- 42 minutes 47 secondsWhat 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 when we remember that their soul journey is theirs, just as ours is ours?
This is a deeper conversation about the spiritual side of Recover Your Soul, about remembering our wholeness, releasing judgment, and beginning to see the people around us in a different way.
I'm sharing some of what I've been learning and experiencing, including some ideas about souls, our human experience, and why I believe the people who challenge us can sometimes be some of our greatest teachers.
As always, take what you need and leave the rest.
I'm just sharing what I'm discovering on my own journey, and I hope something in this conversation opens a new way of seeing for you too.
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17 August 2026, 7:00 am - 35 minutes 38 secondsHow 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.
For a long time, I believed that if one of my children was struggling, it was my job to figure out how to make it better. I thought worrying meant I was being a good mom. I thought helping meant offering advice, solving problems, and trying to keep them from making mistakes or being uncomfortable.
But my own healing has gently shown me something different.
What if our adult children aren't ours to fix, change or even to tell them what to do?
What if they're here to have their own unique human experience, learning through both their joys and their challenges on their soul journey?
What if loving them doesn't mean keeping them from discomfort, but trusting that even the difficult parts of their journey have purpose too. That doesn't mean we stop caring. It doesn't mean we stop loving or even supporting in a healthy way.
It simply means we begin releasing the belief that their happiness determines our own.
This conversation isn't about becoming a perfect parent. I certainly haven't been one. It's about exploring another way of seeing.
One that has brought so much more peace into my own heart.
If you've been lying awake worrying about your adult children, wishing you could make different choices for them, or wondering how to love them without losing yourself, I hope you'll find something in this conversation that may shift how you are seeing the situation and the people in your life- and in the end you find a little peace.
In This Episode
- Why worrying can quietly become another form of trying to control
- Seeing your adult children through love instead of fear
- How our own discomfort often fuels our desire to fix someone else's life
- Why acceptance becomes a path to peace
- Trusting your adult children's soul journey while continuing to love them deeply with healthy detachment
- Releasing the belief that someone else's happiness determines your own
- Returning your attention to your own healing and spiritual awakening
A Few Questions to Sit With
- Where am I carrying responsibility that isn't mine?
- What fears come up when I imagine letting go of control?
- Can I love someone deeply without trying to change them?
- What might become possible if I trusted both my journey and theirs?
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3 August 2026, 7:00 am - 34 minutes 8 secondsWhy 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 all. It was about an old belief that had quietly followed me through much of my life—that other people deserved more than I did.
As I became curious about those feelings, I realized that learning to receive has been one of the greatest spiritual lessons of my own Soul Recovery journey.
Healing isn't about getting more.
It's about releasing the beliefs, patterns, and stories that tell us we aren't enough.
When we begin to receive the same love, compassion, and kindness that we so freely offer everyone else, we open ourselves to a life rooted in abundance instead of lack, trust instead of fear, and wholeness instead of striving.
If you've ever struggled to believe you deserve love, support, joy, or simply something beautiful for yourself, I hope this conversation reminds you that you have never needed to earn your worth.
You already are enough.
A New Weekly Rhythm
Beginning July 2026, you'll receive a new episode every Monday between the 2 Recover Your Soul Podcasts.
One week you'll hear a full Recover Your Soul Podcast episode, and the next week you'll receive a Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast, where I share spiritual tools, practices, guided meditations, and inspiring interviews to support you on your healing journey.
Thank you for being part of this beautiful community. Whether you're just beginning your healing journey or you've been walking this path with me for years, I'm honored that we're recovering our souls together.
Until next time… Namaste. 💜
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20 July 2026, 7:00 am - 4 minutes 32 secondsA 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 YouTube and the Recover Your Soul website🧡 Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast
A new episode every other Monday for Apple Podcast Subscribers and Patreon members. You can also become a FREE Patreon member to enjoy each new Bonus episode during its first weeks after release before it moves into the subscriber library.With more than 600 episodes available, there is a wealth of support waiting for you. If you're navigating a particular challenge, try using the search feature in your podcast app or on Patreon. Search words like:
• Codependency
• People Pleasing
• Letting Go
• Boundaries
• Anxiety
• Sobriety
• Addiction
• Adult Children
• Higher Power
• Spiritual Awakening
• Relationships
• Forgiveness
• Detachment
• Self-Love
• ControlChances are you'll discover conversations, meditations, interviews, and teachings created for exactly what you're experiencing today.
If you're ever unsure where to find the latest episode or want to learn more about all of the Recover Your Soul offerings, visit RecoverYourSoul.net.
Thank you for being part of this beautiful community and for walking this healing and awakening journey with me.
Together we can do the work that will Recover Your Soul.
