Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

It can be hard to understand that you are perfect exactly the way you are. We feel like that when we look at children - they have light, beauty and innocence. But why don’t we feel like that with ourselves? In today’s episode, Rachel will guide you through a practice to reconnect with your inner child. That light is still inside you. Let’s get everything out of the way. 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

The world may be trying to make us feel like we’re not enough right now. But today on Self-Care Daily, we are going to open our journals and reflect on the traits we have that say otherwise. You probably have goals you want to reach for in 2026. What qualities do you have that will make those goals possible? What strengths will help you make your dreams come true? Tune in to reflect on it and you will feel so inspired 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

It can feel so weird to jump back into normal life after the holidays. Especially if you’ve been working with us on Self-Care Daily and From the Heart podcast over these past couple of weeks, you have done a lot of work figuring out who you are at your core and what you genuinely want from life. And now you are getting bombarded with messages that are telling you to improve. This week on the show, we are going to counter all those messages telling us we aren’t good enough. Instead we are going to focus on our essence and why we are so beautiful already. 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

We are still in the early days of 2026. We might still be moving slow after the holidays, but today’s practice will offer you a small step you can take toward one of your goals. Is there something you can brainstorm? Is there a first step you can take? Closing the day a tiny bit closer to your intention is a wonderful feeling. 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

Happy New Year! As we celebrate the beginning of 2026, today’s episode offers a simple practice that will bring your word of the year to life. All you have to do is gift yourself something that will turn that word into a feeling in your body. Rachel will share 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

Happy New Year’s Eve and welcome to the final practice of our 8 Days of Intention Setting. Yesterday we set a clear intention for 2026, and today we will find our word of the year. Your word of the year is the perfect alignment between what your intention represents and how you want to feel within. Once you find it, Rachel shares a beautiful practice to do so that your word really comes to life. Then, she shares the ritual she does every year at midnight as the year turns. 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

We have made it to our second last practice of our 8 Days of Intention Setting. In today’s episode, you are going to clearly identify your main, overarching intention for 2026. What do you want out of life this year? This seems like a big question, but remember, the simpler you make it, the easier it will be for the universe to respond. You just need one single sentence to carry all your hopes and dreams. 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

Who you are at your core doesn’t change. But sometimes, there are obstacles or barriers that stop us from being our true self. In today’s practice of our 8 Days of Intention Setting, you are going to visualize yourself as the most embodied, authentic version of you. If you lived in alignment with that vision, who would you be? How would you act? What thoughts would you think about yourself? What would you do in a day? The more you feel the energy of that version of you, the closer you will become to being them. That part of you is here. 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

Today’s practice for our 8 Days of Intention Setting is a continuation of our goal setting from yesterday. Today we will set a goal in different areas of our lives that are related to our home and our soul. Your home includes where you live and the people or animals that you love within it. Your soul is everything related to your spiritual practices, your self-development journey, your relationship with your community, or your connection to something bigger than you. When you think of these areas of your life, what goals do you have? If you want to dive into the big 2026 Intention Setting Practice on From the Heart with Rachel Brathen, that episode is available now anywhere you listen to podcasts. 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

Merry Christmas and welcome back to our 8 Days of Intention Setting! When setting intentions, it can be helpful to divide our goals into different areas of life. For this practice, you will be focusing on a goal for your mind, and a goal for your body. Your mind is everything that has to do with your work, your money, or your studying. Your body includes your health, your wellbeing, and your self-care. If you had to set one goal for each of these areas, what would you come to? 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

You might have a list of goals or milestones or accomplishments you expect to hit in 2026. But beneath all of that logical thinking, there is a feeling lingering. And beneath that feeling, there is a longing. In today’s episode of our 8 Days of Intention Setting, Rachel will guide you through a meditation to settle into the body and discover your heart’s longing. Notice what is stirring inside of you. It’s calling. 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

Sometimes the best way to figure out what you want is through knowing what you don’t want. In today’s practice of our 8 Days of Intention Setting, you are going to journal until the answer becomes clear: what do you not want to bring with you into 2026? What are you done with? What is staying in 2025? Grab your journal and 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

Welcome to our 8 Days of Intention Setting here on Self-Care Daily! As we prepare for 2026, Rachel will offer you bite-sized practices for the next eight days that will help you really connect with what you want out of life for the coming chapter. For today’s task, your goal is to just assess. How is your heart? Do you feel motivated to dive into intention setting? Or are you a little apprehensive about focusing on the future? Feel the answer in your heart and 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

Remember when everyone used to write thank you notes to each other? In today’s episode, we are going to take that practice and write a thank you note to 2025. You will thank this year for everything it brought you - the things you were blessed with, the people you spent time with, the little moments that mattered the most. It’s a beautiful way to end the year. Then, if you want to Process 2025 even deeper, the Processing 2025 episode is now available on From the Heart everywhere you listen to podcasts. Next week we will dive into our intention setting practices! 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

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

In your mind’s eye and in your heart, today’s episode will bring you on a trip down memory lane. You will look at 2025 as a whole and ask yourself - what are you most grateful for this year? Maybe it’s one person, maybe it was a specific experience, or maybe it was a lesson you learned. Whatever it was, sit with it and give thanks. It brought you so much. 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

For today’s episode, you are going to go back in time to the intention you set for yourself in 2025. What was it? Did you have a word of the year? Sometimes the year turns out exactly as planned, but other times the universe decides to teach us a lesson instead. You will spend some time journaling today to figure out what actually happened this year - and can you summarize it into one word? 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

We are almost at the end of the year! Today marks the beginning of the end, and on Self-Care Daily we are going to start figuring out what 2025 brought us. Every day this week, Rachel will give you a practice that will help you process 2025. What did you learn? What was magical? What curveballs came your way? For today’s episode, if you could put 2025 into a feeling, what would that feeling be? Tune in to figure it out. 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

Today’s self-care practice is a fire-gazing, or a candle-gazing, meditation. All you need is a dark room and a lit candle! Rachel will guide you through the practice, from set up to completion, and all you have to do is take in the light. How does it feel? How does your breath respond? Tune in to see. 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

Just like we love to light candles in our home during the winter, we need little things we can turn toward to bring light into dark situations in our lives. What helps you through difficult times? In today’s episode, Rachel will share examples from her own life, and then it’s your turn to reflect on the resources that support you when everything feels dark and heavy. 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