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From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Lessons in Motherhood, Community, and Learning to Ask For Help

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.74.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Rachel shares a heartfelt update on motherhood, which includes everything from sleep, to running a household, taking care of yourself, and being a working mom. After a really intense day alone with Finn, she finds herself coming to a big revelation: she needs help. It’s never easy to ask for or receive help. But maybe this craving deeply weaves into our longing for community. Rachel shares her thoughts on how to go about creating more togetherness and what society could look like if we supported each other in a more natural, symbiotic way. Maybe it all begins with learning to ask for help. If you’ve been moving through similar feelings lately, tune in to not feel so alone. 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, we talk about sleep, which seems to be one of the only

0:07.0

things I'm able to fully talk about right now, but we venture into the area of independence.

0:14.5

And I ask a really big question, or I state a big statement that's really hard for me

0:20.0

to do. Speaking the words, I need help. I know I'm not the only one who has a hard time

0:26.8

asking for help and receiving help in a big way. And I talk about how that deeply weaves

0:33.0

into our longing for community and that proverbial village that we all want to create. How can

0:39.8

we actually manifest a life where we are more interwoven and connected? And does it begin

0:46.1

by asking the question, please help me? I don't know.

0:52.6

How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I be the bills? How do I pay the bills?

1:00.0

I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. The questions, the fears,

1:05.6

the need to know. How do I know? Because I'm living with cancer too. That's why I joined

1:12.4

the McMillan Online Community and we can help people like you, whatever you need to ask.

1:19.7

Join us, search McMillan Online Community. Let's dive in.

1:27.1

Hello, everyone. Hello, hello, dear friends. My village, my people. Hi.

1:36.8

Hi, that was like a pretty full little hi. Welcome to a brand new episode of the show.

1:42.2

And welcome to an episode that I have literally sat down to record, not once, twice, three times.

1:48.9

Now, four times today that I sit down to record this show and thought I could kind of

1:55.9

piece together an episode and I would somehow work. I sat down this morning, put the baby to bed,

2:03.6

the baby now sleeps in bed. So I thought I've had a couple of days of just big changes happening

2:10.2

here at the house where instead of bouncing on a Pilates ball all day with the baby strapped

2:16.1

in a sling or in a carrier, I've put a lot of big work into just getting him to sleep in a dark

2:22.0

quiet room, which has worked really well for three days. So today, Dennis was a way he's working.

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