With love,
Rev Rachel Harrison
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13 July 2026, 7:00 am - 29 minutes 9 secondsLiving 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 heal, there comes a time when we realize that the old ways of doing things no longer fit who we are becoming. Making a different choice can bring up fear, uncertainty, and even the worry of disappointing others. But healing invites us to trust ourselves, listen to our inner guidance, and take the next right step—even when it feels uncomfortable.
I also share an exciting new chapter for the Recover Your Soul podcasts.
Beginning now, you'll receive a new Recover Your Soul episode every Monday, alternating between the main Recover Your Soul Podcast and the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast. This new rhythm will allow me to be even more present with our community through coaching, the 9-Step Self Study Collective, retreats, and the many ways we continue to walk this healing journey together.
The next Main Recover Your Soul Podcast will be released on July 20.
In the meantime, I hope you'll lean on the incredible library we've created together. Between the two podcasts, there are nearly 600 episodes covering everything from codependency, boundaries, anxiety, depression, adult children, addiction, forgiveness, people pleasing, grief, and spiritual awakening. Use the search bar on your favorite podcast app or at recoveryoursoul.net and let the library meet you exactly where you are. My hope is that you'll always find an episode that reminds you that you're not alone.
If you'd like to continue the journey between Main Podcast episodes, the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast is released every other Monday and includes deeper conversations, guided meditations, spiritual book studies, reflections on Al-Anon through the lens of the Recover Your Soul process, inspiring interviews, and our new Recover Your Soul Practices series—grounded spiritual tools and practices for everyday life.
You can listen to the Bonus Podcast every other Monday:
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✨ On Patreon as a Free Member, where new episodes are available for two weeks, or as a supporting member at $5, $15, or $25/month, with full access to the complete Bonus Podcast library and additional community offerings.Thank you for being part of this community. Whether you've been listening since 2020 or you've just found the podcast, I am so grateful you're here. Thank you for trusting me to walk beside you. It is one of the greatest honors of my life to share this journey with you as we continue remembering our wholeness, choosing love over fear, and creating lives of greater peace, freedom, and joy.
Together, we can do the work that will Recover Your Soul.
Rev Rachel 🧡
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6 July 2026, 7:00 am - 25 minutes 59 secondsAuthenticity 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 of the greatest gifts of healing is learning to be authentic. To be vulnerable. To speak our truth.
But authenticity doesn't mean sharing everything with everyone.
There is a profound difference between processing and sharing, and understanding that difference can transform our relationships, our healing, and the way we connect with others.
In this deeply personal episode, I share an experience where I found myself processing a painful story in a space that wasn't meant to hold that level of healing work. What felt embarrassing and uncomfortable at the time became a powerful gift on my own Soul Recovery journey.
I realized that sometimes our deepest healing doesn't happen by telling our story over and over. Sometimes it happens by finding the right container to process it, allowing ourselves to move through it with compassion, fully release it, and then sharing the wisdom that remains.
Healthy boundaries aren't only about saying "no."
They're also about honoring ourselves enough to know what belongs in a safe healing space and what belongs in everyday conversation.
As we recover our souls, we begin to recognize that authenticity and discernment can exist together. We don't have to choose between being real and protecting our peace. We can honor both.
In This Episode:
💜 The important difference between processing and sharing
💜 Why vulnerability needs healthy boundaries
💜 How to recognize when you're seeking connection versus seeking relief
💜 A personal story about receiving difficult feedback with compassion instead of shame
💜 The role of safe containers in emotional and spiritual healing
💜 Why old stories sometimes keep us stuck instead of helping us heal
💜 Learning to witness your reactions instead of becoming them
💜 How authenticity deepens when we release the need to explain or justify ourselves
💜 Healing people-pleasing and learning to trust your own inner wisdom
💜 Responding from your wholeness instead of your woundedness
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Until next time, namaste. 💜 Rev Rachel
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29 June 2026, 7:00 am - 32 minutes 44 secondsLetting 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 all of that fighting is often something much more tender: a desire to feel safe, valued, heard, and enough.
In this episode, I share a very personal story from my own marriage that reminded me how quickly old patterns can surface, even after years of healing. What started as an innocent comment from my husband unexpectedly activated a deep fear inside me, creating an opportunity to witness an old protective system that still occasionally shows up.
The beautiful thing about this work is that awareness changes everything.
As we heal, we begin to recognize that letting go of being right does not mean giving up our voice. It doesn't mean abandoning our needs, our boundaries, or our truth. Instead, it means releasing the belief that our peace depends on someone else agreeing with us.
When we stop fighting every battle, we discover something powerful: we can stand in our truth without needing to control anyone else's.
When we release the need to prove, convince, defend, and manage, we create space for something much deeper: compassion, connection, and inner freedom.
Your voice matters.
Your feelings matter.
Your perspective matters.
