Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Latest Episodes:

A Meditation to Feel Rested in Your Body Nov 04, 2026

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What does a mental break actually feel like? When your body experiences real, nourishing rest, what differences can you sense within? Today’s episode offers a short practice and meditation for anytime you need a little space for yourself. You will scan your body, searching for areas where you feel depleted and stressed - and areas where you feel calm and rested. What is the difference? Tune in to begin.

What Would You Stop Doing If The World Wasn’t Watching? Nov 03, 2026

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Nature is beginning to settle in for a deep and long rest. And with that, today’s episode offers you a very important question that may shed light on precious time you could spend resting. What would you stop doing if the world wasn’t watching? Where is some of your energy going that is only for the purpose of performance and pressure? What do you do not for joy - but simply because there is an expectation on you? The answer could change your life. Tune in to begin.

A Week of Rest and Replenishment Nov 02, 2026

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This week on Self-Care Daily, we are going to take our cues from nature. Nature does not work endlessly. If you look outside right now, the fields are empty and the trees are bare. Nature is resting, and more importantly, it’s not apologizing for it. It’s time for us to rest, too! Let’s put the mental load way, challenge our limiting belief that rest must be earned, and slow down in a way that actually replenishes us. Let’s rest well! Tune in to begin.

An Altar to Remember Your Loved Ones Oct 30, 2026

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For today’s self-care practice, we are going to build an altar for this season of the year, and this season of your life. It is an altar to help you remember those who have passed on. Rachel will share tips on where to build it, how to built it, and what to put on it. It can include everything from candles, to images of your loved ones, items of remembrance, connections to nature, and traditions of this season. This will be a place you can arrive to be present with those you have lost - a place infused with their spirit and your own intention of reverence. Tune in to begin.

Writing a Letter Across the Veil Oct 29, 2026

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Today’s practice is very vulnerable, and it has the potential to bring you deep into yourself and the connection you have with those who have passed on. You will be writing a letter across the veil. Was anything left unsaid to a loved one? Do you need to say thank you? I love you? Do you need to tell them what has happened since they have left? Rachel will walk you through the practice. You will sit quietly in that place where you feel them and write from a place of love and remembrance. Then you can do something special with the letter once you are done. Tune in to begin.

A Mediation to Connect With Your Ancestors Oct 28, 2026

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Today’s practice offers you a meditation that will help you connect with your ancestors. You will visualize each generation standing behind you forming a large triangle, from your parents to your grandparents and beyond. Hold in your heart what it took for you to be here now. Let go of old stories and sense the primal gratitude just for being alive. You have so many people behind you. Tune in to begin.

Who Do You Carry With You? Oct 27, 2026

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We have all experienced loss in some way, shape or form. But those that have passed on that really meant something to us - they remain. In today’s episode, you are going to step into a place of feeling instead of thinking. Who do you carry with you? Whose presence do you still feel? In what ways do they live on? Rachel will share some beautiful examples. Tune in to begin.

A Week of Remembering The Ones We Have Lost Oct 26, 2026

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For many parts of the world, this time of year is known for the thin veil between the realms of the living and dead. This is a time of honoring your ancestors, remembering the ones you have lost, and walking in gratitude for what they brought to your life. Wherever you may be in a grief process, this week will be a way to bask in the love for those lost - and the quiet knowing that that love never truly leaves. Tune in to begin.

Walking with the Darkness for Self-Care Oct 23, 2026

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It can be such a relief to stand with your shadow and look at all the things you’ve been avoiding. For today’s self-care practice, Rachel is going to guide you through a darkness walk. Right at dusk, you will catch that special transitional time between night and day and notice how your body naturally adjusts to the dark. Rachel will share some tips, and you can bask in what you feel inside. Is it scary? Is it peaceful? What does the dark actually hold? Tune in to begin.

What Feeling Are You Running From? Oct 22, 2026

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Some feelings are really difficult to sit with. Instead, we try to shut them down, or run from them, or we turn to an unhealthy coping mechanism. In today’s episode, you are going to take the first step to acknowledging - what is that feeling for you? What feeling are you avoiding right now? What are you resisting? Give yourself a grounded place of support, then let yourself feel a tiny drop of what is present. You can do hard things. Tune in to begin.