Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life
Welcome to the Recover Your Soul™ Community- A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life.If you've spent your life people pleasing, fixing, and managing everyone while losing yourself, this podcast will help you let go of what was never yours to carry, and step fully into your authentic and whole self.Welcome to the Recover Your Soul™ Community. Join Rev. Rachel Harrison, spiritual coach and author of Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey of Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People Pleasing, for a compassionate and practical path for releasing control, healing relationship patterns, and remembering your wholeness.Rooted in th...
When the World Feels Overwhelming: How to Find Inner Peace Without Looking Away
Does the world feel like a lot to hold right now? I know I’ve been feeling it. There is so much happening around us, so much uncertainty, so much that can leave us feeling worried, unsettled, or wondering how we’re supposed to find our peace in the middle of it all.
And sometimes it isn’t just the world. It’s our families, our relationships, the people we love, and the things happening in our own lives that we wish we could make better.
In this episode of the Recover Your Soul Podcast, I’m shar...
Healing Yourself First: Energy Work, Intuition & Healthier Relationships with Ann Bruinsma
I’m bringing this bonus episode over to the main Recover Your Soul podcast feed because this conversation feels so aligned with the heart of the work we do together. If you love this conversation and want to hear more like it, join me on Patreon or Apple Podcasts for a library of over 200 episodes to support your soul journey. https://www.patreon.com/c/RecoverYourSoul
I often say the most important thing we can do for the people we love is to begin healing ourselves.
Have you ever found yourself trying to fix...
What If You’re Not Crazy? Learning to Trust Your Intuition & Spiritual Guidance
What if you’re not crazy? What if some of those thoughts, feelings, and knowings you've learned to dismiss are actually invitations to listen more deeply?
For many of us, especially those of us who have lived with codependency, people pleasing, or a deep fear of judgment, trusting our own inner knowing can be really difficult. We can become so accustomed to looking outside of ourselves for approval, direction, and reassurance that we stop listening to what we already know within.
And if you've always been deeply empathetic, you may have experienced this in...
Your Feelings Are a Navigation System You Can Trust: Soul Practice
What if your feelings aren't something you need to fix or get rid of, but a navigation system you can learn to trust?
For a long time, many of us learned to push our feelings away, ignore them, judge them, or immediately try to make them go away. We react, we worry, we control, we fix, or we look outside of ourselves for someone else to tell us what we should feel or do.
But our feelings are giving us information.
In this Soul Practice, I share a simple way to...
Your Loved One Is Still Drinking: Al-Anon, Detachment & Family Vacations
What happens when someone you love is still drinking, and you are learning how to be okay even when the people around you may or may not be okay?
I recently came home from a family vacation to Hawaii, and while there were so many beautiful moments, there was also a very real 24 hours that brought some old patterns right to the surface. It gave me another opportunity to practice what I have been learning through Al-Anon, my own sobriety, and the Recover Your Soul process.
For me, Al-Anon was the place where...
Recover Your Soul Practices: Breath Practice for Anxiety, Stress, and Overwhelm
Recover Your Soul Practices: The Power of the Breath
What if one of the simplest spiritual practices is something you are already doing all day long?
Your breath is always with you. It can bring you back to the present moment, help you slow down, and create a little more space between what is happening around you and how you are choosing to respond.
In this Soul Practice, we explore the breath as a simple and accessible way to turn within, reconnect with ourselves, settle into the present moment, and create...
The Power of Self-Forgiveness: A Process to Release Shame, Guilt, and Regret
What if one of the most powerful things we can do for our healing is to stop holding ourselves hostage to the past?
I have been thinking a lot about self-forgiveness lately. We can spend so much of our lives going back over what we should have done, what we wish we had said, the choices we regret, the ways we think we failed, or the times we weren't who we wanted to be. And when we keep judging ourselves for those moments, we keep ourselves connected to the pain.
In this episode, I share...
