Still Healing: Mold, Heartbreak and The Story of Bear

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

There are some memories that imprint themselves on our bodies. When we think about them again, those same feelings still linger and make themselves known. And when the time is right, we get presented with opportunities to heal in ways that we couldn’t in the past. In today’s episode, Rachel is four year post mold - and still processing and healing from this very difficult chapter of her life. She goes on a walk down memory lane and shares some stories she hasn’t before, including the full story of Bear, Lea’s stuffed animal. It all leads to where she is right now, feeling sad and grateful at the same time. Tune in for the journey. 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	You know how past experiences sometimes imprint on our bodies? Like our bodies hold the memory
0:08.1	of difficult things that came our way in our past. And when the time is right, we get presented
0:14.2	with opportunities to heal and to respond in ways we couldn't back then. I don't know if this
0:20.4	makes sense to you, but I am on a big
0:23.3	journey right now, processing and healing from a chapter of our lives that was really,
0:28.7	truly difficult. Today's episode of the podcast is a beautiful and heartbreaking walk down memory lane
0:35.6	where I talk about mold, losing our home and almost all of
0:39.7	our belongings. I tell some stories I've never told before and where we are now.
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1:21.5	Let's jump right in.
1:26.2	Hi, friends. Welcome back to the show. I am, to be totally honest, sitting here feeling very nauseous right now. I am very rarely nauseous. Nausea is not a regular thing for me. Don't worry. I'm not pregnant. I'm definitely not pregnant.
1:46.7	That's always the first thing on your mind when you get just a little bit of nausea.
1:52.7	No, definitely not. But I, yeah, I don't know why, actually. I'm thinking, what did I eat this morning?
2:00.3	Did I eat something that was a little bit
2:01.5	off? But no, I made delicious protein pancakes fresh from scratch like I do every morning
2:09.6	that I ate with some cottage cheese. And, oh, I am remembering now what I did. I, okay, so this could be it. I found like an old box
2:24.6	of applesauze from the bottom of the freezer. And I remember I just de-frosted it like, I don't know,
2:31.6	two days ago and put it in the fridge, which is how I do things with most of our things that we preserve in the freezer. And this morning, I was looking at
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