Loved Called Gifted
The Loved Called Gifted Podcast is your place to come for musings about spirituality, identity and purpose. Thoughts about life purpose and how to discover it. Finding value in being - not just doing. Spirituality and how to develop it. Interviews with people who have interesting stories, experience and knowledge to share. The podcast also supports the Loved, Called, Gifted course, which can be found at lovedcalledgifted.com.
Episodes

Jan 24, 2025
Jan 24, 2025
31 min
Gill Jarrett is a holistic massage therapist, working in Shrewsbury. She discovered her passion for massage while on her own healing journey out of domestic violence and into healing and wholeness. She is now passionate about helping others on their journeys. She shares her own story and her desire to see others find healing, in body, mind and spirit. She is qualified in Jing massage and is an Advanced Clinical and Sports Massage Therapist. She has conducted research into the benefits of massage and often runs workshops, like the one she did for the University of Staffordshire, which is where she and Catherine met. She has lots of wisdom to share about life, passion, purpose and the healing that comes when we find our way back to ourselves and back into our bodies.
Episode Transcript
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Jan 10, 2025
Jan 10, 2025
55 min
This episode of the "Loved Called Gifted" podcast, host Catherine Cowell is joined by clinical psychologist and author Naomi Fisher. They discuss Fisher's book "When the Naughty Step Makes Things Worse" and explore alternative approaches to parenting, particularly for children who don’t respond to traditional methods. There are lots of relatable anecdotes and humour about the daily chaos of parenting, paired with Naomi's insights into navigating challenges with creativity.
There is a full transcript available here.
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To find out more about Naomi Fisher and her work, go to:
https://naomifisher.co.uk/
To find out more about the work that Catherine does with parents, go to the And Breathe website.
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Dec 20, 2024
Dec 20, 2024
41 min
Pete Lewin Newfoundlands is a remarkable charity that gives people the unique opportunity to swim with Newfoundland dogs. Pete fell in love with Newfoundlands when he learnt about their incredible abilities as water rescue dogs and their heroism. While working with them as water rescue dogs, he discovered the potential of his Newfoundlands to support people with their emotional and mental well being. He now takes all sorts of people swimming with his Newfoundlands, working particularly with people from the armed forces and emergency services, who have experienced trauma. The combination of time in the water with the dogs and swimming outdoors in the peace and beauty of the lake, are hugely beneficial. Pete shares his love for his dogs, the story of Pete Lewin Newfoundlands and something of his own experiences of working for many years as a paramedic.
Transcript
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Dec 6, 2024
Dec 6, 2024
42 min
Emily shares the story of her family, which includes birth children, children who are adopted and asylum seeking migrants, who they foster. She talks about her faith and God’s leading and provision through their remarkable journey. She mentions Home for Good and the impact their work has had on the wider church and discusses the dynamics of a large family. And trusting God each morning that there will be enough love for everyone.
Transcript
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Nov 22, 2024
Nov 22, 2024
53 min
Connective parenting is an approach to parenting that puts relationship and connection at the centre. It is based on NVR, which stands for Non Violent Resistance and has been enormously helpful for families facing extremely difficult behaviour. It contains within it principles that can be helpful beyond parenting, in all our relationships. Sarah Fisher is an adoptive parent and NVR practitioner. She created Connective Family, which provides training, coaching and advice to parents and professionals and has her own podcast, "Sarah Fisher talks connective parenting".
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Ed: Oops updated audio file Sat 23 Nov 13:00 to fix missing audio around 6 mins mark - Stephen

Nov 8, 2024
Nov 8, 2024
3 sec
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Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024
41 min
Back in July, Catherine released an episode called ‘Is God Feminine’, exploring the feminine images for God in the Bible and suggesting that if men and women are made in the image of the Divine, then we shouldn’t be surprised to find feminine names and imagery for God in the Bible. Hannah wanted to discuss the episode to find out more and to share both her enthusiasm and her discomfort with the idea of God as feminine. If you find this topic interesting and you'd like to know more, Catherine has a Medium blog in which she's been writing about this for a while.
Episode Transcript
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Oct 11, 2024
Oct 11, 2024
39 min
Sarah Clarke is a lecturer at the Church Mission Society (CMS) and has a particular interest in art as a way into the sacred. And the ways that art can facilitate expression in ways that words cannot.
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Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
46 min
Catherine chatted with Jocie and Dave Twine, founders of the Life Project, in their caravan awning at the New Wine Christian festival this summer. They talk about the joys and challenges of life with their son Josh, who has autism and semantic pragmatic disorder. He also has a fantastic memory and an incredible singing voice. They set up the Life Project charity to support other families of people with additional needs and to create a community where everyone is welcome. They also talk about the surprising joy of being part of the disability community.
You can find a transcript of the episode here
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Sep 6, 2024
Sep 6, 2024
43 min
Catherine and Hannah talk about the lack of tacky Christian gifts in Criccieth, a fish called Brian and a cuddly sheep. Mainly they discuss how we are less building sites to be constructed and more wild islands to be loved and nurtured.
We would love to hear from you. You can find us on our Facebook page or email Catherine: lovedcalledgifted@gmail.com.
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Loved Called Gifted
The Loved Called Gifted podcast is a mixture of inspiring stories, thought provoking conversations and explorations of ideas around identity, calling, psychology, spirituality. Really anything about who we are and why we do the things we do. Although rooted in Christian spirituality, the content is much broader than that and not everyone who listens to or takes part in the podcast would call themselves a Christian.
Alongside the podcast, there are all sorts of other resources. We have a course which helps you to explore your identity and calling. Called Loved Called Gifted. We also offer coaching, spiritual direction and facilitation. To explore all this and more, go the Loved Called Gifted website.
Full transcripts of each episode can also be found at the Loved Called Gifted website.






