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The Daring Well Podcast - Holistic Health & Wellness, Mindset, and Personal Growth
Are you ready to feel empowered and motivated to crush your wellness goals?
Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here. Your one stop for mindfulness, meditations, holistic wellness, mental health, evidence based strategies, healthy habits, and deep and meaningful conversations to help you transform your mind and relationships.
Well, I’m your host, Rita Mercer. I’m a holistic wellness and mindset coach, licensed counselor, and your new virtual friend on this wild and crazy journey called life.
On the Daring Well podcast, we will explore holistic wellness practices to strengthen your mind, body, and spirit. Each episode we will learn new coping skills and explore holistic wellness tools and tips to shift your mindset and discover your true self.
With nearly a decade of experience as a licensed mental health counselor, specializing in trauma, grief, loss, and integrative mental health, I’m excited to share some nuggets of wisdom, clinical experience and research that I’ve learned along the way.
I invite you to lean in as I share stress management tools, resources, and guest interviews to help you DARE TO BE free, calm, have more joy, create meaningful relationships, be your true and authentic self.
Want more wellness and mindset support, let’s connect at DaringWell.com or on YouTube at Daring Well Coach.
If you’re ready to Dare to be Well, let’s lean in!
The Daring Well Podcast - Holistic Health & Wellness, Mindset, and Personal Growth
Have a Soft Day – You Are Worthy of Softness
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This week on The Daring Well Podcast, we’re pausing our attachment styles series for something deeply needed — a reminder and permission slip to embrace softness.
This message is not just for women. It’s for men too!
In a world that glorifies hustle culture, grinding, and constant productivity, we often forget that we are human beings — not machines. You do not have to be strong and hardcore all the time. It is not only okay to have a soft day — it’s healthy.
In this heartfelt episode, Rita invites you to reflect on how you’re spending your 24 hours. Are you rushing them away? Dreading them? Wasting them? Or are you allowing space for simplicity, quiet, humility, and love?
Softness is found in:
- Appreciating the beauty in simple moments
- Giving yourself a day without an agenda
- Choosing quiet over constant stimulation
- Showing up humbly and loving deeply
If you’ve been grinding, grinning, and bearing it just to survive the day — this episode is your gentle wake-up call. That’s not living. That’s existing.
It’s time to conserve your energy, release unnecessary pressure, and invite softness into your daily and weekly routine.
You are worthy of softness.
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Daring Well Pop Up Shop
If you’re local to Cincinnati, OH — Rita will be selling candles, wax melts, and room sprays to benefit the Oak Hills High School Band. Mention that you heard this invitation on The Daring Well Podcast for a free gift 💛
Saturday, March 7, 2026 ~ 9 am - 3 pm
Oak Hills High School Band Spring Craft & Vendor Fair
3200 Ebenezer Road
Green Township, OH 45248
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