Embracing the Magic of the Mess

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In today’s episode, Rachel will guide you through a gratitude practice. First, you will consider something in your life that is working in perfect orderly fashion. Then you will consider something in your life that is really messy but brings you happiness still. There can be beauty in all things, if only you look for it. 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	Hi friends, welcome back to the show. Happy Wednesday. We are talking about the messiness of life here on the show and
0:13.3	giving our inner perfectionist a little bit of space and a little bit of contemplation just to see
0:20.0	where we are holding on and gripping really
0:22.9	tightly, trying to have things be perfect all the time. Today, I want to offer up a little
0:29.2	gratitude practice. I want to take a moment right here, just as you are, to tune in to two
0:35.8	opposing things that are actually very, very connected.
0:40.5	I want to take a moment to tune into some gratitude for something that is working in its
0:47.7	perfectly orderly fashion in your life. An area of your life, this can even be a room in your
0:54.0	house or like a drawer in a cabinet or your life. An area of your life, this can even be a room in your house or like a drawer in a
0:56.6	cabinet or your closet or something that feels just perfectly put together. It could be a relationship.
1:05.8	It can be this whole dynamic that you have going on with a person in your life. It can be something that
1:11.6	has to do with your work, like a project or a flow that you return to when it comes to a routine
1:17.8	or something like that in your day today where something is just right. Do you know what I mean?
1:22.3	Something's just kind of working. It feels really perfect. Like you have it all together in this one space. Maybe it's just a
1:30.5	tiny little corner, right? Maybe you feel like your whole life sometimes, but at least you have this
1:33.9	one little corner where things are just kind of working. What is something you're grateful for
1:39.7	that is totally organized and working just right, right at this moment in your life.
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