Can we build confidence in our children? Or is confidence something that they have to figure out for

themselves? I do a really fun episode of Ask Rachel this week where I talk about everything from

roosters. Yes, I have arrived at the place in my life where people ask me for advice on roosters. I have made it.

And parenting sensitive children. I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you so much.

Let's jump in.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to a new episode of the show.

How are you doing right now?

How are you enjoying this time of year?

This most, most precious, incredible, beautiful time of year.

I feel this massive need in my whole body to stop. I want to stop everything.

I want absolutely nothing on my to do list, nothing on the horizon. So I can just be in nature

and really soak up every little drop of magic that is happening around us right now.

Every flower that blooms, I'm like, slow down, slow down. I want to hang out with you. I want to

just savor this moment. I want to be in this time of spring and not rush through it. I just, I want to,

I want to move slow. And the last couple of weeks have been the opposite of slow. And I'm, I'm,

I'm finding my way towards slowing down a little bit more. But yeah, as a as an herbalist,

also anyone who is into herbalism, you know when a flower blooms like that, that's time.

Most of them, it's like a tiny little window. Like this is the season for this specific thing

that brings this very specific medicine or that you can use for

all these incredible recipes or just sit and watch, you know, stare at the beauty of that flower

or everything is so fleeting. So every time I catch another plant, another herb outside,

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