How to Find Peace Without Changing the Situation: The “All Is Well” Soul Practice
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What do you do when something is happening that you really, really want to change?
When you're worried about someone you love, something isn't going the way you hoped, or you're feeling triggered and activated, our first instinct can be to try to fix it, control it, or make it different.
But what if peace doesn't require the situation to change?
In this Soul Practice, I want...
Choosing to Be Spiritually Awake: Releasing Control, Changing Your Perception, and Finding Peace
What does it mean to be spiritually awake? I don't believe it means that life suddenly becomes easy or that we stop having painful, complicated, very human experiences. Life is still going to be lifey. For me, awakening is becoming more aware of what is happening inside of me and remembering that I have a choice in how I experience what is happening around me.
In this episode, I share a very real situation with my son that gave me an opportunity to practice the Recover Your Soul Process right in the middle of...
What Changes When You See People as Souls? Releasing the Need to Fix, Judge, or Change Them
I've been thinking a lot about how we choose to see and interact with the people in our lives. Especially the ones we love the most.
What if we could begin to see them not just as their choices, their behaviors, their wounds, or the stories we've created about them, but as souls having their own human experience?
What happens when we stop trying to fix people?
What happens when we release the need for them to be different so that we can be okay?
And what happens...
How to Stop Worrying About Your Adult Children: Letting Go of Control and Trusting Their Journey
If you're a parent, you probably know this feeling.
No matter how old our children are, we never stop wanting to protect them. We want to guide them, encourage them, and help them avoid some of the heartache we experienced ourselves.
I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
As my own boys have grown into adulthood, I've realized that one of the greatest invitations of this stage of parenting isn't learning how to love them more. It's learning how to trust their journey while continuing to love them deeply.
<...Why Is It So Hard to Receive Love? Healing Self-Worth and Learning You're Enough
Have you ever noticed that it's easier to give love than to receive it?
As recovering people pleasers and codependents, many of us learned to care for everyone else first. We became experts at giving our time, our energy, our love, and our attention, but when it comes to receiving those same gifts, we often hesitate.
Why?
In this episode, I share a very personal story about buying a new car and how something that seemed so ordinary uncovered a much deeper invitation to healing. What surfaced wasn't really about the car at...
A New Rhythm For Recover Your Soul
A New Rhythm for Recover Your Soul
After over six years of sharing two new podcast episodes every week, Recover Your Soul is beginning a new weekly rhythm.
Going forward, you'll still receive a new Recover Your Soul episode every Monday—alternating each week between the main Recover Your Soul Podcast and the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast.
Here's how it works:
🦋 Main Recover Your Soul Podcast
Available free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, and all major podcast platforms including video on YouTu...
Living in Alignment: How to Trust Yourself When Change Feels Uncomfortable
Living in Alignment: How to Trust Yourself When Change Feels Uncomfortable
Living in alignment isn't about having all the answers. It's about learning to trust the quiet inner knowing that calls you toward a new way of being, even when change feels uncomfortable.
In this episode, I share a personal example of what it means to live Step 7 of the Recover Your Soul process: aligning your thoughts, words, and actions with the person you are becoming instead of the fears, expectations, and old patterns you've carried for so long.
As we...
Authenticity and Healthy Boundaries: Knowing When to Process and When to Share
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Every once in a while, I revisit a Bonus Podcast episode that feels especially relevant to where we are on our soul journey, and this is one of those conversations.
A longtime listener recently reached out to tell me this was one of the most impactful episodes I've shared. As I listened to it again, I realized how beautifully it connects with so many of the conversations we've been having lately about authenticity, healthy boundaries, self-awareness, and choosing peace over old protective patterns.
One...
Letting Go of Being Right: How to Take Your Power Back and Choose Inner Peace
Letting Go of Being Right: How to Take Your Power Back and Choose Inner Peace
As recovering people pleasers and codependents, many of us learned that if we could just explain ourselves better, convince someone of our point of view, or get them to see things our way, everything would finally feel okay.
