Épisodes

  • Book Club Episode - Wintering by Katherine May
    Nov 13 2025

    For this bonus book club episode we have read the brilliant bestselling book 'Wintering' by Katherine May and speak about how it links to burnout. Wintering takes us through living through personal and seasonal winters and how knitting can be a brilliant activity to accompany us through both types of winter.

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    🧶 If you'd like to learn more about how to use knitting for your self-care, check out our course Self-Care One Stitch at a Time.

    🧶Catch up on our on-demand webinar The Healing Power of Knitting where we take a deep dive into the mental health benefits of knitting.

    Here's how to stay in touch:

    💌 Sign up to the Creative Restoration newsletter

    📲 Follow us on Instagram at @knittingistherapeutic and @drpaularedmond

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    38 min
  • Bonus episode - Knitting for burnout prevention with Dr Paula Redmond
    Oct 30 2025

    For this bonus episode I am joined by Dr Paula Redmond who specialises in working with health professionals experiencing burnout.

    Paula speaks about her own journey into this work during Covid, and how creativity in her personal life has encouraged her to bring this into her work.

    We talk about what burnout is, and who might be more likely to experience it, and why knitting is a great tool to prevent burnout. We'll be going into this in much more detail in our webinar, Unravelling Burnout

    If you'd like to find out about Paula's clinical work in the area of burnout, or download her free Burnout Toolkit you can visit her website here: Dr Paula Redmond

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    🧶 If you'd like to learn more about how to use knitting for your self-care, check out our course Self-Care One Stitch at a Time.

    🧶Catch up on our on-demand webinar The Healing Power of Knitting where we take a deep dive into the mental health benefits of knitting.

    Here's how to stay in touch:

    💌 Sign up to the Creative Restoration newsletter

    📲 Follow us on Instagram at @knittingistherapeutic and @drpaularedmond

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    27 min
  • Journal Club - Knitting for anxiety and compassion fatigue in nurses
    Oct 2 2025

    Join Clinical Psychologists Dr Mia Hobbs and Dr Paula Redmond as we discuss two research papers about knitting and mental health.

    These papers both relate to nurses and supporting them with the challenges of their role.

    Paper 1 relates to using knitting to reduce compassion fatigue in nurses

    Paper 2 relates to using knitting to reduce anxiety in nursing students

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    🧶 If you'd like to learn more about how to use knitting for your self-care, check out our course Self-Care One Stitch at a Time.

    🧶Catch up on our on-demand webinar The Healing Power of Knitting where we take a deep dive into the mental health benefits of knitting.

    Here's how to stay in touch:

    💌 Sign up to the Creative Restoration newsletter

    📲 Follow us on Instagram at @knittingistherapeutic and @drpaularedmond

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    47 min
  • Healing and soothing through knitting with Dr Katya Miles
    Jul 31 2025

    For the final episode of series 8 I am delighted to be joined by Dr Katya Miles of The Working Well Doctor. Katya works as a Coach and Trainer for health professionals and people in high stress professions.

    She speaks about turning to knitting during the Covid pandemic when she was self-isolating with covid and how she now associates knitting with healing and soothing, and it is part of her own toolkit for managing stress or high demand situations.

    We talk about recovering from perfectionism and give our views on why so many health professionals are attracted to knitting and needlecrafts.

    Connect with Katya

    Website: Working Well Doctor

    Instagram: @theworkingwelldoctor

    Facebook: @theworkingwelldoctor

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    🧶 If you'd like to learn more about how to use knitting for your self-care, check out our course Self-Care One Stitch at a Time.

    🧶Catch up on our on-demand webinar The Healing Power of Knitting where we take a deep dive into the mental health benefits of knitting.

    Here's how to stay in touch:

    💌 Sign up to the Creative Restoration newsletter

    📲 Follow us on Instagram at @knittingistherapeutic and @drpaularedmond

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    51 min
  • Neurodivergence and knitting with Una
    Jul 24 2025

    I was delighted to be joined by Una, also known as @TheNeurodivergentCraftClub on Instagram. Una speaks about how knitting has been helpful in recovering from burnout, but has also been a really useful way to find out what her brain really needs - both to find some moments of focus and to feel settled and satisfied.

