Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

What has your relationship with pleasure been like historically throughout your life? How did your parents model pleasure for you? Did your family do things just for the sake of enjoyment? Was there any guilt involved? Did you have to work hard first before getting to do something fun? This is our inquiry today on Self-Care Daily. Take it to your journal and go deep. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We talk about the idea of pleasure a lot, but usually we are focused on other things or we limit ourselves. Pleasure may not feel necessary. It may feel selfish. But this week on the show, we are going to go all in. We are going to do the things that make us feel good. We are going to indulge and put the idea of overdoing it aside. And we aren’t going to feel guilty about it! Tune in to begin a week of pleasure. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s time to do the thing thats uncomfortable, to take that step that might be daunting, to have the hard conversation, to set the boundary, to say no, to open your heart and put your feelings out there. But - you are going to do it in writing. This is a great first step to having a hard conversation. Put your feelings on paper, tell the truth, and then Rachel will tell you what to do after. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you aren’t sure where you need to clear the air in your life, a great place to look is at your boundaries. Are you doing something you don’t want to be doing? What feels like a NO to you, but you aren’t saying no? It may be time to figure that out - and go from there. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The best way to know if we are being untrue to ourselves in some capacity - is to actually listen to ourselves. Your most authentic self, your inner knowing, your intuition is trying to communicate with you. But there are so many outside voices coming at us that we can often get thrown off track. In today’s episode, Rachel will guide you through some real silence so you can hear what your inner voice has been whispering. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How often do you find yourself biting your tongue? Are you avoiding a certain topic where really you have lots to say? Or do you feel like you lack power to use your voice? In today’s episode, you are going to contemplate the area of your life where you are being too quiet. Go deep and it will likely bring you to an important realization. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on Self-Care Daily, we have a very specific topic. We are going to clear the air! There is probably a relationship or something unfolding in your life right now where the waters are muddied. Something is unspoken. The energy is off. This week we will work to wipe the slate clean. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It may sound like a cliché, but doing something that scares you - and stepping outside of your comfort zone a little bit - is the only way you’re going to grow, expand, and evolve. And that is exactly what we are going to do for this week’s self-care practice. You can go as big or as small as you like, but do something that scares you and see how your world changes. Rachel shares some great ideas to get started. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today’s episode brings you right to the heart of this week’s inquiries: how are you being called to be brave right now? In what way are you being asked to step up, speak up, and make a difference? There is a reason you are hearing these words right now. Your life needs to change in some way, or there is something you can no longer stand for. It’s time to do something about it. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As they say, bravery is not the absence of fear - it’s feeling it and doing it anyways. When was the last time you were really brave? Connect to how it felt. Was it uncomfortable? Scary? Today’s episode will help you understand exactly where that bravery came from - and how to source it when you need it. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s normal to oscillate between feeling really strong in your life to feeling really weak and not in control. And this can happen in any area of life! But there is definitely something that helps you connect to your inner strength. This week as we connect to our courage, we need that sense of inner strength to lean on - and we need those resources that help anchor is there. What is that for you? Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we are entering Leo season - and it is calling us to take up space and be more courageous. What does that look like for you? Is there a cause that is important to you? Can you speak loudly when other people in the world don’t have the same ability to? There is no time to play small or think that your voice doesn’t matter - the world is waiting. This week will take us to some beautiful places! Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hopefully throughout this week you discovered what activity brings you joy and lifts you up - and serves no other purpose. Because today, we are going to do that thing. Allow yourself to be fully immersed in joy in a way that is not providing anything to anyone else. This time is just for you to fill your cup. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today’s practice will give you a little bit of a reality check. Is there something that used to bring you joy, but that you attached an expectation to? We are so great at doing this as adults. We take something we love, and we put pressure on it, or we need to have it look a certain way, or we turn it into work. And suddenly, it has lost that innocence and playfulness that was there at the beginning. Rachel shares some great examples from her own life, then it’s time for you to check your own patterns as well. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today’s episode is a gratitude practice - and it’s for something that brings you immense joy. When you treat yourself, what do you reach for? What do you do for fun? What do you do to lose yourself in? Is it a way you move your body, or a person, or a place? Rachel will share her own example, and then it’s your turn to summon up the biggest wave of gratitude. Joy is not something to be taken for granted. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For today’s practice, you are going to take a walk down memory lane. When you were a child, what did you do for joy? What was something you could immerse yourself in that you got completely lost in? What is something you did for no other reason than it made you happy? By taking a look at our past, we may be able to find something we can reignite in the future. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you are a woman listening to this, you probably spend a large amount of your day taking care of others. When you get that moment of self-care, is it really truly just for you? This week on Self-Care Daily, we are going to find where our happiness lies when it’s a little bit useless. What is something that brings you joy that is just for you? This is where the real ability to restore ourselves comes from. It happens in those little moments where we allow ourselves presence and love because we are worth it. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today’s self-care practice will help you take up the space you deserve. It’s time to shine brighter than you would any other normal Friday. You are going to dress the way that makes you feel beautiful. This isn’t for anything superficial, but so that you can feel the most like you. Because we all know, when you are truly yourself, that’s when you can do the best work in the world. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today’s practice will give you permission to shine a little bit brighter. You are going to ask yourself - in what area of your life could you be taking up more space? Where are you shrinking, where are you holding yourself back, and where could you grow a little bit bigger and stand a little bit taller? Today’s contemplation is a big question and will probably come with a big answer. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a flower has just bloomed is when it’s at its most beautiful - and the same goes for you! What do you find most beautiful about yourself right now? In today’s episode, we are discussing an external part of beauty, but not society’s standards of beauty. Rachel will share some examples of what you may find beautiful, and why. By the end of the episode, you will be able to stand up and shine, just like a flower in bloom. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices