Gaza and Red Currant Jam: Navigating Our Day to Day While The World Is On Fire

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How is it possible to manage our anxiety when everything feels like it’s on fire? In today’s episode, Rachel talks about two separate worlds: Gaza, and where she is in Sweden, making red currant jam. How can these two worlds exist simultaneously? She shares more about a family she has been helping in Gaza, and how sometimes experiencing that anxiety and letting ourselves marinate in the suffering of the world can actually propel us into taking more action. On the other hand though, Rachel goes deeper on how we have to keep our feet planted on the ground at the same time. We have to continue to immerse ourselves in the little things that make life feel good and remind ourselves that beautiful things do still exist. We have to make the red currant jam. Tune in for an insightful episode that will remind you of your duty to this world. 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, I talk about navigating your way through anxiety caused by
0:07.3	the world being literally on fire and how sometimes experiencing that anxiety and allowing
0:14.5	ourselves to marinate and a little bit of the suffering of the world can actually
0:19.1	propel us into doing something more, taking more action.
0:24.0	And on the other end of that, how we have to keep our feet on the ground at the same time
0:29.2	and continue to immerse ourselves in the little things that make life feel good
0:34.8	and that remind us that life is also here where we stand now. So essentially
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1:25.5	Hi loves. Hello, hello. How are we doing today? Welcome to a brand new episode of the show.
1:34.8	Welcome to second week of August. We are definitely nearing what we call here in Sweden,
1:42.8	Sien Somer, which has this very romantic and also fleeting energy to it.
1:51.0	So San Somat just means late summer. But when you say it in Swedish, it sort of implies, I don't know, it implies harvest season. It implies the end of something. It implies fall is just
2:05.9	around the corner. It implies kind of every warm summer day that we have from this moment on is
2:12.6	like one to be really grateful for because you don't know when fall is going to arrive.
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