When Do You Feel Like You’re Pretending?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

It can be really hard to recognize or define who your most authentic self is. Sometimes, it’s easier to notice the scenarios in your life that pull you away from your true self. In today’s episode, you will take a look at one of those scenarios - something that makes you feel like you need to wear a mask, or change in some way, or fake your way through. Give yourself grace and find awareness. It will only help you move forward. 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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0:32.6	Hi friends. Welcome back to Self Care Daily. I hope you're having a really good week so far.
0:42.0	If you've already tuned in with us this week, you know, we are talking about authenticity,
0:47.9	about arriving to a place inside where we feel like ourselves. And what I want to do today is figure that out or get a little bit
0:57.3	closer to that by noticing the thing that pulls us away from ourselves. And sometimes this can be a
1:05.3	really good practice to find more of that essence, more of that authenticity that pulls us into who we really are,
1:13.3	is noticing the moments and the places and the experiences and the things and the people
1:19.5	that make us feel like we have to pretend, that make us feel like we have to put on a mask
1:25.8	or like we have to soldier through or like we have to put on a mask or like we have to soldier through or like we have
1:28.9	to shrink and play small or like we have to make ourselves really, really big to just be heard.
1:34.4	Anything in our daily life that we come across and it might be a bunch of stuff because unfortunately
1:39.5	the world is made up like this. It might be tons of things that you encounter in your daily life.
1:45.9	The things that pull away from our essence.
1:49.9	The things and the moments and the people that make it feel maybe just a little bit unsafe
1:54.4	to really be who we are.
1:56.7	Those reasons we come across in our day to put up that wall,
2:02.9	to pretend just a little bit,
2:09.3	or to bend over backwards, trying to change something about ourselves, just in hopes of us being more accepted or more embraced. So starting this practice by giving you tons of grace
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