Birthdays, Body Image, and Tough Conversations

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of From the Heart, it’s almost Rachel’s birthday! She shares her plans for the weekend and something big happening next week. Birthdays are usually a time to contemplate where you’ve been, where you’re going, and where you are right now. But this birthday, Rachel feels like she is wearing her heart on her sleeve. A lot is moving around her and inside her - and it’s a beautiful and difficult time to be alive! She shares everything weighing on her, and discussions she has had with her daughter around body image and how to love yourself. Here’s to asking yourself big questions, big answers, and birthday weekends. Tune in for an uplifting episode that will remind you it is a gift to age. 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	on today's episode of the podcast it is almost my birthday and as i tend to do around birthdays i'm
0:07.4	contemplating where i've been where i'm going and what life is like right here right now i very
0:14.9	much feel like my heart is on my sleeve these days and that a lot is moving both around me and
0:20.6	inside me it's a beautiful and
0:24.1	difficult time to be alive. And I'm asking myself big questions. And strangely, my daughter is
0:30.8	asking herself similar questions and how do we parent our children as they move through things
0:37.4	that we struggle with, too?
0:40.3	It's a strange time to be alive, and I'm really grateful I get to celebrate 37 with all of you.
0:50.0	Let's jump in.
0:54.2	All right, my loves, my friends, welcome to a brand new episode of From the Heart.
1:01.8	I'm not going to lie, I have already cried twice this morning and it's only 9 a.m. It's like 8.45. It's yeah, 8.46 a.m. as I'm recording this and
1:18.2	and I've already cried twice. I am very much speaking to you from the heart, feeling like my heart is not just on my sleeve. I really,
1:31.2	that's such a beautiful saying, by the way, wearing your heart on your sleeve. Like, yeah,
1:36.0	I just love that saying. Whatever is the more intense version of that, that feeling of definitely
1:43.3	having your heart outside your body,
1:47.5	exposed and soft and raw and open to the world to see.
1:56.1	And I honestly, there's a lot that has just brought me to this place.
2:01.9	First of all, it's my birthday week. So as you're listening to this, I'm two days away from my birthday. And I'm feeling
2:08.3	a little bit ambivalent about, yeah, this birthday for some reason. I sometimes, some years, I feel a little bit overwhelmed about the idea of a birthday.
2:21.8	Like I, like it's a lot of pressure to put together something or to celebrate or to host
2:28.1	something or I don't know.
2:30.5	Something about it feels a little bit overwhelming to me.
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