Balancing Joy and Suffering, Parenting Struggles, and A Beautiful Life

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Life comes with ups and downs, but that doesn’t mean they are easy to manage. How do we feel joy when there is also pain? And how do we navigate the shame that comes with it? If you’ve been working through this lately, today’s episode is for you. Rachel discusses the duality of life that so many of us are experiencing right now. Through a personal example, she shares the fairly challenging phase she is going through with her daughter. And how even though it’s hard, this is still one of the most beautiful times of their lives. At the end of the show, Rachel shares some exciting news (hint: it may involve new life classes on yogagirl.com!). It takes courage to take a step back and process before you react, but this is the practice. Nothing will ever be perfect, so we can only learn to take the challenges as they come and never hold back from our joy. 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	Welcome back to the show on today's episode of the podcast. I cover a lot.
0:05.3	We start off by talking about the duality of things that I think so many of us are experiencing right now.
0:11.4	The high highs and the low lows.
0:13.9	There is so much suffering in this world and there is also so much beauty and I think we are all feeling this on a collective level
0:21.3	and also personally inside of ourselves.
0:23.8	So how do we allow ourselves to feel joy and to honor the greatness of our own lives when there is also pain?
0:31.7	Right? Is that allowed? Is that okay?
0:34.0	And how do we navigate the shame that comes up in those areas?
0:37.8	I also talk about parenting quite a bit because I happen to be in a fairly challenging phase with my daughter right now.
0:46.2	So if anyone has any advice, you know, hit me up.
0:48.7	At the very end of the show, I share some big, exciting news. So stay tuned for that.
0:58.3	Hello, my darlings. Welcome back to the show. It's time for a brand new episode of the Yoga Girl podcast conversations from the heart.
1:09.6	I hope you are well. I really do. I hope you are well.
1:14.9	I am sensing such a such a duality in the world right now, a duality in my own life, just the split feeling of everywhere I look.
1:28.9	There is a lot of suffering and there is also so much beauty at the same time.
1:35.7	And I'm experiencing this on a very personal level just in my own family and inside of myself.
1:42.3	And it's easy to tell looking out at the world with everything that's going on.
1:48.3	I feel like I've used that kind of euphemism instead of getting really specific about the painful events that are happening everywhere because there are too many to count.
2:00.3	I've been saying that since pandemic, you know, with everything going on in the world and like, I know you know what I mean.
2:08.3	It's just it's just so much, you know, off the top of my head, I mean, we have Ukraine, obviously going on a long time.
2:19.3	Russia feeling feels really, really intense now what we're seeing in the news. Puerto Rico, Iran, I mean Pakistan.
2:31.3	There's just so much pain in the world, so much suffering, so many unfair things happening.
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