What Is Your Relationship to Your Inner World?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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This time of year can make us feel really cooped up. We spend more time inside, we aren’t really growing or expanding, and we have slowed down. But maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be! In today’s episode, you will go inward and consider all the ways you can explore your relationship with yourself during this time. Rachel shares some beautiful examples. 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 everyone, welcome back to Self-Care Daily. I hope you're having a beautiful day today.
0:10.7	This week on the show, we are exploring both darkness and light. We are here in the northern
0:18.7	hemisphere getting close to the darkest part of the darkest season of the year.
0:24.4	And I think for many of us, this time of year is challenging in many ways.
0:29.7	The days are really short.
0:31.5	The weather could be tricky.
0:33.2	Maybe we're not spending enough time or as much time as we would like outside.
0:37.1	We're more cooped up inside of our homes. And we're sort spending enough time or as much time as we would like outside. We're more cooped up
0:38.3	inside of our homes and we're sort of struggling with this wanting to live life in the same way
0:46.6	that we do in the summertime or the same way that we do in the spring, where everything is
0:51.7	happening in the external world and everything is expanding and growing.
0:55.8	And we feel like we have to continue to expand and grow and build all the time and every season of life.
1:03.7	And I would love for us to contemplate today and throughout this week what it actually would feel like to have our inner world and our actions
1:13.3	in our day-to-day life reflect a little bit more of what's actually happening in the season
1:19.1	around us, meaning that during this time of year, we're actually meant to go more inward.
1:26.8	Inward as in, yes, we go more inside of our homes. Yes, we find our little
1:31.4	bubbles. We gather around the hearth. We sit and circle around our dining tables, we're with our loved
1:36.8	ones. And also, we're going inward as inside of ourselves. This is a season for rest. It's a season for replenishing our stores.
1:49.3	It's definitely a season of slowing down and a time where it's more natural for us to explore
1:56.3	our inner world than it is to continue bringing energy into the external. And living in this world
2:03.9	where we're constantly validated for what we do in the outside world, it can be really tricky
2:09.8	to actually feel that there is a huge worth and a huge value in exploring our own insightsides. So what is your relationship to your inner world?
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