What Brings You Joy That You Turned Into Work?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s practice will give you a little bit of a reality check. Is there something that used to bring you joy, but that you attached an expectation to? We are so great at doing this as adults. We take something we love, and we put pressure on it, or we need to have it look a certain way, or we turn it into work. And suddenly, it has lost that innocence and playfulness that was there at the beginning. Rachel shares some great examples from her own life, then it’s time for you to check your own patterns as well. 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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0:34.5	Hi friends. Welcome back to Self-Care Daily and welcome back to a week that I hope is really
0:40.4	joyful for you. Today, I want to give us a little bit of a reality check by tuning into
0:48.2	something that brings you a lot of joy or that at some point in your life brought you a lot of joy,
0:55.6	but as an adult,
1:00.8	you've made it into a little bit of a chore. Or as an adult, you've taken this thing that makes you happy and you've created pressure around it, or this need to create something specific
1:08.4	from it, or this idea of it having to succeed or look a certain way
1:12.9	in the eyes of the rest of the world. We are really good at adults at doing this. We take something
1:18.4	that as children, it was just for fun, just for play, just for us. And all of a sudden we go,
1:23.4	well, we have to do a really great job at this thing, right? We have to get really good at this thing
1:28.3	that makes us happy, whether this is a hobby or a passion or something you do for self-care or a
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