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

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

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 emot...

Season 7 Begins: Releasing the Inner Critic and Choosing Self-Compassion in 2026 As Season 7 of the Recover Your Soul Podcast begins, I invite you into a deeper conversation about healing self-judgment and choosing a more compassionate relationship with yourself. The spiritual path to a happy and healthy life is not linear. For many of us, the journey into healing begins through codependency, peop...

While I am away this month, I’m sharing another listener-favorite replay from the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast. This episode comes from our reflections on Al-Anon through the lens of the Recover Your Soul Process, exploring one of the most life-changing shifts on this journey: the surrender that frees us from codependency. So many of us have lived in the exhausting cycle of trying to fix, contr...

This week, while I am away, I’m sharing a replay from the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast. Together, we explore one of the tender teachings from Al-Anon through the lens of Recover Your Soul, the quiet courage it takes to stop pretending you’re fine and to gently return to yourself. Many of us learned to people-please as a way to stay safe. We tried to hold the family together, soften the edges fo...

What do you do when someone you love is hurting and you cannot fix it? This episode explores one of the most challenging spiritual lessons, learning to detach with love. Through the lens of both Al-Anon and the Recover Your Soul process, we look at how to witness another’s pain without absorbing it, rescuing them, or losing yourself in the process. We reflect on trusting each soul’s journey, creat...

As we close out 2025, I want to invite you to take a gentle moment to recognize how much you’ve grown . When you’re recovering from codependency, people-pleasing, and the habit of trying to manage everything around you, progress often shows up in quiet ways. A pause before reacting. A boundary you were once afraid to set. A moment of choosing peace over control. These shifts matter. They are the f...

The holidays have a way of bringing everything to the surface - the joy, the love, the tenderness, and also the old stories, the anxieties, and the patterns we thought we were done with. Being around family gives us a front-row seat to our operating system, the parts of us that still tighten, protect, or try to keep the peace. In this episode of Recover Your Soul , I talk about the real spiritual...

As we enter the holiday season, many of us feel the familiar pull of old patterns… the pressure to keep everyone happy, the fear of conflict, and the overwhelm of family dynamics. In this episode, we explore how gratitude can become a powerful spiritual tool. Not for fixing anyone else, but for staying grounded, present, and connected to your own inner peace. I share simple Recover Your Soul pract...

Many of us arrive here because someone we love is struggling - addiction, depression, or the weight of life - and we’ve carried it all, believing we had to fix it. But what if the moments that feel like collapse, yours or theirs, are actually the opening your soul has been waiting for? In this episode, we explore how “wall-hitting moments” can shift us from fear and managing to witnessing and allo...

Are You Helping or Enabling? Finding Peace in Loving Detachment It’s such a fine line - the space between helping and enabling - and that line looks different for every one of us. In this episode, I talk about what it means to love and care for someone without losing ourselves in the process. In the Recover Your Soul journey, we’re learning to see through a new perception - one that honors the sou...

What does it really mean to Recover Your Soul ? In this episode, I walk you through the updated 9-Step Recover Your Soul Process to Healing and Awakening™ -a spiritual path to a happy and healthy life. These nine steps were born from my own recovery from alcoholism, codependency, people-pleasing, and control addiction, and from the awakening that came when I finally stopped trying to fix everyone...

Do you ever find yourself awake at two in the morning, trying to solve everyone’s problems in your head? You’re not alone. In this episode, I share honestly about my own patterns of worry and control — and how even after years of spiritual practice, those old habits still show up sometimes. Worry is only natural when we love deeply, but when it takes over, it pulls us out of faith and into fear. T...

When we’ve spent years managing, fixing, or worrying about everyone else, it can feel impossible to stop. But real peace begins the moment we let go of control and turn the attention to ourselves. In this heartfelt episode, Rev. Rachel shares how a week camping with her family became a powerful lesson in loving detachment, boundaries, and spiritual sovereignty . Through laughter, worry, and grace,...

What if the bravest act of love is stepping back? Parenting an adult child who’s struggling with addiction can feel like walking a tightrope between love and heartbreak. In this episode, we explore what it means to R ecover Your Soul while learning to let go with grace. Rev Rachel Harrison offers heartfelt guidance on how to hold firm boundaries without withdrawing your love, how to separate behav...

In this week’s episode of the Recover Your Soul Podcast , I’m joined by a true spiritual sister — Ester Nicholson , coach, teacher, and author of Soul Recovery: The 12 Keys to Healing Dependence . From the moment we met, I knew our paths were divinely aligned. We both use the language of Soul Recovery to describe the journey of returning to our authentic selves — the place of peace, power, and div...

In this episode of Recover Your Soul , I open up about the real and sometimes painful work of loving ourselves fully—both the light and the shadow. We live in a world that says “be authentic,” while at the same time pushing perfection through filters, quick fixes, and unrealistic expectations. It’s no wonder we feel torn between who we really are and who we think we’re supposed to be. Through the...

When the world feels overwhelming—whether it’s family struggles, the pain of watching a loved one in addiction, or the heaviness of our collective challenges—it’s easy to believe that peace will come once everything “out there” finally settles down. But in Soul Recovery, we learn that waiting for the outside world to change keeps us trapped in fear and frustration. The real transformation begins w...

Have you ever caught yourself thinking, "I'm only as happy as my least happy child"? This seemingly loving sentiment actually reveals a profound codependent belief that makes us responsible for others' emotions while neglecting our own healing journey. As I discovered with my own family, no amount of fixing or controlling could make my unhappy child happy—that was his journey t...

Individual Sou Recovery work can create temporary disconnection in relationships as both partners evolve at different rates and in different ways. The 9-Step Soul Recovery Process offers a path to navigate these challenges by focusing first on healing ourselves rather than trying to change our partners. Check out Part 2 on the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast for FREE and paid Patreon Members and A...

In this week’s episode of the Recover Your Soul Podcast , we go right to the heart of the question—what is the soul, and what does it mean to truly recover it? For some, this may feel like a brand-new conversation. For others, it may be a familiar curiosity or even a long-standing knowing. Wherever you are on your path, you are welcome here. Together, we explore ideas of reincarnation, karma, and...

In this episode of the Recover Your Soul Podcast , we explore one of the most important and tender parts of the Soul Recovery journey— making peace with painful memories. When we hold on to resentment, we keep ourselves tied to the very moments that wounded us, replaying them again and again in our minds and bodies. True freedom comes not from erasing the past or pretending it didn’t happen, but f...

This week, I’m sharing something special with the whole Recover Your Soul community — an episode that originally aired on the Bonus Podcast back in June. The Bonus Podcast is where we take a deeper dive into Soul Recovery, with spiritual book studies, guest conversations, and real-life reflections inspired by Al-Anon, metaphysics, and the healing journey within. If you’ve never tuned in, I wanted...

In this week’s episode, I sit with a heartfelt question from our community— how do we hold someone accountable without slipping into control and codependence? —and we look honestly at what true support really is, including whether asking a spouse to “prove” sobriety crosses a line; from a Soul Recovery perspective, we remember that we are powerless over other people and powerful within ourselves,...

So many of us have spent our lives trying to earn love, approval, and belonging by shape-shifting into what we think others need us to be. We become people-pleasers, fixers, and emotional caretakers—losing ourselves in the process. In this episode of the Recover Your Soul Podcast, we explore what it really means to break free from codependency and control, and how the Soul Recovery process helps u...