Living in a Beautiful Broken World

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How is it that we live in a world full of sunflowers, bumblebees, sunshine, toddlers, and delicious cups of coffee - that also has genocide, war, starvation and suffering? How can our minds handle switching between two extremes, holding many emotions at once, and feeling helpless through it all? Is there anything we can really do about it? On today’s episode, Rachel does her best to share how she is navigating the bizarre reality of the world right now. She opens up about how she has been able to find new avenues to be of greater service to those in Gaza, and how it brings all the emotions at once: from heartbreak, loss and grief, to hope, compassion and gratitude. There are things we can do. This episode will help you hold everything at once. After all, it’s all we can do. 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	How is it that we live in a world where there are toddlers and sunflowers and bumblebees
0:08.0	and delicious cups of coffee had in the sun at the same time as there is genocide and war
0:16.1	and starvation and suffering? On today's episode of the podcast, I do my best to share how I am navigating
0:24.5	the bizarre reality of this world right now and how I have been able to find new avenues to be
0:32.5	of greater service, which is both difficult and heartbreaking and brings hope all at the same time.
0:44.0	It's another episode of the show, so let's dive in.
0:50.9	Hi friends, welcome, welcome, welcome. Time for a brand new episode of From the Heart with
0:59.8	Yours Truly. I am sitting here right now with my hand to my heart. I feel like it's a really fragile
1:10.6	time to be alive. I hope you're feeling good. I hope you are just
1:17.6	nourished in every way that you are at the end of this summer arriving at a place of feeling just
1:25.1	whole. I hope you've been eating lots and delicious and nourishing foods.
1:33.3	I hope you've been moving. I hope you're hydrated. I hope you feel good. I hope you feel loved and
1:41.3	like you belong and rested. I hope this summer brought you lots of rest. You might hear
1:49.4	the sounds of roosters in the background. It's endless. So we currently, I don't know how many
1:58.4	roosters I have on the farm. We have Roland, our main rooster, and then a bunch of our baby chicks that have now grown up and are in that teenage phase have turned out to be roosters as they often do.
2:11.2	And they are in like a crowing competition.
2:14.0	They're all figuring out their crow for the first time, which sounds really hilarious.
2:18.8	And they're just crowing at each other all day long. So we have like a symphony of sounds happening
2:25.6	on the farm. And the funniest thing, I don't know why, but the moment I step on the porch
2:31.8	and I say something, like it's not like I'm calling them or I just,
2:37.8	yeah, I say something to bear or I say good morning or, you know, and then all of the ducks at the
2:43.3	same time, they just start quacking and then one quack will lead to the other quack being louder.
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