How to Be a Little Bit More Selfish and Why It’s So Important

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Rachel is navigating the uncharted territory of making a big project happen while avoiding burnout. She has been tweaking her current routine and realizing, certain things make her feel better even when her to-do list is full of tasks. It’s those things that need to be prioritized. But as women, prioritizing ourselves can feel so challenging. Everything we do is for others - even self-care! We practice self-care to be better moms or kinder neighbors. What do we really do for ourselves? This episode will help you ask some really important questions, like what would happen if you allowed yourself to be a little bit more selfish? What would happen if you did things just because they brought you joy, not because they were useful or served the world? What if the point isn’t the doing, but it’s taking the time to pour presence and love into yourself? We may not have all the answers, but asking these questions can bring us one step closer to healing. 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 the uncharted territory of making a big project happen while avoiding burnout, which is something I genuinely don't know how to do.
0:12.6	I talk about connecting with our inner wild woman and how as women, we oftentimes look at self-care as something that we do and we justify
0:22.0	by saying it's going to make us into better people. When I take good care of myself, I become a
0:27.3	better mother, a better coworker, a better neighbor. And I ask, what would happen if we did
0:33.4	more things just for us? What would happen if we allowed ourselves to actually be selfish? If we spent
0:41.8	more time doing the thing that brings us joy just because it brings us joy, not because it's
0:47.8	useful or will serve the world, but just because it actually might serve us. I don't have the answers to all of these questions,
0:55.8	but I feel like asking them is bringing me one step closer toward healing. So join me on the journey.
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1:40.4	And we are back. Hi, everyone. My people, my loves, my friends, welcome. It's time for a brand new
1:49.3	episode of your favorite podcast. I am so happy to be here. Feeling very energized right now,
1:56.5	I have to say, sitting in my little podcast corner, it is full on summer outside. I don't know
2:03.4	what's going on in Sweden, but it took all of summer for summer to happen. June has been the
2:11.1	coldest, rainiest, like all the way up until now, it's just been, it weird i don't know it's been so weird it's been so
2:20.8	cold and weird we decided to book a last minute trip to go to greece for a week just to make sure
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