Women of Steel with Miriam Grace

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  • Miriam Grace talks to remarkable women about their lives and challenges through the lens of her work as a psychotherapist.


    Recorded in Sheffield, the UK city of steel, Women of Steel uncovers lived experiences which challenge existing power structures and validate the voices of marginalised or disadvantage women.


    Compassionate, joyful, wise, honest, and irreverent, Miriam, and her guests, celebrate ways in which women endure, and the podcast focuses on the idea that shared stories become a community resource for us all to to deepen, to strengthen and to grow.

    Miriam Grace is a psychotherapist and author with 35 years experience.

    Website: www.blue-skies.org.uk

    Facebook: Miriam Grace Therapist Blue Skies

    Instagram: @MiriamGraceBlueSkies

    Email: miriam@blue-skies.org.uk


    Podcast website: womenofsteel.co.uk

    Instagram: @womenofsteelpod

    Facebook: @womenofsteelpodcast


    Production by Tim Jones: webmill.co.uk

    Music by Brynovsky ©2024 : brynovsky.co.uk


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Holding and Healing with Clay and Fire: Ruth Elizabeth Jones

    Holding and Healing with Clay and Fire: Ruth Elizabeth Jones
    Mar 6 2025
    Ruth Elizabeth Jones is a ceramic artist based in Scotland and her creative practice centres on the vessel form. She builds clay vessels using coil-building techniques dating back to matriarchal Neolithic pottery cultures, and her work makes ongoing reference to the female ceramic record.She is currently developing large sculptural vessels, which balance inner volume and outer form, and look to achieve the stillness of a quiet holding or containing space.Her approach to clay focuses on its materiality; she explores its possibilities and resistances. Her intention is that the meditative focus of making, the union of energy and calm, is somehow retained in the work.Her vessels are smoke-fired with sustainably sourced wood shavings, and as a result they acquire rich and varied surfaces, suggestive of light and dark.Ruth’s affinity with clay has been lifelong. After studying in the Midlands in the 1980s, she established studios firstly in Derby and then in rural Southwest Scotland where she continues to live and work.You can follow Ruth on:Website: ruthelizabethjones.comFacebook: @ruthelizabethjonesceramicsInstagram: @ruth_elizabeth_jonesSign Up for Ruth’s newsletter to hear about upcoming exhibitions and events.Upcoming EventsHag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy Through Craft March - June 2025York Ceramics Fair March 2025Potfest by the Lake, Compton VerneyJune 2025Potfest in the Park, Hutton-in-the-Forest July 2025Other informationThe Great Pottery ThrowdownMiriam Grace is a psychotherapist and author with 35 years experience. Website: www.blue-skies.org.uk Facebook: Miriam Grace Therapist Blue SkiesInstagram: @MiriamGraceBlueSkiesEmail: miriam@blue-skies.org.ukPodcast website: womenofsteel.co.uk Instagram: @womenofsteelpodFacebook: @womenofsteelpodcastProduction by Tim Jones: webmill.co.uk Music by Brynovsky: brynovsky.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    50 mins
  • Crafting a Path Through Illness: Germaine Hypher

    Crafting a Path Through Illness: Germaine Hypher
    Feb 20 2025

    Germaine Hypher is an award winning poet, a mother, a writer and craftivist.


    Germaine has been chronically ill for decades, and is largely bed-bound.

    During a childhood, where she was often too unwell to attend school, Germaine has been reliant on carers over many decades, Germaine has been able to return to a sense of meaning and purpose through her poetry, writing and crafting.


    Her new book CRAFTING A PATH THROUGH ILLNESS is available:

    - now for preorder in the UK from: Amazon and Waterstones

    - from all good booksellers from: April 17th 2025.

    Published by: Hammersmith Press


    You can follow Germaine on:

    Website: www.germainehypher.weebly.com

    Facebook: Crafting A Path Through Illness

    Instagram: @craftingapaththroughillness

    Bluesky: germainehypher



    Miriam Grace is a psychotherapist and author with 35 years experience.

    Website: www.blue-skies.org.uk

    Facebook: Miriam Grace Therapist Blue Skies

    Instagram: @MiriamGraceBlueSkies

    Email: miriam@blue-skies.org.uk


    Podcast website: womenofsteel.co.uk

    Instagram: @womenofsteelpod

    Facebook: @womenofsteelpodcast


    Production by Tim Jones: webmill.co.uk

    Music by Brynovsky: brynovsky.co.uk


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    59 mins
  • Alexander Technique and Care Home Visits: Imogen Ragone Part 2

    Alexander Technique and Care Home Visits: Imogen Ragone Part 2
    Feb 6 2025

    Part two of Miriam's talk with Alexander teacher and creator of Body Intelligence, Imogen Ragone. They talk about the inevitable stresses of caring for a parent with dementia and learn how Imogen was able to apply her learning to help her through devastating and incremental loss.


    Imogen helps women who are stressed, anxious, maybe even dealing with trauma, to better support their nervous system so they feel calmer and more at ease in themselves, and so they have a sense of more agency and feel more empowered in their lives.


    Imogen calls her work, “BodyIntelligence,” and it is based on the principles of the Alexander Technique, an evidence-based mind-body approach to using our whole selves – body and mind - consciously, efficiently, with freedom, ease and poise. She has over 18 years’ experience teaching this transformational work, and has developed her own unique approach focusing especially on an embodied mindfulness and self-care. In recent years her work has increasingly focused on supporting women, especially those in caregiving roles with friends or family members, and dealing with chronic stress and trauma.


    Imogen gives her clients concepts, tools, and mindful practices they can use immediately. These days she mostly works with small groups and much of this is done online via Zoom, though she does maintain a small private practice too.


    Imogen's website: https://imogenragone.com

    On Facebook:

    https://www.facebook.com/CalmConfidentControl

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodyintelligencecommunity

    On LinkedIn:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/imogenragone

    Foundations of Regulation Course for women dealing with chronic stress or trauma:

    https://imogenragone.com/foundations-of-regulation

    Monthly Half-Hour Guided Constructive Rest Sessions:

    https://imogenragone.com/constructive-rest-for-stress-relief


    Miriam Grace is a psychotherapist and author with 35 years experience.

    Website: www.blue-skies.org.uk

    Facebook: Miriam Grace Therapist Blue Skies

    Instagram: @MiriamGraceBlueSkies

    Email: miriam@blue-skies.org.uk


    Podcast website: womenofsteel.co.uk

    Instagram: @womenofsteelpod

    Facebook: @womenofsteelpodcast


    Production by Tim Jones: webmill.co.uk

    Music by Brynovsky: brynovsky.co.uk


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    46 mins

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