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Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Can You Do Something That Scares You?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7643 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It may sound like a cliché, but doing something that scares you - and stepping outside of your comfort zone a little bit - is the only way you’re going to grow, expand, and evolve. And that is exactly what we are going to do for this week’s self-care practice. You can go as big or as small as you like, but do something that scares you and see how your world changes. Rachel shares some great ideas to get started. Tune in to begin. 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

I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.

0:02.0

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0:05.0

I've ruled out uni because of my grades.

0:10.0

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0:13.0

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0:17.0

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0:23.6

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0:33.6

Hi friends. Welcome back to Self Care Daily and welcome to our final practice of this week.

0:41.1

As you already know in true Leo fashion, we have decided to dedicate this week to bravery.

0:48.6

So finding out where in our lives we are feeling uncomfortable or challenged or small and where we need to source

0:57.0

a little bit of courage to stand up for what's right, to speak up for what's right, to set

1:02.7

boundaries where we need to and to support the people that maybe right now in this world

1:07.5

don't have a voice and don't get to be heard. Yesterday, I asked you where in your

1:13.5

life you are being called to be brave right now. And I trust that in different ways, we are all

1:19.6

being called to take up more space and to stand up for the thing we know is right. And that requires

1:25.5

bravery. And finding that bravery means we need to rely on

1:29.2

and source that inner strength that I know you have inside, that I know I have inside. And a little

1:37.0

practice I want us to do today is something that you can take into your life and make as big or as small

1:44.1

as you want.

1:45.5

And it might sound like a cliche.

1:47.6

And I find most cliches to actually be really true at the end of the day anyway.

1:51.9

But I want you today and at some point throughout the weekend to do something that scares you.

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