    It was so interesting to talk to Una about her experience of being a neurodivergent knitter and the reasons she believes that many neurodivergent people are attracted to knitting.

    Connect with Una

    Instagram: @theneurodivergentcraftclub

    Substack: neurodivergentcraftclub

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    🧶 If you'd like to learn more about how to use knitting for your self-care, check out our course Self-Care One Stitch at a Time.

    🧶Catch up on our on-demand webinar The Healing Power of Knitting where we take a deep dive into the mental health benefits of knitting.

    Here's how to stay in touch:

    💌 Sign up to the Creative Restoration newsletter

    📲 Follow us on Instagram at @knittingistherapeutic and @drpaularedmond

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    53 min
  • Teaching children to knit with Okeyele-Olatunji Elizabeth
    Jul 17 2025

    Elizabeth is a knitting teacher based in Nigeria, and she has made it her personal mission to teach 20,000 children to knit and 'think with their hands'. It was a pleasure to speak to Elizabeth about her own journey to becoming a knitting teacher, and how she has personally used knitting to help her to cope with grief and loss. Elizabeth also speaks about her experiences of teaching children to knit and why she believes this is a valuable addition to their education.

    Connect with Elizabeth

    Instagram: @tunnizze

    Facebook: @tunnizzecreations

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    🧶 If you'd like to learn more about how to use knitting for your self-care, check out our course Self-Care One Stitch at a Time.

    🧶Catch up on our on-demand webinar The Healing Power of Knitting where we take a deep dive into the mental health benefits of knitting.

    Here's how to stay in touch:

    💌 Sign up to the Creative Restoration newsletter

    📲 Follow us on Instagram at @knittingistherapeutic and @drpaularedmond

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    38 min
  • Creating community with Allison Thistlewood
    Jul 10 2025

    Allison Thistlewood is a creator of community in the knitting world. She has had various roles in and around the yarn industry, and the common thread in all of these roles is that she brings knitters together: at yarn festivals, for yarn crawls and on retreats and trips.

    Allison joins me to talk about her experience of moving to the UK from Canada, and how knitting was instrumental in helping her to make connections with new friends, and how she has continued to want to bring this opportunity to other knitters.

    Allison's yarn event Make Joy is returning to Woolwich Works on 8th November - you can find more info on her website and sign up to her newsletter to be informed when tickets go on sale: https://champagneandqiviut.com/about-make-joy

    Connect with Allison

    Website: Champage & Qiviut

    Instagram: @champagneandqiviut

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    🧶 If you'd like to learn more about how to use knitting for your self-care, check out our course Self-Care One Stitch at a Time.

    🧶Catch up on our on-demand webinar The Healing Power of Knitting where we take a deep dive into the mental health benefits of knitting.

    Here's how to stay in touch:

    💌 Sign up to the Creative Restoration newsletter

    📲 Follow us on Instagram at @knittingistherapeutic and @drpaularedmond

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    57 min
  • Hooked on knitting with Adam Cleevely
    Jul 3 2025

    Adam is behind the successful Instagram account @CleevelyKnits where he shares his funny and creative adventures in yarn. Most recently these have included videos on wine-pairings for yarn, and attempting to knit a usable QR code! There is a very strong theme of Adam being someone who thinks outside the box, which is illustrated by the fact that he hasn't knitted from a pattern for several years.

    Despite only starting knitting in 2022, something about it hooked Adam in and he has progressed from beginner to a dabbling designer very quickly.

    We speak about Adam's experience of using knitting, alongside therapy and medication, to support his journey in managing depression and about how it was able to offer him tangible results that he wasn't able to access in his previous career as a CEO. Recently Adam has knitting a colourwork sweater that is designed to promote conversations about mental health.

    You can follow Adam on Instagram here: @cleevelyknits

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    🧶 If you'd like to learn more about how to use knitting for your self-care, check out our course Self-Care One Stitch at a Time.

    🧶Catch up on our on-demand webinar The Healing Power of Knitting where we take a deep dive into the mental health benefits of knitting.

    Here's how to stay in touch:

    💌 Sign up to the Creative Restoration newsletter

    📲 Follow us on Instagram at @knittingistherapeutic and @drpaularedmond

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    1 h et 4 min