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From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today’s episode begins with Rachel talking a little bit about their family vacation to Tenerife. It was a nourishing time spent doing nothing but reading and lounging on the beach. And sometimes that is exactly what you need in a vacation. As Rachel goes down memory lane, she starts telling the story of how she fell in love with her husband 15 years ago in Aruba. Their origin story is one for the books! It has it all, from chance encounters to moving abroad on a whim. And here they are all these years later, still more in love than ever. Tune in for an episode that will make you believe in fate, fighting for what you love, and the beauty of coming out on the other side. 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 start by telling you just a tiny bit about the vacation that we
0:06.4	just had as a family, but I end up telling you the story of how I fell in love with my husband.
0:11.5	And our origin story really is one for the books. It's my favorite story to tell, and it just
0:18.7	fills my heart with so much joy and warmth and love.
0:23.0	And I really hope you enjoy listening to this podcast.
0:30.3	Let's jump in.
0:34.7	All right, my loves, welcome back to the show. Welcome to a brand new episode of From the Heart.
0:42.9	I am talking to you today a little bit tan, actually, which is very surprising. We just came home late,
0:53.5	late, late last night from a week in Tenerife, which has been
0:58.3	so beautiful. It was really a last minute trip. We, we're struggling a little bit. The longer
1:06.1	we live in Sweden, it's getting a little bit worse year for year. But we, and when I say we, I mean mostly
1:12.2	my husband, we are struggling a little bit with the darkness and the length of the winter.
1:19.6	The first year when we moved to Sweden, it was just pure excitement and adventure. The next year
1:26.4	also was so incredibly beautiful, so much snow. And then it got
1:31.2	like a little bit difficult the next winter. You know, it just like kind of it started to feel like
1:36.9	a little bit of a drag. For me, I struggle with March. It's like winter has been ongoing now for
1:42.9	so long. Can it just be over like that forever waiting for spring? Like I really struggle with that. And Dennis really struggles with November, where we are right now, where we haven't hit Christmas season. It's not snowing yet. It's not cold enough to actually feel like a winter. And it's also not bright enough. Like in the
2:02.5	wintertime when it starts to snow, it brightens everything up. November, it's just getting
2:07.5	darker and darker. And it's also really wet and muddy. And yeah, I get that he that he kind
2:13.5	of struggles with this month a lot too. But last winter was the first winter for us living in
2:20.0	Sweden where we decided, okay, we need to travel more. We need to go places. We need to do something
2:27.3	in the wintertime to kind of like stretch the ability to have a bit of sunshine on our skin and some daylight. And yeah, so we decided right
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