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From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Rachel Brathen is a bestselling author, podcast host, and serial entrepreneur who inspires millions every day. Now – Rachel offers an even more intimate look into her life and the inspiring journey. Weekly episodes of storytelling and talks from Rachel (sometimes alongside special guests!) dive into topics such as love, trust, finding balance, overcoming adversity and well-being. The light you are seeking is within your own heart. Join Rachel as she helps you uncover it, from her heart to yours.
Episodes
From the Heart with Rachel BrathenIntroducing What We Spend
What We Spend is back for another season of diving into the financial questions you never get to ask. In Season 2 we’ll ask a brand new set of people from…
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The Veil is Thin, The Ones You Lost Are Near
We are so close to Halloween now, and in today’s episode, Rachel talks about how she can actually feel the thin veil between the realms of the living and the…
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The Path Back Home to Yourself
In today’s episode, Rachel has just returned back from Path of Love, and she is still in the process of integrating back into everyday life. She shares a…
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Who Is Rachel Brathen, Really?
Is Rachel secretly a right-wing tradwife? A raging, anti-vaxxing liberal? Both? Does she get handouts from her family? Is she controlling in her marriage? Does…
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Ask Rachel: The Men Are Not Okay
It’s time for an Ask Rachel on this week’s episode of the podcast. While the episode started off on a high note talking about pottery and balance, it descended…
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What Is Your Inner Voice Telling You?
Listening to your inner voice takes work - especially if you are a female living in this world. We have been raised in a society that expects us to mold…
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No Sleep: A Camping Trip with Kids
In today’s episode, Rachel has just gotten back from a night of camping in the forest with her kids. Was it a successful camping trip? Yes and no! Rachel had a…
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If I’m Sitting, I’m Knitting
When you really think about it, there are so many parallels between healing trauma and knitting. If you find a hole or a knot in your project, you have to work…
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Ask Rachel: How to Be Kind To Your Body
It’s time for another episode of Ask Rachel! Today Rachel takes a beautiful and very relatable question from a listener on how to speak more kindly to your…
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Play Is A Basic Human Need
Happy September! Fall has officially arrived in the north of Sweden where Rachel lives. The seasons change quickly here, and Rachel is already finding herself…
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May You Heal So Hard You Do Arts and Crafts Again
So many of us want to live a slower and more deliberate life. But how do we get there? In today’s episode, Rachel shares her path - it’s to practice it! The…
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Is It Possible To Keep An Entire Family Organized?
After a long summer, it is finally time to get back to school, back to basics, and back to routine. Rachel has some time now to tackle the chaos and mess that…
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We Were Never Meant To Do This Alone
In today’s episode, Rachel is fresh off hosting her first-ever retreat in her hometown in Sweden — 58 people from all over the world who came together for a…
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Everything Happening In My Kitchen Right Now (and some recipes!)
It’s peak harvest season over in Rachel’s life at the moment. In today’s episode, she discusses everything happening in her kitchen thanks to all the…
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What If Pleasure Is Your Birthright?
In today’s episode, Rachel is just coming out of two days of indulgent alone time. Her husband took both the kids to Stockholm, and Rachel got to bask in a…
From the Heart with Rachel BrathenWelcome to For the Love with Jen Hatmaker
Joy isn't the reward you earn after all the work is done. Joy is the work. That's what a new series on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker is all about, the Sacred…
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Ask Rachel: Meet Yourself Where You Are
This episode brings us another segment of Ask Rachel, where Rachel takes calls from listeners and answers any questions they have. The inquiries today were so…
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How to Exist in the Good Enough
For the past few weeks, Rachel has found herself in a depleted slump. But now, she has slowly crawled out to see the light again. Feeling more rested and…
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Are Moms and Dads Just Built Differently?
Do mom brains just work differently than dad brains? This is obviously not the case in every family, but in a lot of families - the mother bears the brunt of…
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The Ancestral, Collective Tiredness of Women
In today’s episode, Rachel is the type of tired that you feel in your soul, in your bones, and in your identity itself. It’s a feeling that stems from the…
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Trauma and Codependency: What Shapes Our Personalities?
