What Brings Light to Your Life During Dark Times?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Just like we love to light candles in our home during the winter, we need little things we can turn toward to bring light into dark situations in our lives. What helps you through difficult times? In today’s episode, Rachel will share examples from her own life, and then it’s your turn to reflect on the resources that support you when everything feels dark and heavy. 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	Hi friends. Welcome back to the show. I hope you're doing amazing today. We are going to talk a little bit
0:12.3	about resources here on the show today. So we're talking about darkness and this being the dark
0:17.7	season of the year. And when I talk about resources, what I really mean is
0:22.9	things that you have available to you in your life that help bring you some light into a very
0:30.2	dark time. So that doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with a specific season that we're in
0:36.0	right now, but seasons of life
0:39.0	that feel dark and heavy. And yes, sometimes for us, they also coincide with a dark season
0:44.3	outside our doorstep. And similarly to how we love lighting candles in our house when it's
0:50.0	dark outside or lighting fires or making cozy little areas and having that light be brought into
0:57.2	our homes. We also need to have things to turn to that bring light into dark situations. So if you
1:06.6	are going through or when you are going through a really dark time or a difficult time. And this could be
1:11.7	a difficult day, a difficult season, just a difficult thing coming up in your life. What is something
1:18.4	that you know for sure helps you bring some light into that situation? Something that brings a
1:26.1	flicker or a glimmer of light into your life.
1:29.3	What helps to light you back up when your mood is really dark or when you feel really
1:34.8	dark and heavy mentally when the world feels like a dark place, when everything feels
1:39.3	hopeless and difficult?
1:41.3	What brings light into your heart?
1:48.2	Okay. and difficult. What brings light into your heart? When I think about the answer to that question myself, I immediately start to smile a little
1:53.0	bit because for me, I see the image in my mind just of my children's faces and I see their
2:00.3	smile and I feel inside of my heart their joy and their ability to bring light and play and joy into every situation, no matter how dark things may feel. For me, a resource that I will continue to turn to for as long as I live is present time spent with my
2:20.0	family. That's a big one. That's a sure way for me to feel light when the world feels really
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