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Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Are You Appreciating The Beauty of The Springtime?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7643 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Does time feel like it’s speeding up for you right now? We are approaching the end of the school year, the weather is getting warmer - and our lives tend to get busier. This week on the show you will be invited to not spin too far off into that busy-ness, but instead, to pay attention to the magic unfolding all around you. It really is fleeting, and you don’t want to miss 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

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0:00.0

Hi friends. Welcome back to the show. Hope you're having a wonderful day so far.

0:10.0

We are diving into a brand new topic for our self-care practices for this week. And I'm feeling

0:17.9

personally very inspired to share a specific topic or a specific theme to center

0:24.1

our practices around.

0:26.1

Now, this time of year, so we're really hitting peak spring, tends to be a very intense

0:32.3

time for most of us.

0:35.1

So we are approaching kind of the last, you know, last couple of weeks of the

0:39.7

school year. Things are intense when it comes to studies. We're all in this kind of high

0:45.9

energy, high output mode. We feel that energy inside of us rising, reflecting the energy out in nature, where everything is coming

0:56.7

to life. If you have a little plot of land or a garden, you're really busy right now, making

1:02.3

all of that happen. It just tends to be this very lively time of our lives, right? I find particularly

1:10.3

May is often so beautiful because we get the

1:14.3

warmth back for the first time, but it tends to be just a very, very busy time. And what I wanted

1:22.1

to offer us this week is this little opportunity to not spin too far off into busyness at this time of year

1:32.3

and to make sure that we're not missing all the magic that actually is unfolding around us.

1:40.4

And I know you have tons of work right now.

1:44.0

You have so much to do that list of things that need to be just fixed and figure it out. It's endless. The days feel like they're just kind of flying by. It is a little bit like time speeding up around peak of spring. But at the same time, the magic of this time is so fleeting.

2:02.7

Spring and particularly May really teaches us that beauty comes and if we don't pay attention,

2:10.8

we might miss it.

2:12.6

And I'm having that experience a little bit every day where I'm trying to pay attention

2:17.2

at everything

2:17.7

happening in nature, noticing everything that's blooming and everything that's about to

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