When you reflect on your personality, why do you think you are the way you are? Is it due to your nature or your experiences? In today’s episode, Rachel…
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Getting Older, Celebrating Midsummer, and Harnessing the Energy of The Summer
There’s a lot happening in Rachel’s life at the moment! You probably feel it too. This weekend has so much momentum and high energy. It’s the peak of the…
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Creating Community, Honoring the Land, and Full Circle Moments
Today’s episode is about going back to basics, full circle moments, and a new chapter intertwining with the old. Rachel has just launched a summer retreat…
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Artificial Intelligence and How to Live in the Real World
This episode of From the Heart is all about AI and how it is infiltrating every corner of our lives. After a few upsetting encounters with AI, Rachel was left…
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Human Design and Nature: How to Harness Your Energy and Do What You Love
In today’s episode, it’s the end of May, Rachel’s energy is buzzing, and things are happening all around! Rachel talks about the momentum that this month…
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Story Time: Surgery, Fear of Death, and a Dysregulated Nervous System
If you are a mother, you probably know the feeling of fear well. In today’s episode, Rachel talks about the biggest trauma her nervous system is still…
From the Heart with Rachel BrathenIntroducing Family Lore
Family Lore is a weekly narrative podcast that celebrates and investigates ancestral mystique. Each episode begins with a guest sharing a fascinating family…
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Ask Rachel: How to (really) Build Confidence in Your Kids
Can we build confidence in our children? Or is confidence something they have to figure out for themselves? This episode brings us another segment of Ask…
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Initiating, Resting and Life as a Side Quest
In today’s episode of From the Heart, Rachel shares her process of getting things done and how she stays productive in her daily life. It looks a lot like…
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The Absurdity of the World, Prepping, and Why You Need To Rely On Yourself
In today’s episode, Rachel shares many opposing thoughts that we are all thinking right now: the world is absurd, crazy and scary - but the world is also full…
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Would You Choose The Man, The Bear… Or a Woman?
In today’s episode, Rachel answers a very specific question: does she hate men? The answer to this is… no, not all men. But the truth is, the male population…
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BONUS: Improve Your Mindset, Feel Magnetic, and Create Your Dream Life
If you want to try Activations, now is the perfect time. Visit activations.com/rachel for more. When you envision your most authentic self, who do you see?…
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The Decades of Life and How to Appreciate Each One
Does it feel like time is just moving quicker and quicker? Are you yearning to slow down the clock and enjoy each moment as it comes your way? In today’s…
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Prepping For The End of The World (And For Everyday Life)
What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and had no power? Or the grocery stores had no food? Or there wasn’t any clean water anymore? What would you do if…
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How Gardening Changed My Life (and why you should grow your own food, too!)
Today’s episode will inspire you to put your hands in the soil and grow something. Rachel shares her entire history with gardening, from how she got started to…
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Ask Rachel: Behind Everything, There’s a Mother
It’s time for another Ask Rachel episode of the podcast - and the questions that came today were really incredible. It was a very mother-centered episode, with…
From the Heart with Rachel BrathenWelcome to Becoming You with Suzy Welch
Are you standing at a crossroads? Today, we’re sharing Becoming You, hosted by the brilliant Suzy Welch. Known for her wildly popular self-discovery class at…
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Spring Equinox: A Ritual to Find Balance, Air Things Out, and Set Your Intention
Happy Spring Equinox! Today marks the balancing of night and day, the halfway point between winter and summer solstice, a new astrological year, and of course…
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The Arrival of Spring: What Unfinished Business Do You Have?
