Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life

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 th...

Join the 9-Step Recover Your Soul Collective 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 ma...

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 try...

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 th...

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 wisd...

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 phr...

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...

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 bound...

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 vic...

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...

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...

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 o...

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 teen...

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 r...

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 millio...

Download the free Recover Your Soul 9-Step Mini Workbook and begin your healing today. 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...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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 wh...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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 1...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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 m...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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 ins...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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 epi...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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, bein...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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...

Free Recover Your Soul Mini Workbook 🦋 www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 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 at...