The problem is that living this way keeps us on an emotional battlefield.
We become exhausted trying to manage, control, fix, defend, and prove. We fight for approval. We fight to be understood. We fight to be right. And underneath...
When Looking Back Hurts: Releasing Regret, Judgment, and Old Wounds through Self-Compassion and Grace
Have you ever looked back on a season of your life and wished it had been different?
Maybe you wish you had known then what you know now. Maybe you wish you had made different choices, shown up differently, or been able to protect the people you love from pain. Perhaps there are memories that still carry regret, remorse, sadness, or a lingering sense that things should have gone another way.
In this episode, I share a deeply personal experience that arose as I prepared to send family photo albums and keepsakes to my sons...
Michael Mirdad | Addiction, Spiritual Recovery, and Healing the Void Within
While I usually reserve guest interviews for the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast, today's conversation is one I felt called to bring to all of you here on the main show.
I'm honored to welcome Michael Mirdad, a Spiritual Teacher, Healer, Mystic, and Best-Selling Author. Michael has spent more than four decades helping people heal, awaken, and deepen their connection to God, blending wisdom from Christianity, Buddhism, A Course in Miracles, and recovery in a way that is both profound and deeply practical.
In this conversation, he shares a powerful perspective on addiction, recovery, and...
Are You Looking for What's Wrong? Breaking Free from the Habit of Discontent
Have you ever noticed that even when things are going well, there can still be a part of you looking for what's missing, what's not working, or what needs to change before you can finally feel at peace?
In this episode of Recover Your Soul, I share a teaching from Pema Chödrön's book How We Live Is How We Die that has stayed with me for weeks: the propensity for discontent.
The phrase struck me because I could see how often many of us move through life carrying an un...
Depression and the Recover Your Soul Process: Finding Hope, Healing, and Self-Compassion
Depression can feel incredibly isolating, heavy, and difficult to explain—especially when you’re trying so hard just to keep moving through life. In this episode, Rev Rachel shares her personal experience with depression, anxiety, addiction, emotional overwhelm, and the spiritual journey that slowly helped her begin reconnecting with herself, her soul, and a deeper sense of hope.
This conversation is not about bypassing mental health or pretending there is a quick fix. It’s about compassion. It’s about understanding that being human is complex, and that our emotional pain, patterns, beliefs, stories, nervous systems, and spir...
Choosing Yourself Isn’t Selfish: Boundaries, Saying No, and Taking Your Power Back
For so many of us, saying no can feel almost unbearable. We want everyone to be okay, and somewhere along the way we learned that keeping the peace often meant abandoning ourselves.
But there comes a moment on this journey where something inside says… this doesn’t feel right anymore.
In this episode, we continue the conversation around helping versus enabling and move into the sacred work of boundaries. Not boundaries as punishment or control, but boundaries as clarity, self-respect, and learning how to come home to yourself.
Through the Recover Your Soul proc...
Healing Mother Wounds: Forgiving Your Mother and Yourself
Mother’s Day can bring up so many emotions. For some, it’s a beautiful day filled with love and connection. And for many others, it can be layered with grief, disappointment, longing, resentment, confusion, or the ache of not having received what was needed.
In this episode, we explore the healing of mother wounds through the lens of the Recover Your Soul process. Not to stay stuck in blame or victimhood, but to create space to honestly acknowledge what was felt, what was missing, and how those early experiences shaped the patterns, beliefs, and stories we stil...
Are You Helping… or Enabling? The Shift from Saving to Supporting and Setting Boundaries
It can be such a fine line between helping and enabling, between supporting someone we love and trying to save them. When you’re in it, it’s hard to see clearly. You feel their pain, and everything in you wants to make it better.
In this episode, I share from my own experience and from the Recover Your Soul process about what it really means to love someone without trying to fix them. This isn’t about finding the “right” answer, because every relationship and every situation is unique. It’s about turning inward and beginnin...
