• 27 minutes 54 seconds
    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. 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 32 seconds
    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 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/

    Daughters of Heaven Conference: https://daughtersofheaven.com

    The Heart of A Course in Miracles Workshop:
    https://courses.michaelmirdad.com/courses/the-heart-of-a-course-in-miracles-2026

    Weekly Sunday Service live on YouTube 11 am: @MichaelMirdad

    Facebook: Michael Mirdad

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    8 June 2026, 7:00 am
  • 26 minutes 50 seconds
    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 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
  • 28 minutes 53 seconds
    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 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


    If you are walking through a dark season right now, this episode is a reminder that you are not broken, you are not alone, and healing is possible in many different forms.

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    25 May 2026, 7:00 am
  • 27 minutes 52 seconds
    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 process, we begin to recognize the patterns and beliefs that taught us we were responsible for everyone else’s feelings. We start learning how to trust our own inner knowing, stop overexplaining ourselves, and make choices that align with who we are becoming.

    Choosing yourself is not selfish. It’s sacred, and so is setting healthy boundaries.

    This work can feel uncomfortable, especially when old relationships and patterns push back. But there is also freedom and peace that comes when you stop abandoning yourself in order to keep everyone else comfortable.

    You are allowed to have needs.
    You are allowed to say no.
    You are allowed to choose yourself with love.

    Together, we can do the work that will Recover Your Soul.

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    18 May 2026, 7:00 am
  • 40 minutes 54 seconds
    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 still carry today.

    So often we dismiss our own feelings by saying, “They did the best they could.” And while that may be true, healing also asks us to allow ourselves to recognize the impact those experiences had on us emotionally, spiritually, and even within our nervous systems.

    This conversation is also about forgiving ourselves.

    As mothers, so many of us carry guilt, shame, regret, and the fear that we somehow got it wrong. We wanted to do better. We wanted to love well. And yet we are human beings carrying our own wounds, patterns, and limitations while trying to raise children in a complicated world.

    Healing begins when we allow ourselves to stop carrying the blame.

    This is an invitation to witness yourself with compassion, to honor the truth of your experience, and to begin releasing the weight you were never meant to carry forever.

    Your healing matters.
    Your forgiveness matters.
    And the love you learn to offer yourself has the power to change everything.

    Together, we can do the work that will Recover Your Soul.

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    11 May 2026, 7:00 am
  • 37 minutes 11 seconds
    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 beginning to recognize when we are acting from fear and discomfort, and when we are responding from a more grounded, soulful place.

    So often, our desire to help comes from not wanting to feel the pain of watching someone struggle. But what if peace doesn’t come from changing them? What if it comes from acceptance?

    As we shift from saving to supporting, we begin to let go of control and trust that each soul is on its own journey. We can still love deeply, still be present, but from a place of clarity, compassion, and healthier boundaries.

    If you’re feeling overwhelmed or unsure of how to show up for someone you love, you are not alone. This is the work, and there is another way.

    Remember, this isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about recovering the wholeness that has always been within you.

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    4 May 2026, 7:00 am
  • 29 minutes 33 seconds
    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 true self, and choose a new reality rooted in peace, authenticity, and love.

    In This Episode:

    •  How codependency shapes your reality 
    •  Letting go of control and people-pleasing 
    •  Spiritual awakening as a shift in perception 
    •  Releasing old beliefs and identities 
    •  Aligning with your authentic self 
    •  Creating a life rooted in peace 

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    27 April 2026, 7:00 am
  • 33 minutes 48 seconds
    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 even read the book. His willingness to let me share our real story with the world is one of the greatest gifts he has ever given me. Thank you Rich. 🤍

    This is a real honest conversation about what actually shifts in a relationship when one person commits to healing their codependency. Not because it fixes anyone else. But because something changes. Quietly, steadily, and profoundly. We talk about anger, intensity, conflict, and the Jenga tower concept that changed how we handle hard moments together.

    If you are doing this work and wondering whether it will make a difference in your relationships — this episode is for you.

    📖 Recover Your Soul — available now on Amazon → https://amzn.to/4sDvKeE An honest review means everything — thank you. 🤍

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    20 April 2026, 7:00 am
  • 27 minutes 55 seconds
    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 drinking. But it was Al-Anon that saved my life.

    And then something deeper began to unfold. A spiritual awakening that moved through 12 steps, metaphysics, Buddhism, and a completely different perception of what healing actually is. And out of that journey came the Recover Your Soul Nine Step Process, and eventually this spiritual memoir.

    Thank you Mattie Murrey for being my coach and Collaborator- she can help you write a book too!!!

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    13 April 2026, 7:00 am
  • 37 minutes 50 seconds
    Letting Go of People Pleasing: Stop Betraying Yourself and Choosing Your Authentic Self

    Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook — your soul journey starts here: www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul

    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 actually want? 

    That question is at the center of the Recover Your Soul process. And it is at the heart of my new memoir Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey of Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People Pleasing — launching April 13th. (Help me to get the book out into the world!! Make this a Best Seller, and then write a review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

    We talk about what happens when you begin to disrupt the roles others have come to expect from you, and why the discomfort you feel when you finally choose yourself is not a sign you got it wrong. It is a sign that something real is shifting.

    This episode is an invitation to get curious. To ask yourself where you are still forming yourself around someone else's approval. And to recognize that choosing yourself — fully, finally — is not selfish. It is the most healing thing you will ever do. 🤍

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    6 April 2026, 6:00 am
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