Head vs. Heart: The Internal Struggle of Finding Purpose in Rest and Balance in Work

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As multifaceted human beings, we are able to hold so much within ourselves at once. Our hearts guide us toward pleasure, joy, and rest. Our minds lead us to create, to work, and to find purpose. But what happens if these two parts of our being are at odds with one another? How can we find internal balance between the give and take? Today’s episode will illuminate the way. Rachel begins with some space to breathe and tune into your own needs. She then discusses her experience in shifting from a hustle and grind lifestyle to something more sustainable and restful. It hasn’t been an easy journey! It has taken years to identify ingrained values from society, what our parents taught us to be truth, and how to reconcile this with who we really are. If you’re locked in an internal battle between slowing down and meeting goals, if you’re searching for worthiness, if the inner critical voice is exhausting you, tune in to find a new pace in life. 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This week on the show I talk about rest and I get deep into that internal
0:07.9	struggle that I think so many of us recognize between our hearts and our heads.
0:13.4	Our hearts telling us to lean into joy and to play and to purpose and then our
0:20.2	heads telling us we should get more work done and we should hustle and we
0:23.4	should grind. I unpack my own experience shifting from that hustle and grind
0:30.3	energy into something more restful and how I'm navigating landing in this
0:35.6	totally new pace in life. It's a good episode.
0:42.9	Welcome, welcome, welcome, my darlings. It's that time of the week. It's time for
0:49.5	up for a new episode of the Yoga Girl podcast conversations from the heart. I
0:55.7	hope whatever this week has brought you so far that you're feeling good. I
1:04.1	really sense this big longing in my whole entire body for us all, all of us
1:10.5	collectively, to just have a really good week. Not just a week where we're kind of
1:16.8	getting by or a week that isn't shit or a week that isn't at least a little bit
1:21.7	better than last week, which was horrible. A week that's great, like a good week,
1:28.0	a week where we just look back on Sunday and we look back at the week and we're
1:33.1	like, man, this was a good one. I have the feeling right now that a lot of us,
1:40.7	we've kind of lowered our bar a little bit around what it actually means to
1:46.1	feel good, what it means to have a good day, what it means to have a good week,
1:49.2	what it means to have a good life with all the stuff that we are moving
1:53.8	through collectively and all the collective hardship and pain in a world that
1:59.5	just feels like it's accelerating more and more and not getting back to normal,
2:04.2	but propelling into crazier times. I don't know, that's kind of how I feel.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rachel Brathen, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Rachel Brathen and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.