Imperfectly Human™ | Athlete Identity & Life After Sport

In this episode Rachel talks about how difficult it is to be a woman in todays society and gets personal about how Barbie impacted her as a child and as an adult!

In this episode Rachel gets real about being an empty nester and talks about her experience with being overwhelmed the past few weeks. As always, the episode is raw, unedited and perfectly imperfect.

In Episode 13, Rachel talks about a decision she made after reflecting inwards and observing how she was living by other people’s morals and values and found peace within by choosing to live by her own….and ultimately made a decision many might be shocked by and that’s perfectly ok!

In Episode 12, Rachel talks about what self compassion looks like and how it leads to a happier and safe place even when we don’t like something we’ve done or something about our own self!

In this episode Rachel gets vulnerable and talks about her struggles with body image and the darkness she observed and how she didn’t get stuck there. Warning: this episode can be triggering if you struggle with any type of disordered eating or body dysmorphia and is not to be used in lieu of getting help or treatment.

In this episode you’ll hear Rachel share how she was willful to feeling and accepting an emotion and ultimately how she chose ride the wave with an emotion of sadness that overcame her!

I’m todays episode, Rachel shares how changing your interpretation of a situation can change your emotions and reactions and in her case, not get a speeding ticket!

In this episode, Rachel talks about her first experience seeking out therapy for herself and all the thoughts she observed leading up to the appointment. Rachel is real, raw, unedited and perfectly imperfect all year long!

In this episode Rachel talks about how thoughts can nourish our souls or hinder our souls! Once again it’s perfectly imperfectly and offers some insight. You can take something from it or not.

In this episode, Rachel shares which word resonates with her as she enters 2023 all the while not making resolutions! This episode has some bad language🤷🏻‍♀️

In this episode of Perfectly Imperfect Me365, Rachel talks about death by suicide and how things might not be as they appear when looking at other people's lives, especially through social media. Rachel shares her experience with pain and not wanting to be alive during the darkest and most painful time in her life and appeared put together to the outside world. This episode is a difficult topic for many and might be triggering for some so please be mindful of your limits and space that you are currently in.  

In Episode 4 of Perfectly Imperfect Me365, Rachel discusses why hurt people, hurt people at times and ways to deal with this from both sides. Whether you’re the one who’s hurt and hurts others or someone else gets hurt and reacts by hurting others, you can learn how to deal with it. In this episode you’ll also get to hear ways Rachel built mastery while speaking to her listeners.

Happy Thanksgiving! Today's brief episode is all about gratitude. Rachel discusses how finding gratitude when your life isn't exactly where you want it to be or how you imagined it would be is possible and difficult at the same time. Gratitude can help you focus on what is there rather than what isn't. Rachel shares how using the DBT skill of "radical acceptance" helps with accepting reality as it is and can make finding gratitude a little bit easier. She's real, raw and is grateful for her listeners.

In Episode 2 of Perfectly Imperfect Me365, Rachel discusses how she was not so bad at instilling values in her children inadvertently by modeling.  She also discusses how it's ok to do something and the outcome is not so bad even with self doubt over time.  Again, you'll get to hear how she's building mastery by doing this podcast with all the perfectly imperfect things that happened while recording (alarm went off and recording on Safari stopped and even the volume changes in the second half of the recording). Hey, this too was not so bad!

Episode 1 of Perfectly Imperfect Me 365 finds Rachel describing ways she is perfectly imperfect year round and how she's ok with that. She shares how her desire to have a perfect podcast and be perfect in what she presented prevented her from starting it 5 years ago. You will get to experience Rachel stepping outside her comfort zone into being a courageous woman as she takes The Step in creating her podcast.