Today we have a segment of Ask Rachel here on the show where I get to sit down and talk to you and listen to your super thoughtful, beautiful questions.

Today I answer questions about boundaries and particularly around how to navigate a tumultuous time in a relationship following having set a boundary.

I talk about how the words we speak to ourselves really do shape our reality.

We get into rituals that we can ground into during stressful times and talk about parenting from the heart.

We also talk a little bit about composting. I don't know. It's just a really beautiful episode. I loved your questions this week.

Let's jump in.

Hello my darlings, my friends. Hi, hi, hi. Welcome to a brand new episode of From the Heart with Rachel Breithin.

I am going to try my best to ground a little bit as I'm beginning the podcast today. I am on such a high right now.

Which maybe is a nice change from all the very very intense lows. I feel like I've been sharing on the podcast. We have had a very tumultuous just life.

I was going to say very tumultuous past weeks, but actually it's been a pretty tumultuous couple of months. And I'm like, well isn't life always kind of like a roller coaster? Well, we've had a lot of lows lately, really come our way.

And I feel like I've sat down here to record the show and and cried a lot and just felt my feelings a lot and been down and low.

And we're navigating grief and death and goodbyes and disease and family stuff and pregnancy and you know, it's just been a lot.

And now today, as I'm sitting down to record this, I am in a totally different space just for right now. And I feel so grateful for that.

I'm just on a high. I feel so happy, excited, a little bit scattered all over the place. And the reason I am on a high. And this is like a ridiculous thing.

I can't believe this is something this simple makes me this happy. But we had new curtains installed in our house today today.

Like even saying that like I have to laugh because it's ridiculous that something that simple makes me this joyful. But seriously, we had curtains installed in our house.

We've been living here now since Christmas. It's what is it three months we've been in this house. And I feel like we've done a fair amount of nesting already. I am kind of since before we moved in.

I've been in that process of yeah, just you know renovating and fixing and buying new furniture and figuring life in this new house out and getting it cozy and ready.

And there are just certain things that take a long time and certain things that you have to wait for and certain things that are really expensive that you know you can't do everything at the same time.

And one of the things that I've had to kind of be patient about is curtains in this house. And today was the day when finally curtains for the whole house arrived all at the same time. And it's kind of funny because so many things that I've been waiting on that just took a little bit of time.

And it's been a long time to get ready all aligned this one week. Everything happened at the same time. And I really think it's the energy of spring. I really think it's that airy's like we've left the Pisces kind of emotional flowy, you know, intuitive dreamy kind of untethered slow energy.

And now we've entered the fire. We've left water and we've entered fire fire of aries fire of get shit done fire of now.

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