Netflix, Chocolate Cake and The Cycle of Shame

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Are you exhausted from battling your inner critic all day? Are you struggling with limiting beliefs leading to a cycle of numbing behaviors? In this episode Rachel shares about the struggle with her own inner critic, the behaviors she has been using to cope, and how she is learning to find peace in slowing down. We all cope with some type of self-medication. Who doesn’t want to sit on the couch, drink wine, eat cake and watch Netflix after a long exhausting day? Most of us are guilty of trading yoga for an evening on the couch in our yoga pants or choosing a tub of Ben & Jerry’s over that kale salad. It’s not so much about what you do, but why you do it! Ice cream, wine and chocolate cake are wonderful things to enjoy, but when we use food and alcohol as a way to numb ourselves chances are we need some help to come back to ourselves. Consciously moving from a place of numbing your feelings to feeling your feelings and prioritizing the practices that help you care for yourself are critical keys to feeling good in our day-to-day. This podcast will remind you to listen to your inner best friend, find compassion for yourself along the way, feel your feelings, talk it out, go to therapy, give yourself a break, journal, and use all the healing tools you need to consciously quiet that inner critic. 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 you guys, welcome back to the Yoga Girl podcast conversations from the heart.
0:08.0	I am sitting here in my house having just completely cried my eyes out.
0:15.9	I cried three times today so far and it is 10.04 am.
0:22.2	I feel like I'm doing pretty well on that front right now.
0:26.0	I have a lot of things to share, so much moving inside of me, a lot of big
0:30.7	realizations that have come my way this week but I would love for us to, before I
0:36.0	dive in, I would love for us to take a moment just to ground and center ourselves
0:40.4	a little bit. So wherever you are, doesn't matter if you're sitting down or
0:45.8	standing up or out for a walk, but wherever you are, take a moment to pause so
0:51.9	you can close your eyes. Just pausing so you can close your eyes.
0:58.2	Let's take a moment just to tune into the body a little bit here so if you have
1:03.7	any tension lingering anywhere in the body, make a conscious choice to soften a
1:11.0	little bit. Let's see if you can let your shoulders drop, let your face soften,
1:20.4	and let your belly all the way go. Let your belly go. We usually have quite a
1:28.2	lot of holding on in certain areas of the body. For a lot of us it's the shoulders
1:32.3	the neck, the belly. See if you can consciously just choose to soften these areas
1:39.0	of the body a little bit. And then your face as well, relaxing the forehead, your jaw.
1:47.7	Even that little space you have at the very back of the ears, let everything go
1:52.4	for a moment. Let's take a really deep breath in right here.
2:02.1	Exhale it all away. Let's tune into this very simple but very profound
2:11.4	question. How are you feeling right now? I mean how are you really feeling
2:21.3	right now? How are you doing? So not on that surface level of how we tend to
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