Choosing Your Reality: Codependency, Spiritual Awakening, and Aligning With Who You Are Becoming
What if the life you are experiencing is shaped by the thoughts you think, the beliefs you hold, and the patterns you continue to repeat?
In this episode of Recover Your Soul, Rev Rachel explores how codependency, people-pleasing, fear, and the need to control others can keep us stuck in painful cycles—and how spiritual awakening begins when we turn inward.
Healing starts when we stop waiting for others to change and begin asking: Who am I becoming?
This episode is an invitation to release old survival patterns, reconnect with your tr...
How Healing My Codependency Changed Everything- A Real Conversation With My Husband
This one is a little different. And a little special.
Today I am joined by my husband Rich — the man who has been by my side through all of it. Nearly 34 years together, two recovering alcoholics, kids in addiction, a marriage that almost did not make it, and a healing journey that quietly changed everything between us.
We are talking about the new memoir — Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey of Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People Pleasing — and what Rich experienced reading our story told through my eyes. Rich wrote the foreword before he had ev...
Al-Anon Saved My Life- And Then the Recover Your Soul Process Changed Everything
Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey of Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People Pleasing is available now on Amazon. If you are listening on launch day — April 13th — please grab your copy today and leave an honest review. It means everything. 🧡
It is book launch day. And I am so grateful you are here.
Eight years ago I was two months into sobriety, my family was in chaos, and my teenage son was deep in his addiction. AA was where I got accountable for my drinkin...
Letting Go of People Pleasing: Stop Betraying Yourself and Choosing Your Authentic Self
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There is a movement happening right now, and if you have found your way to this community, you are already part of it. A movement away from codependency, people pleasing, and betraying yourself to keep everyone else comfortable.
So many of us have spent a lifetime in the supporting role and forming ourselves around what our partners want, what our kids need, what our families expect — without ever asking: who am I, and what do I...
From Homeless Heroin Addict to Helping Millions: Eric Zimmer on How a Little Becomes a Lot
A Special Episode: Eric Zimmer on How a Little Becomes a Lot
This week I'm sharing something a little different and I think you're going to be really glad I did.
Eric Zimmer is the host of The One You Feed, one of the most beloved personal growth podcasts out there, and his new book How a Little Becomes a Lot comes out March 31st. His story, from homeless heroin addict to helping millions of people change their lives is inspiriting and a reminder that there is always hope.
We recorded...
Are Codependency and Fear Running Your Life? How to Recognize the Loop, Release It, and Rewrite What's True
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Something unexpected happened when I sat down to go through old photos in preparation for my upcoming book Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey, Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People Pleasing (releasing April 13th, 2026) — I saw the Recover Your Soul process is healing the old wounds and allowing me to rewrite my story.
In this episode I take you deep into what it means to finally recognize the fear loop that runs quietly underneath even your be...
Linda Howe: The Akashic Records and Your Soul's Healing Journey Through the Heart
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What if there was a resource available to every one of us — one that holds the complete record of your soul's journey, meets you exactly where you are, and responds only with love and compassion? No judgment. No shame. No rejection. That is the Akashic Records. And today I am sitting down with the teacher who opened that door for me.
Linda Howe is one of the world's leading Akashic Records teachers and author of the newly updated How to Read the Akashic Records.
For...
From Alcoholism and Codependency to Wholeness: The Story Behind My Memoir and Healing journey
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Something really big is happening.
After more than a year of dedication, vulnerability, late nights, self-doubt, and some of the most profound healing I have ever done, my memoir is almost here. Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey of Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People Pleasing releases on April 13th, 2026. And this weekend, I held the paperback copy in my hands for the first time and I was elated and excited to have it come to life and share with the world.
I...
I Am Married to an Alcoholic: Practicing Detachment and Turning the Attention Back to Yourself
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I want to share something with you before you press play on this one.
This is a replay from about three and a half years ago, an episode I recorded after a trip to Sayulita, Mexico, where my husband came clean that he had continued to 'dabble' with drinking, even after the profound changes we had both made in our lives with recovery. Going back to edit it brought all of it up again. The grief. The love. The complexity of it.
