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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 Brathen
Holding Hands with Hard Emotions: How to Define, Process, and Learn from Your Discomfort
Anxiety can find us at any moment without rhyme or reason. But what should we do when it arrives? If you’ve been struggling with anxiety or any other difficult…
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If Your Inner Child Could Speak, What Would She Say?
Are we all living our lives trying to hide the fact that we have no control, nothing is permanent, and we don’t know what’s going on? If the fear of…
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Prayer, God, and Tackling the Big Questions in Life
How do you define your spirituality? What do you believe in? Are you comfortable with words like God, prayer, universe, or Mother Nature? Today’s episode of…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Parenting with Intuition: How to Do What’s Best for Your Children
As parents, we would stop at nothing to do what’s best for our children. But sometimes, what’s best isn’t black and white. If you’re navigating the difficult…
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Holding Your Inner Child: Understanding Emotion, Unpacking Trauma, and Unmasking the Reason Why
It is said that the first seven years of your life are crucial in the development of the person you will one day become. That inner child in you still lives on…
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Head vs. Heart: The Internal Struggle of Finding Purpose in Rest and Balance in Work
As multifaceted human beings, we are able to hold so much within ourselves at once. Our hearts guide us toward pleasure, joy, and rest. Our minds lead us to…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Murphy’s Law: If It Can Go Wrong, It Will Go Wrong
You know those days where nothing seems to go right? Where your life feels like a manifestation of Murphy’s Law? Rachel sits down in the midst of a two-week…
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Seasons of Sweden: Staying Rooted, Planting New Seeds, and Growing a Dream
When Rachel pictured her life in Sweden, she saw days in the forest, swimming in the lake, and getting her hands dirty in her own vegetable garden. But the…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Story Time: How Getting Arrested Changed My Life
In today’s episode, Rachel has just returned from the dealership after buying her first car in Sweden. Finally feeling like an adult in her home country, this…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
The Eye of the Storm: Preparing for Chaos, Hoping for Calm, and Staying Intensely Present
Do you want to make a change in your life, but you can’t find the energy to actually do it? Do you think you’re only worthy of rest after you work to the point…
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How to Be Human: Allowing Your Feelings, Acknowledging the Pain, and Staying Connected to Your Heart
Being human comes with many emotions and even more fragile moments. If you’re having a hard time taking it all in lately, today’s episode will remind you that…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Living a Life of Service: The Little Things Make a Difference
There is a lot going on in the world right now. If you’re feeling guilty for what you have while others are lacking, or if you’re not sure how to help, today’s…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
We Don’t Need to Carry Everything, But We Need to Carry Some
It’s a hard time to be human right now - or maybe it always is. If you find your anxiety levels rising from constantly checking the news, or if you’ve been…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
When You Don’t Know What To Do, Be of Service
Everything changed this week. With Russia waging war on Ukraine and European stability threatened, it’s no surprise that many of us are feeling shaky. If…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
The Power of Choice: Making Conscious Decisions from Your Highest Self
Do you feel powerless in your life? Are you stuck in certain situations and patterns with no end in sight? Kind of like your life is a freight train speeding…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
The Newest Swede: Dennis’ Take on Moving to Sweden, Searching for Freedom, and Building Community
Joining the Yoga Girl Podcast for the first time since the big move to Sweden: it’s Rachel’s husband, Dennis Schoneveld! A Trans-Atlantic move is no joke, but…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
A Covid Story: From Anxiety to Ease
We are two years into this pandemic, but many people are experiencing the virus for the first time. Rachel’s family included. In today’s episode, Rachel shares…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Covid Has Entered the Chat: Taking care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually
Covid has officially entered the chat. After a crazy day that involved Dennis’ covid test, an explosion of dog poop, chaos from a four-year-old, and a house…
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Family Life in Sweden: The Northern Lights, A Cozy Home, And A Happy Heart
In today’s episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast, you will get a glimpse into Rachel’s home life in Sweden. Enjoy a brief geography lesson of her home country, take…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Seasons of Change, Gardens of Growth and the Balance of Life
Whether you are an avid gardener, interested in permaculture, or just curious about nature’s order and your place on this earth, today’s episode holds an…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
