Were You Born This Way, Or Did You Learn It?

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We spend so much time in our armor, protecting ourselves with layers and layers of conditioning. If we do not have our needs met as children, if we are not seen, heard, appreciated or loved, we subconsciously begin to develop a resilience, an armor of protection. We seek to have our needs met elsewhere and develop coping mechanisms to be healed later in life. In this episode, Rachel reflects on the internal work she is doing, how it is affecting her, her daughter, her husband, and giving her new perspective and presence. Doing this work is not easy. It gets messy, uncomfortable things come up, relationships can be affected, and unfortunately there is not one linear line to healing. But we owe it to ourselves, future generations, our children, our communities, to become aware of our traumas, to begin the journey of peeling back the layers and getting really present with our core wounds. This episode will remind you that it is ok to prioritize self-care, to nurture and care for yourself when you are on the sensitive path of healing, and that it’s better to peel back the layers in order to move through the world with vulnerability and truth. 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	Welcome to a brand new episode of the Yoga Girl podcast conversations from the heart.
0:10.2	I want to start this episode with a moment of grounding right away.
0:16.4	So let's take a comfortable seat.
0:18.5	Yeah, or if you're on the move, on the go, on the car, just whatever ability you have right
0:23.7	now to soften a little bit deeper into yourself.
0:27.7	You know, we have that opportunity all throughout the day, even if we're driving a car with
0:32.6	our eyes open or if we're sitting on a couch back home, the ability to tune our awareness
0:39.8	inward, to slow things down a little bit, to feel into our heart space and to connect
0:46.5	to this place where we are this moment here now.
0:51.5	So allowing yourself to make this connection to your body.
0:57.4	If you can close the eyes, of course, any time we turn off any of our senses, it makes
1:02.0	it a lot easier to listen to what's moving inside of us.
1:06.4	So closing our eyes and turning off any distractions around us, of course, is very, very helpful.
1:13.4	And then go ahead and just place the palms of the hands anywhere onto the body.
1:19.0	I immediately placed both of my hands to my belly just now.
1:23.9	Notice where you intuitively placed your hands in this moment.
1:27.9	We tend to bring our palms to an area of the body where maybe we are in need of a bit
1:33.2	of support or sometimes an area where we're feeling vulnerable or connected.
1:39.1	So if your hands ended up on your heart right now, chances are that you are feeling a lot,
1:46.9	chances are that your body has been telling you it's time to feel a lot that maybe you
1:51.9	haven't had the space or the time.
1:55.6	I placed my hands to my belly just now just because I'm feeling a little bit vulnerable.
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