Because her...
Admitted We Are Powerless Over Alcohol: Al-Anon Step One and the Recover Your Soul Process
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The most downloaded Recover Your Soul episodes continue to be the ones connected to Al-Anon — and today I'm going back to the roots.
I'm reflecting from How Al-Anon Works for Family and Friends of Alcoholics — specifically Al-Anon's First Step — and on how this profound, foundational step lives inside the Recover Your Soul process.
Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — and that our lives had become unmanageable.
In this episode we explore the First Step of Al-Anon...
When Trust Is Shattered: A Spiritual Path Through Betrayal
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As I prepare for the release of my memoir, Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey of Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People-Pleasing, on April 13th, I have been going back and listening to past podcast episodes that might offer additional support to those reading the book.
Revisiting these earlier episodes has been a tender experience.
They were recorded during seasons of my own healing when everything was still fresh, when I was actively untangling old pat...
From Codependency to Self-Love: How to Open Your Heart Without Abandoning Yourself | Recover Your Soul
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What if loving deeply didn’t mean losing yourself?
In this episode, I reflect on self-love through the lens of the Recover Your Soul process and my own journey from codependency, control, and self-sacrifice into something far more grounded and whole.
So many of us learned early on that love meant being good, being helpful, being quiet, being compliant, or being whatever someone else needed us to be. We became experts at caring for everyone else while slowly disconnecting from our own voice, our o...
Presence Over Escape | 8 Years Sober and Healing the Pain Body
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What if the real healing isn’t found in forcing yourself to be stronger, but in deciding its time to awaken?
I’m a couple days away from celebrating 8 years sober, and I’m sharing this as a Soul Journey story. When I finally decided to stop drinking, it was more than giving up alcohol. It was a decision to listen to my Higher Self and step fully into the life my soul was asking for.
In this episode, I take you back to a trip...
You Can Choose Compassion Over Panic And Still Create Change | Recover Your Soul
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Many of us are feeling it — the intensity, the fear, the sense that everything is changing all at once.
In this episode, I share a grounded, heart-centered reflection on how to stay connected to peace when the world feels unstable. Not by disconnecting or pretending things aren’t happening, but by learning how to witness the experience without losing yourself in it.
Through the Recover Your Soul lens, I talk about fear, control, collective energy, and what it means to live fr...
Releasing Blame: Choosing Honesty, Responsibility, and Healing to Recover Your Soul
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This year’s theme is Acceptance as a Path to Peace, and in this episode I return to a topic that quietly keeps so many of us stuck: blame.
Blame can feel justified when life has been painful. When relationships are complicated. When we’ve felt hurt, abandoned, or misunderstood. But over time, blame keeps our attention focused outward, tying our sense of peace to other people’s choices and behavior.
In this episode, I share honestly from my own life...
How to Stay Grounded When Someone You Love Is Frustrated or Upset with the Recover Your Soul Process
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If you’re an empath, a people-pleaser, or someone healing from codependency, you know how quickly another person’s mood can affect your own.
In this episode, I share a very real moment from my own life that happened on my birthday, when my husband had a tense reaction over a small laundry mishap. It wasn’t a big moment, but it was a familiar one. His frustration immediately shifted the energy in the room, and I could feel my old patterns wanting to take o...
You Can Be Happy Even When Others Aren’t: Acceptance as a Path to Healing from Codependency
You Can Be Happy Even When Others Aren’t: Acceptance as a Path to Healing from Codependency
One of the most painful beliefs many of us carry is that we can only be okay when the people around us are okay.
This belief sits at the core of codependency, people-pleasing, control, and self-abandonment. It keeps us exhausted, anxious, and disconnected from our own lives as we try to manage, fix, or emotionally carry the experiences of others.
In this episode, I introduce the theme for 2026 on the Recover Your Soul Podcast: ...
