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Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

How to Ease the Most Stressful Part of Your Day

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7643 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What is the most stressful moment of your day? Is your morning chaotic no matter how much you prepare? Is a meeting at work really unproductive? Is getting dinner on the table each night incredibly stressful? Whatever it may be, there is an underlying reason for it. And sometimes the little voice in our head is the most stressful part of it all. This episode will counter that voice and ease some of the weight. 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. Welcome back to Self Care Daily. And welcome to a week

0:11.5

where we are slowing things down a little bit. What I want to do today is take a moment to pinpoint

0:19.3

the most stressful moment of your day. And yep, this might not

0:25.4

sound like a fun practice. Who wants to relive the most stressful moment of our day? But since

0:30.2

chances are you are not feeling stressed right at this moment because you're listening to this

0:36.1

podcast, which is something that's really hard to do if you're feeling totally stressed out. So I moment because you're listening to this podcast, which is something that's

0:37.7

really hard to do if you're feeling totally stressed out. So I'm assuming you're kind of grounded

0:42.5

as you're listening to this. Take a moment to identify the most stressful moment of your day.

0:49.6

Perhaps it's a recurring thing and it's the same time of day every single day where things just kind

0:56.8

of come together in a little bit of a shitstorm and you end up finding yourself feeling

1:01.2

totally overwhelmed and frustrated and stressed out no matter what. I know for a lot of parents,

1:07.8

me included, there's this moment in the morning time where no matter how

1:13.3

much we prepare or no matter what time in the morning we wake up, everything just gets really,

1:19.2

really intense and really stressful. And for some reason, we're almost always late every single day.

1:24.9

And for a lot of parents, this is just a fundamental truth when it comes to

1:29.0

having small kids in the house. If you're not a parent, you might have a totally different thing

1:34.7

going on. You might have a totally different time of day that feels stressful. And if you're a parent,

1:39.8

this might also not apply to you. Maybe it's just my kids. I don't know. But perhaps there's a moment in

1:45.1

your day when you're at work where you start to feel a lot of pressure. Perhaps it's that

1:50.0

specific recurring meeting that you end up finding yourself in that feels really unproductive

1:55.6

or where you're feeling pressured or not appreciated. Maybe it's whenever you have a looming deadline and you just don't

2:03.0

have everything ready. Perhaps the thing causing you stress is a person and there's a moment

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