From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

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

Preparing For The Ritual Is The Ritual

January 9, 2026 • 52 mins
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 for the goodness that exists in the world right now. She shares more about her past week in Aruba, what her and Dennis’ schedules look like, and how they are working together to make everything flow and everyone feel good. We need our self-care practices more than ever righ...
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Returning to Aruba: We’re On The Same Team

January 2, 2026 • 59 mins
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 talks about her feelings from the last trip, the difficulties her and Dennis faced, and the feeling of rejection she had. This time around, things are different - but not uncomplicated. Rachel has realized there are still emotions that need feeling, chapters that need clo...
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2026 Intention Setting Practice: Let Your Heart Guide The Way

December 26, 2025 • 93 mins
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 year. We will dance, move, feel into our hearts, and spill it all out on paper. Who do you want to become in 2026? This practice will guide your way there. You will set goals in four different areas of your life (home, mind, body, and soul) and you will also set a clear inten...
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Processing 2025: A Ritual to Move On

December 19, 2025 • 76 mins
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 year. We are going to process the year that has now passed. Before you can sit down and set your intentions for the new year, you need to ask yourself: what did 2025 bring you? What was beautiful? What was difficult? What lessons do you want to bring with you into 2026? And w...
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Where Are We Headed If We Can’t Think For Ourselves?

December 12, 2025 • 43 mins
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 think for ourselves anymore? In today’s episode, Rachel talks about how to tell the difference between deep integrated knowing versus information we just copied and gathered online. It is imperative that we feel rooted in knowing who we are and where we come from. This episode ...
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It’s Not The Destination, It’s The Journey

December 5, 2025 • 42 mins
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, Rachel talks about feeling lost again and again. With her husband away, her to-do list is overflowing, she has lost her voice, her daughter has gotten sick, and her son has the chicken pox. But maybe it’s not about having a perfectly peaceful life all the time. It’s about the mo...
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The Inner Critic, Artificial Intelligence, and Online Bullying

November 28, 2025 • 61 mins
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, Rachel talks about her inner critical voice and how that is amplified in the online space. Sometimes the voice inside your head can sound a lot like the voices of the trolls online. After considering this, the conversation shifts toward our children. Do we really want to su...
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Ask Rachel: Your Hardships Are Leading You Somewhere

November 21, 2025 • 73 mins
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 openly discusses her relationship with her husband and how they were able to fall deeper in love and grow into a new dynamic in their marriage. She shares an actionable practice that all couples should do every week. Then, she talks about healing from burnout and the single most ...
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The Journey Toward Balance: How to Keep the Magic in Everyday Life

November 14, 2025 • 45 mins
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 episode, Rachel shares her eternal struggle for balance when it comes to sleep, her diet, and taking care of herself in general. How can we choose the most grounding, loving thing for ourselves? And on the other side of the spectrum, how can we not indulge so much that we ta...
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If This Is Not Meant to Be, Give Me a Sign

November 7, 2025 • 58 mins
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 lounging on the beach. And sometimes that is exactly what you need in a vacation. As Rachel goes down memory lane, she starts telling the story of how she fell in love with her husband 15 years ago in Aruba. Their origin story is one for the books! It has it all, from chanc...
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Let Go and Let God - Navigating Fear, Death, and the Uncertainty of Parenthood

October 31, 2025 • 60 mins
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 her life, from her childhood when it was formed, through motherhood, up until this very moment. And after a traumatic experience in her home and losing her entire flock of chickens - it seems death has been surrounding her a lot lately.  But there is a truth that exists: the...
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Marriage, Barriers, and Dismantling The Wall Around Your Heart

October 24, 2025 • 52 mins
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 lean more into her feminine side. Her husband has been taking the lead, and she has actually been able to accept letting go of control. How did these changes come about? It wasn’t from nagging or expecting someone else to become a new person - it was from recognizing barriers...
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Path of Love: A Journey to Who You Really Are

October 17, 2025 • 63 mins
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 Love experience, and they have all been the most transformational and healing journeys of her life. She comes home with a newly found understanding of herself and the world. Rachel talks a little bit about Path of Love (but not much because the experience is secret!),...
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Ask Rachel: You Are Already on Your Way

October 10, 2025 • 71 mins
This week on the show Rachel is away at a Path of Love Retreat, so she took some questions from listeners. It’s time for another segment of Ask Rachel! The questions today revolved around finding your place in the world, finding what truly makes you happy, and finding your purpose. So, it’s a pretty big episode! Is it romantic to live on a farm by the lake or is that just the filter of social media? How can you find your purpose i...
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Birthdays, Body Image, and Tough Conversations

October 3, 2025 • 48 mins
On today’s episode of From the Heart, it’s almost Rachel’s birthday! She shares her plans for the weekend and something big happening next week. Birthdays are usually a time to contemplate where you’ve been, where you’re going, and where you are right now.  But this birthday, Rachel feels like she is wearing her heart on her sleeve. A lot is moving around her and inside her - and it’s a beautiful and difficult time to be alive! ...
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Where Does Your Anger Go?

September 26, 2025 • 47 mins
In today’s episode of the podcast, Rachel talks all about toddler tantrums. Her two-year-old son is in a phase right now where he doesn’t like to wear pants, or sit in his car seat, or brush his teeth, and this often leads to some big emotional releases. But what if we shifted our views around? What if we could see a tantrum for what it really is - an intelligent little body learning how to hold and release anger? We all need big ...
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Are You Connected to Humanity or Separated From It?

September 19, 2025 • 57 mins
We are all connected to this earth, and we are all connected to each other. But whether we feel that connection or not depends on us. There are ways to strengthen this bond and bring it to life - and there are ways to dull it and cut ourselves off. So much of the suffering we see began with a sense of separation. In today’s episode, Rachel shares actionable ways you can deepen your connection to the world around you. It will hel...
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How to Hear Your Inner Voice Loud and Clear

September 12, 2025 • 49 mins
Can you hear your inner voice when it speaks? Do you know what feels like a yes to you, and what feels like a no? In today’s episode, Rachel is transitioning into the fall season. She opens up with a discussion on the chickens, her coming plans for her farm and garden, and her family life. This is a time of year where many of us feel the need to get more organized and structured. And to do that - we need to set boundaries. What ...
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If You Think You’re Enlightened, Spend a Week with Your Family

September 5, 2025 • 49 mins
What if the difficult thing you are going through is bringing you to an important learning? What if the pain you are feeling is there because it needs to be felt? Today’s episode is an emotional one, with Rachel opening up about difficult family dynamics, old wounds, and things that just aren’t working for her anymore. With the past weeks feeling really heavy and dark, Rachel has decided to see a coach with her husband, and she has...
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Ask Rachel: Reframing Your Intentions, Embodied Presence, and Why Yoga Is Always Political

August 29, 2025 • 70 mins
Today’s episode brings us another segment of Ask Rachel! Rachel answers four questions from listeners and they were all very deep and thoughtful. First she takes a question on how to slow down time as parents. Is that possible? And if so, what does it look like? Next, Rachel answers a question on the intention setting ceremony we do every year. How can we make our intentions stick throughout the year - or how can we give ourselves ...
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