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Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

What Are You Fighting Hard to Control?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7643 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode offers you a journaling practice with a very important question: in what area of your life are you trying to be perfect? Where are you fighting for control? It may be in your job, your relationships, or even your body. But - trying to control ourselves, or outcomes, or the world is a losing battle. It can feel really good to take a deep breath and allow mistakes and imperfections. Tune in to see how this shows up in your life and if there’s anything you want to change. 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

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0:03.0

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0:07.0

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0:12.0

Is it looking to iron out tiredness with Vitobiotics Ferroglobin?

0:16.0

Or is your body simply saying,

0:18.0

You got to show me love.

0:20.0

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0:23.9

Magnesium contributes to normal energy, yielding, metabolism,

0:26.2

protein contributes to the growth in maintenance and muscle mass.

0:28.2

Ion contributes to a reduction of tightness and fatigue.

0:34.4

Hi friends.

0:35.8

Welcome back to the show and welcome back to a week dedicated to a bit of messiness.

0:42.9

We are getting our hands dirty this week and I wanted to kick us off by taking a moment to tune

0:49.3

into that one thing that you have in your life or that one whole area of your life where you are

0:56.6

fighting really hard to make things be a certain way. That part of your appearance perhaps or that part

1:08.4

of your house, maybe when you're entertaining, or how you perform in your life

1:13.8

at work, or how you mother or father or take care of your kids, that area of you where you are

1:20.4

trying so hard to be perfect. And we all do this in different ways. Some of us have these tendencies in all of our,

1:29.6

all the areas of our lives. Some of it have it in just certain times or certain areas.

1:34.5

But we all do this. We all have a sense of wanting things to be just so, right?

1:42.1

Wanting things to look a certain way, wanting ourselves to look a certain way,

1:46.7

or to be a certain way, or show ourselves a certain way, where we get very, very nitpicky.

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