As spring inches closer, Rachel has a personal realization about this time of year: it is always filled with a mixture of grief and celebration. With her…
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Making Joy a Priority: The Farm Store, Garden Updates, and Working Towards A Dream
Welcome to another episode of From the Heart. Today Rachel begins with a meditation - something all our hearts need - to settle into the moment and open…
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Are We Living The Apocalypse? And How to Survive the Patriarchy
Maybe the apocalypse isn’t what you see in the movies. It’s not power grids collapsing, fires burning everywhere, and zombies coming for us all. Instead, it…
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The Epstein Files, Feminine Rage, and Toppling the Patriarchy
With the Epstein files and all the atrocities that they hold coming to light, we can no longer be silent and complacent in a world built on patriarchy…
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Intuitive Parenting: When to Set Boundaries, Ask for Advice, and Lead with Love
If you’re a parent, you may have heard a million different theories on how to best raise children. But here’s the thing: none of those people have ever been in…
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Ask Rachel: The Biggest Love That Could Ever Exist
It’s time for another episode of Ask Rachel. Today’s show brings with it a beautiful mix of deep questions from listeners. How can we handle the intense…
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Healthy Anger, Ugly Dances, and Embodying Feminine Energy
In today’s episode, Rachel is talking to you from the first day of her moon, feeling very vulnerable and sad. She begins by sharing her views on the injustices…
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Separation Anxiety, The Energetic Body, and Closing This Chapter Of Aruba
Rachel’s stay in Aruba has come to a close. With her husband and son spending an extra week, she discusses the impending sense of separation anxiety she feels…
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Life in Aruba Versus Sweden with Dennis Schoneveld
For the first time since 2023, Rachel’s husband Dennis joins the show for a fun and awkward conversation. How has life been treating Dennis in Sweden since we…
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Preparing For The Ritual Is The Ritual
In today’s episode, Rachel talks about the rituals that she anchors into everyday in different shapes and forms - and how they serve as an important reminder…
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Returning to Aruba: We’re On The Same Team
Welcome to the first episode of 2026 where Rachel is talking to you from Aruba. This is her first time here since 2022 - which was a very complicated trip. She…
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2026 Intention Setting Practice: Let Your Heart Guide The Way
Welcome to our last podcast of 2025, where, as usual, it’s time for our big Intention Setting Practice. This is our biggest and most sacred practice of the…
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Processing 2025: A Ritual to Move On
Somehow we have arrived at the end of another year - and with that, it’s time to say goodbye to 2025. Today’s episode is one of our most popular of the entire…
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Where Are We Headed If We Can’t Think For Ourselves?
With the internet at our fingertips, are we losing our critical thinking and problem solving skills? And if so, where are we headed as a society if we can’t…
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It’s Not The Destination, It’s The Journey
How many epiphanies will we come to in our lives? How many cycles of the spiritual journey will we go on? Well, maybe that’s the point. In today’s episode…
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The Inner Critic, Artificial Intelligence, and Online Bullying
Your inner critic tells you a lot of things. Usually it’s just trying to keep you safe, but sometimes it’s completely untrue and harmful. In today’s episode…
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Ask Rachel: Your Hardships Are Leading You Somewhere
Today we have an episode of Ask Rachel on the show - and somehow, all the questions beautifully relate and come full circle. In the first question, Rachel…
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The Journey Toward Balance: How to Keep the Magic in Everyday Life
No matter how much we wish it to be so, balance is not something we arrive at one day and remain there forever. Finding balance is a daily practice. In today’s…
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If This Is Not Meant to Be, Give Me a Sign
Today’s episode begins with Rachel talking a little bit about their family vacation to Tenerife. It was a nourishing time spent doing nothing but reading and…
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Let Go and Let God - Navigating Fear, Death, and the Uncertainty of Parenthood
Today’s episode is a tender one that was difficult to record. Rachel opens up about her fear of death. She discusses how this fear has shaped her throughout…
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Marriage, Barriers, and Dismantling The Wall Around Your Heart
In today’s episode, Rachel opens up about a big, beautiful expansion happening in her marriage right now. For the first time in a long time, Rachel is able to…
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Path of Love: A Journey to Who You Really Are
In today’s episode, Rachel has just returned from a Path of Love Retreat, although retreat isn’t quite the right word for it. This is Rachel’s third Path of…