Ask Rachel: Your Hardships Are Leading You Somewhere

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today we have an episode of Ask Rachel on the show - and somehow, all the questions beautifully relate and come full circle. In the first question, Rachel openly discusses her relationship with her husband and how they were able to fall deeper in love and grow into a new dynamic in their marriage. She shares an actionable practice that all couples should do every week. Then, she talks about healing from burnout and the single most impactful thing that helped her on this journey - connecting with nature. All of this ties into the last question: how does it feel to manifest a dream? Going from burnout, mold and the most difficult time of Rachel and Dennis’ relationship, they are now flourishing on their land in Sweden and living in tune with nature. Things have come full circle, and today’s episode will remind you that no matter where you may be right now, life is leading you somewhere beautiful. If you have a question for Rachel, you can call her at +1 720 443 1771. 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	Today we have an episode of Ask Rachel on the show. And somehow every single question pretty much
0:08.8	intertwined in today's episode and everything relates. I talk about healing from burnout and how the
0:17.1	thing that helped me the most was finding a connection to nature.
0:21.6	I got a really beautiful question around what it feels to have manifested a big dream in life.
0:29.1	So living on the land where we are now, which of course came from the journey of burning out
0:35.3	and finding my way back to nature, which led me back home,
0:38.7	what that experience is actually like living that right now.
0:44.0	And I also talk about my relationship to my husband and how in the last couple of months
0:50.3	we've been able to make a big shift in our daily dynamic.
0:53.9	And I give a really specific
0:56.5	piece of advice for a practice that I really recommend every couple does.
1:05.0	Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services? So we started the business two years ago.
1:11.7	We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.
1:17.3	But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really,
1:21.9	really happy. Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash hello vet.
1:31.3	Let's dive right in.
1:36.0	Hi everyone.
1:38.0	Welcome to a brand new episode of From the Heart.
1:42.4	I am so happy that you're here. I don't know if you can tell by the
1:47.6	sound of my voice, but I am smiling so big. My cheeks hurt. Okay. I am talking to you from the
1:55.6	first day of snow. Okay. I'm looking out at a winter wonderland. The trees are covered in snow,
2:04.5	like the roof of the barn that's right outside my window. It's just bright white.
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