A Midlife Crisis: How to Find Hope In a Scary World

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve been feeling a sense of dread about the state of the world, today’s episode will lift you up and give you hope. Rachel is starting to feel like natural disasters are happening at an alarming rate - maybe you can relate. And after just celebrating her birthday, she is considering having a midlife crisis a little early. When we look at the state of the world, it’s easy to become hopeless. Are we headed in a good direction or will things just get darker from here? How is time moving so quickly and our children growing older so rapidly? What can we do to slow down, settle our nervous systems, and become more present in our lives? At the end of the episode, Rachel shares a magical story her daughter told her about how we are born and where we were before. It’s an existential episode that will remind you what really matters. 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

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the podcast I share that I am currently considering having a little midlife crisis.
0:07.0	I know 36 is maybe a little bit too young for that, but I think I'm not alone in feeling a massive sense of dread right now.
0:16.0	When we look at the state of the world, it's easy to become really hopeless.
0:20.0	Are we heading in a beautiful direction or is it going to get darker from here?
0:25.0	I also talk about the fact that time is moving so quickly.
0:30.0	So what can we do to slow down and become more present in our day-to-day lives?
0:36.0	At the end of the podcast, I also share just a magical story that my daughter shared with me this
0:41.3	week about how we are born and what came before.
0:46.0	It's a pretty existential episode.
0:51.6	Let's jump in.
0:56.0	Hi everyone. Hello my friends. How are we doing today? I hope wherever you woke up this morning
1:06.6	and however you woke up, you feel a sense of gratitude
1:10.8	that you got to wake up.
1:12.1	Oh, that sounds like a really morbid weight. of gratitude that you got to wake up.
1:15.0	Oh, that sounds like a really morbid way to begin this podcast, but it really is something
1:19.3	to not take for granted.
1:20.8	If you're sitting in a warm dry comfy space right now you are
1:26.6	not worried or fearful or under threat if you didn't have to evacuate because of natural disasters that keep
1:36.8	coming or you're not persecuted or occupied by another nation.
1:43.7	If you are just like me, you know,
1:46.1	sitting in your home or sitting at your office
1:48.3	or commuting or whatever you're doing in this moment,
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