ball rolling with them, who gives up when the going gets tough, or get's off to a good start with their goals but feigns a few months in. Learn how to create your own motivation strategy to help fuel your enthusiasm and suceed better.
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
How your lack of Body Intelligence is affecting your mental health
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
In episode 28 Catri explores the 3 pillars of body intelligence and how they impact your overall mental and physical health. In the second half of the podcast Catri guides you through a short meditation that will help you start developing your body intelligence today.
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Background music in the meditation is 'Self-Care' by Lee Rosevere
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
10 ways to boost your confidence
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
In episode 27 Catri explores one of the most common things to hold women back, low-confidence. She dives into 10 different ways you can start overcoming your sense of lacking, self-doubt, and fear and begin boosting your confidence with actionable steps towards becoming the most bold bright and brilliant version of yourself.
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Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
The ultimate tips to feeling less frazzled in times of stress
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
In episode 24 Catri explores her top tips for finding calm and clarity when you're feeling frazzled and hectic during times of stress. Whether it's a long 'to-do' list that's getting to you, self-doubt feeding your worries, or a work deadline, Catri gives you a lot of practible tips that you can start putting into action TODAY.
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