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Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

What Are You Controlling and Where Are You Letting Go?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7643 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today’s journaling practice is a bit of an abstract one. Rachel will pose two questions to you. Where have you been too controlling lately? And oppositely, where are you noticing yourself trusting a little bit more? This practice is all about softening - where we are struggling and where we are blooming. Tune in to begin. 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

When was the last time you had space to feel?

0:04.0

With the National Trust, you might just find life standing still under towering trees.

0:10.0

Maybe you'll find connection among the stories of the past,

0:15.0

or a moment to disconnect from it all on a mountainside.

0:20.0

Whatever you're feeling, wherever you are, with the National Trust, you can make space to feel.

0:30.1

Hi friends. Welcome back to Self Care Daily. I hope you're having a beautiful Tuesday so far.

0:41.7

This week on the show, we are doing a little check-in to see where in our lives we are softening right now.

0:50.6

And this is, of course, a very abstract contemplation that we're doing.

0:55.3

You might feel like you don't 100% resonate with that right away.

0:58.7

You might not be in a place where you have noticed things shifting or softening.

1:04.4

And if so, I'm going to post two questions today.

1:07.5

So depending on where you're at, you'll have something to really dive into.

1:11.2

Where in your life would you like to soften? I think that's a beautiful place to begin.

1:18.6

Where in your life would you like to soften? Have you noticed yourself tensing up or freezing up

1:25.4

in certain areas or maybe gripping very tightly, becoming a little bit

1:30.1

controlling or becoming rigid, putting up walls. Sometimes we feel that physically in our bodies,

1:37.2

that we're literally holding tension in different ways. And sometimes that shows up in different

1:42.5

relationships. We become a little bit rigid around a certain

1:45.8

person maybe someone in our family or someone from our past perhaps we're rigid around how we

1:51.8

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2:01.8

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