It Takes a Village: Living with Nature, Building Community, and Starting from Scratch
Many of us agree that the way life is working right now isn’t actually working at all. We work long hours for little in return. Our food comes from boxes…
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The Journey Home: Moving to Sweden
It’s official: Rachel, Dennis and Lea are residents of Sweden! In today’s episode, Rachel shares the first update since leaving the Caribbean island of Aruba…
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A New Year’s Ritual: Calling In Your Intentions for 2022
It’s time for the most important - and most anticipated - Yoga Girl Podcast of the year! With 2022 approaching, call in the year meant for you in this yearly…
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Processing 2021: A Ritual to Move Forward
As we near the end of 2021, it’s time to let the past year go. Before we set our intentions for the new year, we have to let go of this one. Today’s episode is…
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Come Home: Tend to the Earth and to Your Heart
We are all just trying to find our way home. Now, the time has finally come. If you’re lost, if you’re depleted, if you’re trying to figure out who you are…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
From Surrender to Support: Letting Yourself Be Held
Are you feeling alone? A little overwhelmed? You don’t have to do everything on your own. Today’s episode will hold you through that realization. Rachel begins…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Returning to Our Roots, Caring for the Earth, and Living as Nature
If there is one truth, it is this: we are nature. Today’s episode begins with a meditation to remind you of that. You will physically connect with the ground…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
My Creative Process (Conversations From The Tea Table)
The creative process is tricky, elusive, and completely different for everyone. If you’ve been feeling uninspired lately, today’s episode will anchor you into…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Growing Together or Growing Apart? The Ups and Downs of Marriage and How To Make It Through a Hard Year
How is your heart doing right now? If you’ve been struggling in your relationship lately, this episode is for you. Today’s show begins with a check in. You…
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Why Being Close to Nature Is Being Close To Your Most Authentic Self
There are many transits moving in the sky right now. If you’ve been feeling out of touch with yourself - that could be why! But today’s episode is here to…
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Your Chosen Family: Near, Far, but Always There
Everywhere you go becomes a part of you somehow. In today’s episode, Rachel’s journey to Costa Rica is ending as she mourns the recent loss of someone very…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Sometimes You Just Have to Jump: Out of Old Patterns and Into a New Life
Are you willing to risk losing it all for the life you are meant to live? In today’s episode, Rachel is experiencing a full circle moment. She shares the story…
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Leading with Love: Releasing Mom Guilt and Choosing Yourself
As mothers, why is it so hard to put ourselves first? We know we cannot parent from an empty cup. Yet, the voice in the back of our heads is louder than ever…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Making It Through Mercury Retrograde: Choose Love Over the Need to Be Right
If you’re having an intense week, you’re not alone. With mercury retrograde, a new moon in Libra, and Mars and Chiron in the mix too, things are anything but…
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Turn Self-Sabotage Into Self-Regulation - How Getting Out of Old Trauma Responses Can Completely Transform Your Life
Are you stuck in an endless loop of self-fulfilling prophecy? Do you find the same challenging patterns repeating in your life, again and again? Do you have…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Living a Low Toxin Life: Making Decisions Today for A Better Tomorrow
True health is not merely an absence of illness. It’s an overwhelming feeling of being content in every aspect of your life. It’s thriving. It’s feeling GOOD!…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Sitting in Silence: How To Deepen Your Spiritual Practice
The world feels so isolating sometimes. We can turn on the news to see one terrible thing happening after another. We open our social media to find cruelty and…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Mothering Ourselves - A Fever, A Tea Ceremony, and God
Sometimes the biggest realizations come to us at the most challenging times. Today’s episode of the Yoga Girl Podcast is no different. Returning to life after…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Riding An Emotional Rollercoaster - The Journey Back To Aruba
Rachel has had a rollercoaster of a week! After traveling back to Aruba, leaving Ringo behind in Sweden, learning he ran away and more, she has been to the…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
How To Set and Maintain Boundaries with Nedra Glover Tawwab
Are you in a relationship that often feels frustrating but you aren’t sure how to exercise your power? Is someone you’re close with pressuring you to act in a…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Finding Home: With Every Ending Comes A New Beginning
Today’s episode begins with some grounding breaths to arrive fully into this moment. When life throws something our way, no matter if it’s exciting or heart…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Everybody Poops. Let’s Talk About It!
