How to Be Human: Allowing Your Feelings, Acknowledging the Pain, and Staying Connected to Your Heart

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Being human comes with many emotions and even more fragile moments. If you’re having a hard time taking it all in lately, today’s episode will remind you that you’re not alone. Rachel begins the show with a much-needed check-in. Take some space to allow yourself to be the way you are before diving deeper into today’s topic. After receiving some personal news about her family, Rachel is feeling a little hopeless as she reflects on the state of the world and the suffering found around every corner. When life as we know it crumbles in a single day, there is one place you can turn: community. Stay close to your family, to your loved ones, and to your own heart. Vulnerability reminds us that we are in this together. Tune in to crack your heart wide open. 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	Hello, hello, hello, welcome to a brand new episode of the Yoga Girl podcast conversations
0:10.6	from the heart.
0:13.0	I am speaking to you right now from coming out of the end of a couple of consecutively
0:23.4	just very emotional and raw days.
0:27.4	I'm having one of those days today where I feel like I'm kind of regaining my balance
0:31.8	a little bit or gathering myself again after what's been just a very intense and hard
0:37.3	and overwhelming week in the mid 11 and 10s and hard and overwhelming month.
0:42.4	So I am curled up in my little podcast chair, managed to get my recorder starting today.
0:49.6	I had a moment where I thought I broke my podcast recorder, which for me would be disastrous.
0:56.0	But I didn't and I'm here and I have this perfect little one hour window right now to share
1:03.4	and to talk to you before I go pick Leah up from preschool.
1:07.2	And I don't know where to start to be honest.
1:11.9	I don't know where to start.
1:13.5	I've had one of those weeks where I mean we've all had one of these months because there's
1:17.7	just so much going on everywhere and it's a lot of pain, palpable and felt in this world.
1:24.5	And I've had a particularly challenging couple of days just now and I'm kind of coming
1:31.0	out on the other end of that.
1:32.5	So I'm feeling a little bit raw and a little bit unsteady and all over the place.
1:39.9	So before we dive in, how about we take a moment to ground?
1:48.1	So wherever you are, if you want to close your eyes, close your eyes.
1:53.5	If it serves you better in this moment to keep them open, just soften your gaze a little
1:59.7	bit and find a spot somewhere in front of you for your gaze to rest at.
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