It's my birthday week, so of course this week on the show, we have a big birthday episode.

I reflect on the past year, which I always do every birthday, and particularly this year,

you know, exactly one year ago on my birthday, I took a pregnancy test and found out I was pregnant.

So I talk about this past year, everything that's brought me to where I am now,

and I also end up reflecting on some of the really big, challenging things that have come my way

over the past few years, and how I've finally been able to take those hardships and turn them

around into gratitude. It's taken a couple of years, but I really do feel grateful for those

challenges now. So it's a big, reflective, happy, celebratory episode this week.

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Hi, everyone. Hello, my people. Hello, my friends. Welcome to a brand new episode of From The Heart

with Rachel Braithin. I am smiling so big right now. I'm sitting here in a really,

really messy bedroom. I've kind of given up on just the idea of even making the bed right now.

Anyone who co-sleeps with a newborn, you know the state, the state of the bed. He also naps in this

bed, not every nap, but a lot of naps. So just the state of this bedroom is just chaos. I think I

can count nine pillows and different kinds of blankies and there's like a diaper on the floor

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