We all poop! Why don’t we ever talk about it? Trigger warning: this episode gets really up close and personal on all things number two! After having her first…
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How To Deal With Toxic Mold: Environmental Toxins, Detox Protocols and Tips for Keeping Your Home Healthy
Today’s episode shares the objective story on how Rachel and her family dealt with finding toxic mold in their house, from A to Z. Environmental health is…
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How To Love Yourself (hint: you already do)
There is a place life takes us sometimes. It’s dark, it’s lonely and it feels like we’re trapped at the bottom of a hole. It can be hard to get out, unless we…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
A Sharing From The Heart: Anxiety, Spiraling, and What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do
Today’s episode comes with no epiphanies. It’s just an honest, open sharing on anxiety when there is nothing else you can do. If you’ve ever had a tiny moment…
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You Are Inherently Good - How To Manage Anxiety by Taking Care of Your Inner Child
When you look back on your life, make sure you can say that you were there for it. You were present. You didn’t just move through the motions of life, doing…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
You Are Nature: How Tending to the Land is Tending to Your Heart
We come from the earth, we’ll return to the earth. In between, we garden. We nourish our bodies, we feed our minds. We tend to our hearts as though they are…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
You’ve Got The Power! How To Actively Participate in the Creation of Your Life
Are you actively participating in the creation of your life, or are you a bystander, feeling out of control and like you have no say in what life brings your…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Does Life Always Bring You Where You’re Meant to Be?
Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way we expect. We can sit in nature, ask for guidance, notice the signs and follow our intuition, but it still doesn’t lead…
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Making Life Decisions with Dennis Schoneveld
On this week’s episode, Rachel has everyone’s favorite guest on the show, Dennis Schoneveld! After being separated for almost 2 months, the little family is…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Don’t Rush: Everything Works Out the Way It’s Supposed To
Some things just feel like home; a small cabin in the woods, jumping into a cold Swedish lake, or a long hug from your person after being apart for months…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
There is No Such Thing as a Dream Too Big
Have you ever downplayed a dream? Did you tell your friends, your family - and even yourself - that that thing you long for really doesn’t matter all that…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
A Radical Act Of Self-Love: Setting Boundaries with our Loved Ones
Our identities are complex. We are made up of dreams, beliefs, likes, dislikes and unique personalities - but everything about us is interwoven with the…
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In Tune With Your Intuition - How to Trust What Your Body Is Telling You
What’s standing in the way between you being 100% in tune with your body? A strong intuition is found within each and every one of us. We know ourselves on a…
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What If It's Not Just You? Ancestral Trauma and Honoring Where You Came From
Where you come from is rooted deep within you, for better or for worse. No matter where you go or how far you run, home will always call you back. For those of…
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Finding Your Way Home - A Sharing From The Forest
All of us at our core are longing for home. We long for that place where we can let go, be ourselves, and find peace. But, how many of us truly find home, and…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
A Story About a Bear
How do you say goodbye to the most important thing in your life? In today’s episode, we take notes and learn from Lea Luna, Rachel’s 4-year old daughter, and…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
You Can’t Heal In a Toxic Environment - What Mold and Environmental Toxins Did To Our Bodies
The environment we live in, the water we drink, the food we eat and the air we breathe play a massive role in our overall health and wellbeing. The good news?…
- From the Heart with Rachel Brathen
Let It Go - How Losing My Belongings Made Me Remember I Belong
As Rachel purges all of the items in her house, she reflects on the process of letting go and the human experience of it. Knowing that our life isn’t in our…
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Tiny Miracles, Everywhere
The mold saga at Rachel’s house continues this week, but with some major lessons, miracles, blessings and resiliency sprinkled in. Now with somewhat of a…