And you don't need anyone else's permission for that to be true.
Until next time, namaste. 💜
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22 June 2026, 7:00 am - 28 minutes 35 secondsWhen 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. Looking through pictures from years gone by brought forward an unexpected wave of emotion and a question many of us have asked ourselves:
Why did it have to be so hard?
As I sat with those feelings, I was reminded that healing isn't about pretending the past didn't happen. It's not about bypassing the pain or convincing ourselves that everything was perfect. Healing is about learning how to hold our memories with compassion, tenderness, and grace.
When we continue to replay our past through the lens of judgment, regret, and self-blame, we keep old wounds alive. But when we bring awareness, self-compassion, and spiritual understanding to those experiences, something begins to shift. The past remains the same, but our relationship to it can heal.
In this episode, we explore how to honor our feelings without becoming trapped in them, how to release old judgments, and how to view our lives through the lens of a soul's journey rather than a story of mistakes and failures.
Because the truth is, you cannot change the past.
But you can heal the way you carry it.
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15 June 2026, 7:00 am - 59 minutes 10 secondsMichael 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 healing, reminding us that beneath many of our struggles is a longing to reconnect with our true nature and remember the wholeness that has always existed within us.
Together we explore addiction as a spiritual issue rather than a moral failing, the relationship between recovery and awakening, the role of compassion and self-forgiveness, and how spiritual connection can help us heal the sense of separation that so many of us carry.
Whether you are in recovery yourself, love someone who struggles with addiction, or are simply walking a path of healing and spiritual growth, I believe you'll find wisdom, hope, and encouragement in this conversation.
Michael serves as the Spiritual Leader of the Global Center for Christ Consciousness in Sedona, Arizona, where he offers weekly teachings, workshops, retreats, and healing programs dedicated to spiritual awakening and personal transformation. He is the author of numerous best-selling books and the founder of the Daughters of Heaven Conference, a gathering devoted to healing, empowerment, and conscious living.
Michael Mirdad & The Global Center for Christ Consciousness: https://michaelmirdad.com/
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8 June 2026, 7:00 am - 27 minutes 30 secondsAre 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 unconscious habit of looking for what's wrong. We think that if we could just fix the relationship, heal the wound, change the circumstance, or get to the next goal, then we would finally be okay.
But what if peace isn't waiting on the other side of everything changing?
What if the invitation is to become aware of the lens through which we're already seeing our lives?
In this conversation, I explore the Buddhist teaching of the kleshas: attachment, resistance, and delusion. These are the habitual ways we become disconnected from our peace and our true nature. As I share in the Recover Your Soul process, these patterns often show up as our unconscious beliefs, stories, fears, judgments, and attempts to control life around us.
Together we'll look at how attachment keeps us grasping for things to be different, how resistance keeps us fighting reality, and how delusion can keep us trapped in old stories and misunderstandings that prevent us from seeing ourselves and our lives clearly.
This isn't about pretending everything is fine or pushing away difficult feelings. It's about learning to be present with what is, while bringing more awareness, compassion, and curiosity to the patterns that create suffering.
The beautiful gift of this work is that the very places where we get stuck can become doorways to wisdom, healing, and awakening.
In This Episode:
- What Pema Chödrön means by "the propensity for discontent"
- How the habit of looking for what's wrong affects our happiness
- Understanding the three kleshas: attachment, resistance, and delusion
- The connection between Buddhist wisdom and the Recover Your Soul process
- How our patterns, beliefs, and stories shape our experience of life
- Learning to witness difficult emotions without judging ourselves
- Why awareness is the first step toward healing and transformation
- How to find greater peace in the present moment, even when life isn't perfect
My hope is that this episode helps you become a little more aware of the ways you may be searching for what's missing and instead begin noticing what is already here. We are all learning together how to release old patterns, soften our judgments, and reconnect with the wholeness that has always existed within us.
As always, thank you for being part of the Recover Your Soul Community. It is an honor to walk this healing and awakening journey with you.
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1 June 2026, 7:00 am - 29 minutes 33 secondsDepression 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 spiritual journeys are all deeply connected and there is light on the other side.
Through the lens of the Recover Your Soul process, this episode explores how depression can sometimes become a protective response to overwhelming emotions, fear, stress, trauma, and self-rejection. Rev Rachel shares how learning to accept herself, release control, process old pain, and reconnect with her Higher Power became part of her healing journey alongside therapy, medication, and spiritual practice.
In this episode, we explore:- Depression from a spiritual and emotional healing perspective
- The connection between addiction, anxiety, and depression
- Why feelings are important information
- The role of medication and self-compassion in healing
- Patterns, beliefs, and stories that contribute to emotional suffering
- Letting go of self-rejection and learning to love yourself
- Finding hope and beginning your healing journey one step at a time
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