Does It Take a Village To Raise a Child?

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a human on this planet, you know just how important self-care is. That is especially true if you’re a mother. We give absolutely everything to our children: our bodies, our minds, our hearts and our souls. How can there be room left over for us at the end of it? In this episode, Rachel asks a pivotal question: does it truly take a village to raise a child? She shares a hard moment from motherhood, where Finn had an intense moment of crying after arriving at Rachel’s old house in Uppsala. It became so bad that even strangers asked her if she needed help. But the answer may not be found in soldiering through until you get a moment of peace. Is more alone time the right approach on what may already be a lonely journey? Or should we reframe how we approach motherhood by fostering a more supportive community? In a world that often glorifies individualism, this episode will remind you that it’s often shared stories and empathy that bring about the most potential for change. 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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0:00.6	On today's episode of the podcast, I post the question, does it take a village to raise a child?
0:07.6	I talk about self-care during motherhood and how absolutely challenging it is to take good care
0:14.4	of yourself when you're giving everything of yourself away all the time. I talk about the need
0:21.2	of community and how so many of us who are living these roles as mothers and fathers but mostly
0:27.3	mothers are in need of more support and that may be the answer to so many of our problems
0:34.4	isn't finding the time for more self-care but reframing how we look at motherhood and living
0:40.9	lives where we are more in community. I have a lot of questions when it comes to mothering but I
0:47.2	don't have the answer to but I have a feeling we'll be able to figure them out together.
0:52.2	Let's jump in.
0:59.5	Hi everyone. Hi, hi, how are you? Welcome to a brand new episode of From the Heart with Rachel
1:09.6	Breithin. As your host of this show, I got to say, I am in shock that you are still listening
1:20.2	to this podcast. Hi, okay, I'm having a very low self-esteem week this week. I feel like
1:28.7	last week was like a very high self-esteem week. This week is very low. We're doing this rollercoaster
1:34.1	thing where we go high and then we go really low and then we go high again. We never chill in any
1:40.0	sort of grounded in between space. So yeah, I'm just kind of sitting here feeling like I am terrible
1:48.8	at this. I was sitting here doing my little pre-podcast ritual that I do. Instead of tea today,
1:58.5	I'm drinking hot chocolate bone broth like a hot cacao bone broth. If you've never tried it,
2:05.2	I so recommend if you're into bone broth and you want to break from just the regular flavor of a
2:10.8	savory bone broth. My hot cocoa was really nice way to support your gut and get your bone broth in.
2:19.0	But anyway, I was just sitting here, sipping my little broth. I'm absolutely exhausted. I feel
2:26.3	like I'm just the shell of a human being right now. And I was about to start recording. I did my
2:32.4	little, you know, grounding and my little breaths that I take before I hit record. And all I could
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