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Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

What Was Your Biggest Struggle In 2025?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7643 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We are going deeper today as we continue to process 2025. Today’s inquiry will ask you - what was your biggest struggle this year? Be careful not to answer the question too quickly. Grab your journal, open it up, and write what was hard. And don’t forget to ask yourself the most important question - did you learn something from it? 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

This podcast is for everyone seeking truth, meaning, vitality of spirit, and a deep flourishing of their overall well-being.

0:11.3

If any of what is shared in this podcast resonates with a single soul and helps them transform their pain into health and purpose,

0:20.1

then my job is done.

0:25.4

Welcome to Elemental. Enjoy.

0:34.3

Okay, my darlings, happy Thursday. Welcome back to Self Care Daily and welcome back to our processing

0:41.5

week. We are processing 2025 and figuring out what we have learned, what's been great and beautiful,

0:50.3

what's been difficult and what have we learned at the end of the day. Today, so yesterday was all

0:56.4

about gratitude. I asked you to find a big highlight for the year. Today, I want to connect with

1:02.6

the thing that has been the biggest struggle for you in 2025. And it doesn't necessarily have to be this one single experience. It could have

1:13.3

been something that was an ongoing struggle for you throughout the year, a recurring thing, a pattern,

1:19.1

something you were working with, but you just couldn't figure it out, or you couldn't let it go,

1:23.5

or it just kept appearing in your life again and again, something that was really difficult for you

1:29.7

in 2025. What was it? Of course, it could be one specific thing. Perhaps you had a loss of some

1:37.8

sort. Maybe you've been going through grief this year. Perhaps you've been through depression

1:43.6

or experienced a lot of

1:45.8

frustration or hopelessness over the state of the world. Maybe you said goodbye to something

1:52.0

and that was really challenging or you said goodbye to someone and that just felt impossible.

1:57.7

Perhaps you struggled with your self-care, you struggled with feeling a sense of purpose.

2:03.2

What was most difficult for you in 2025?

2:10.6

Hey, Sainsbury's, I'm having a big party.

2:13.0

Got any finger food that won't cost an arm and a leg?

2:15.5

We do.

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