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From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Testing for COVID-19, Working Through Fear and Making Sense of a Global Pandemic

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.75.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

As coronavirus has the entire world in its grip, this global energy of fear has left many of us in a place of uncertainty. Will there be a resource shortage? Why isn’t everyone self-isolating? And what if the most unlikely happens, as it seems to be happening every day? In times of such uncertainty, many of us are feeling emotions we have never felt before – and many past traumas may find themselves resurfacing. In this week’s episode, Rachel shares the series of events that brought the small island of Aruba, and her own family, from indifference about the coronavirus to complete pandemonium. Living on a desert island that has three grocery stores dependent on imports, and one hospital with four ventilators, Rachel found herself spiraling into familiar feelings of lack, grasping for control and fearing the unknown. It all cumulated into one of the hardest days of Rachel’s life – when her daughter experienced her first trauma after being called to be tested for the virus by the Aruban government. As this virus creates harder days for us all, and especially the most vulnerable, we have to do what we can to find a balance between indifference and pandemonium, between severity and humanity, and between holding on and letting go. The answer can be found in creating community wherever we can, in feeling our feelings and holding space for others to feel theirs, and in rooting ourselves in knowing that some days may be harder than others – but we can take it one day at a time. 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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0:40.5

Welcome to the Yoga Girl podcast.

0:42.8

I hope wherever you are right now that you are safe.

0:47.3

I want to start off and just right off the bat say I have been trying very very hard not to

0:54.1

break down, not to cry, not to fully allow myself to feel the extent of everything I'm feeling right now.

1:04.1

And sitting down just to record this, I know I'm going to cry.

1:08.8

So this is going to be a dear full podcast if I have to pause and blow my nose halfway through.

1:14.4

I apologize in advance.

1:16.1

So these coronavirus times, I've had so many moments over the past week

1:23.8

that have felt like otherworldly that have felt this can't be happening.

1:29.2

That have felt unbelievable.

1:32.1

Like I can't believe this is where we are.

1:34.8

And so many moments have I just paused and gone, okay,

1:39.4

well I'm going to talk about this on the podcast this week.

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