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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 reading directly from How Al-Anon Works for Family and Friends of Alcoholics — specifically Al-Anon's First Step — and reflecting 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 alongside the Recover Your Soul Nine Step Process, including the 3 C's of Al-Anon — you didn't cause it, you can't control it, and you can't cure it — and why these truths are the gateway to real healing.

Admitting powerlessness is not defeat. It is the beginning of your freedom.

Take what resonates. Leave what doesn't. You are not alone — your soul remembers the way.

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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 patterns in real time, when I was learning how to turn inward instead of reaching outward in pain. There is a rawness in them that feels honest and important.

This episode on betrayal is one of those. It originally aired in 2023 from Season 4.

Betrayal can take many forms. It is not only about infidelity. It can be secrecy. Addiction. Emotional withdrawal. Broken promises. The moment when something you believed to be true suddenly isn’t. It can feel shattering.

And yet, in the Recover Your Soul process, we gently shift the focus away from trying to fix

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I would love to hear from you! Send me a one way text and share how Recover Your Soul is supporting you or what you would like to hear more about.

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 own body, and our own truth for survival.

True self-love is the courageous act of opening your heart while staying rooted in who you are.

In this conversation, I share about the ways codependency teaches us to abandon ourselves in relationships, why protecting your heart is natural, and how those protectors form. We explore the difference between tran

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Start your journey with the FREE Recover Your Soul™ 9-Step Mini-Workbook- A gentle spiritual path to healing, letting go, and awakening.

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not allied or representative of any organizations or religions, but is based on the opinions and experience of Rev. Rachel Harrison or guests. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein. Take what you need and leave the rest.

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I would love to hear from you! Send me a one way text and share how Recover Your Soul is supporting you or what you would like to hear more about.

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 to Southeast Asia that gave me just enough space to remember who I am beneath the chaos. I share the moment that surprised me most, the car ride home from the airport when the old stress returned fast and I could feel the pull to escape rise up in my body. That was the moment I knew I had to choose myself.

Inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, we explore the pain body as the unconscious part of us that clings to old wounds,

Join us on March 2nd for the next Recover Your Soul FREE Support Group on Zoom from 6-7PM Mountain time. Register on the website https://www.recoveryoursoul.net/eventsgroupsworkshops

Recover Your Soul is a community and you do not have to do this walk alone. Join me in Recover Your SOUL CIRCLE group coaching and connect with others who are in similar situations - Parents of Adult Children, Partners and Family and the Alumni Circles.
If you want a weekend of transformation- join me for a weekend Retreat.

Start your journey with the FREE Recover Your Soul™ 9-Step Mini-Workbook- A gentle spiritual path to healing, letting go, and awakening.

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not allied or representative of any organizations or religions, but is based on the opinions and experience of Rev. Rachel Harrison or guests. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein. Take what you need and leave the rest.

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I would love to hear from you! Send me a one way text and share how Recover Your Soul is supporting you or what you would like to hear more about.

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 from your spiritual center in times of uncertainty.

You don’t have to be consumed by fear to care deeply.
You can choose compassion, presence, and peace and still be part of meaningful change.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, sensitive, or unsure how to stay grounded right now I hope this episode brings you some peace in remembering your soul's journ

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If you want a weekend of transformation- join me for a weekend Retreat.

Start your journey with the FREE Recover Your Soul™ 9-Step Mini-Workbook- A gentle spiritual path to healing, letting go, and awakening.

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not allied or representative of any organizations or religions, but is based on the opinions and experience of Rev. Rachel Harrison or guests. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein. Take what you need and leave the rest.

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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, my marriage, my recovery journey, and what I’ve witnessed walking alongside hundreds of people on their healing path. For me, blame often showed up as “trying to help,” “pointing things out,” or wishing someone else would change and how spiritual practice helped me see what was really happening underneath.

We explore how releasing blame doesn’t mean minimizing your pain or pretending things didn’t matter. It means becoming willing to be honest with yourself, to turn inward, and to stop giving your power away.

When we choose responsibility over resentment, validate our feelings, and allow others

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This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not allied or representative of any organizations or religions, but is based on the opinions and experience of Rev. Rachel Harrison or guests. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein. Take what you need and leave the rest.

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I would love to hear from you! Send me a one way text and share how Recover Your Soul is supporting you or what you would like to hear more about.

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 over, the urge to fix it, smooth it over, or make it better and to make it my fault.

What made this moment different is that I stayed present with myself.

This episode is about learning how to stay grounded when someone you love is frustrated or upset, without absorbing their energy, abandoning yourself, or shutting down emotionally. It’s about allowing others to have their feelings while learning that you don’t have to carry them.

Through the lens of the Recover Your Soul Process, we explore how acceptance, awareness, and loving boundaries help us respond differently. Not perfectly, but consciously. Not by disconnecting, but by staying rooted in compassion and self-trust using loving detachment.

Healing doesn’t mean the people in our lives will never be frustrated again. It means we no longer lose ourselves when they are.

You are allowed to be okay even when someone you love isn’t.
You don’t have to carry what isn’t yours.

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not allied or representative of any organizations or religions, but is based on the opinions and experience of Rev. Rachel Harrison or guests. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein. Take what you need and leave the rest.

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I would love to hear from you! Send me a one way text and share how Recover Your Soul is supporting you or what you would like to hear more about.

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: Acceptance as a Path to Peace. We explore what acceptance really means from a spiritual perspective and what it does not mean. Acceptance is not giving up, denying reality, or tolerating what harms us. It is learning to see what is clearly, without resistance, so we can stop abandoning ourselves and begin healing.

This episode invites you to consider a new possibility:
That your happiness does not require anyone else to change or heal.

In this episode, we explore:

• How codependency teaches u

Join us on March 2nd for the next Recover Your Soul FREE Support Group on Zoom from 6-7PM Mountain time. Register on the website https://www.recoveryoursoul.net/eventsgroupsworkshops

Recover Your Soul is a community and you do not have to do this walk alone. Join me in Recover Your SOUL CIRCLE group coaching and connect with others who are in similar situations - Parents of Adult Children, Partners and Family and the Alumni Circles.
If you want a weekend of transformation- join me for a weekend Retreat.

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not allied or representative of any organizations or religions, but is based on the opinions and experience of Rev. Rachel Harrison or guests. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein. Take what you need and leave the rest.

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