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

Sometimes, we may find our lives overwhelming because we give others the power to control our emotions, and sometimes we may even struggle to identify our own feelings. However, our feelings offer insights into what we need to prioritize, such as nurturing what's causing us pain or pursuing activities that bring us joy. By reclaiming our power and refusing to allow others to dictate our emoti...

I was inspired by a question from Al-Anon's  workbook ' Reaching for Personal Freedom' in the chapter for Step One that read "What keeps me holding onto the illusion that I have the power to change someone else?" Seeing that it is only an illusion that we can change others is a crucial step in achieving personal freedom and growth. It is natural to want to help those we ca...

Do You Have to Change Your Life to Heal? Finding Peace Where You Are In this episode, we explore a question so many of us ask on our healing path. Do I need to change my life to feel better? When things feel uncomfortable, it is natural to want something outside of us to shift. But healing begins by turning inward. By looking at our patterns, our beliefs, and how we are relating to what is happeni...

Support the Recover Your Soul Podcast and community with a monthly donation ranging from $3 to $10 each month. Thank you for your support!!!!!!!!!!!!! For this episode, I want to talk about the two paths that are available to us to walk in our life at any moment, we may think that we can stand still, but really we know there is no standing still, there is always movement, one direction or the othe...

In this episode, I reflect on a teaching from Al-Anon about “The Part We Play” in the family disease of alcoholism, and how these insights connect with the Recover Your Soul process. If you have been affected by addiction, codependency, or challenging relationship patterns, this conversation offers a compassionate and empowering perspective. Research shows that nearly half of the population is imp...

Support the Recover Your Soul Podcast and community with a monthly donation ranging from $3 to $10 each month. Thank you for your support!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was a post in the Recover Your Soul Community Facebook  group that stood out to me because it was a huge part of my pain from the past and what I used to ruminate over and I wanted to share my process of healing around it. The post read "...

Support the Recover Your Soul Podcast and community with a monthly donation ranging from $3 to $10 each month. Thank you for your support!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was inspired by a quote from the book Loving Kindness by Sharon Salzburg to use Soul Recovery concepts as steps to learn how to Love Ourselves to Wholeness.  “Love for others without the foundation of self love becomes a loss of boundaries, codepe...

Support the Recover Your Soul Podcast and community with a monthly donation ranging from $3 to $10 each month. Thank you for your support!!!!!!!!!!!!! On February 10th, 2023 I will celebrate 5 years of continuous sobriety from alcohol and the start of my Soul Recovery journey.   I thought drinking was the solution for the pain I had in my heart and it took me a long time to be willing to let it go...

We all have pain, that is part of being human.  What do we do with this suffering and pain?  Do we allow it move through us teaching us what we need to learn? Do we build up defense mechanisms and patterns that keep us from feeling the pain? Why are we holding onto it and protecting it?  Honoring our pain and suffering can feel counter intuitive, however it is a path that can lead us to healing an...

For most of my life I was looking to the outside for happiness. I needed and wanted my family, my job, my friends, money, clothes... you name it to make me happy and feel content.  Isn't that the promise in the movies and on TV advertisement?  What I ended up feeling was let down and frustrated, so I tried to do my best to change those things around me thinking that maybe that would make me h...

There is more and more evidence in psychology shining a light on our childhood trauma and the long-term effects it has on our lives as adults.  Being human comes with difficulty and we all learn how to deal with our emotions in different ways, and some of those patterns can block us from having fulfilling relationships and living a full and healthy life.  Soul Recovery is about turning within and...

Support the Recover Your Soul Podcast and community with a monthly donation ranging from $3 to $10 each month. Thank you for your support!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can make ourselves sick emotionally and even physically when we try to 'fix' or 'heal' the people in our lives. This can be if they have an addiction such as alcoholism, or any other behavior that is harming them. When we surr...

Welcome to 2023 and season 4 of the Recover Your Soul podcast! In this episode I am reflecting on having my Son's visit from California for Christmas and how much healing has happened for our family.  Soul Recovery is allowing me to relax and be okay with what is and allow my family to be just who they are.  I had based my happiness on how everyone else was feeling and felt responsible for ke...

I wanted to share one last episode from the Friday Bonus collection from 2022 to give you some spiritual food as we ring in the new year. There is an old Cherokee story about how we all have 2 wolves inside of us- one of love, and the other of fear.  We choose which one we feed.  Soul Recovery can transform our lives, and we are always offered choices as to what direction we will go, and which wol...

It took me a while to realize that there is a difference between giving someone my opinion and when they ask for advice.  Learning when to share either of them has been a spiritual journey all it's own.  My desire it always to help people in some way, however, I did not realize that by always inserting my opinion was sometimes causing people harm and not being helpful at all. Even in my new r...

As we come to the end of 2022 I wanted to offer you the gift of a guided meditation intended to help you through the often stressful holiday season by turning within and connecting to the source of love within you.  Listen to this meditation  for at least 7 days as a gift to yourself as you deepen your relationship to your Higher Power and True Self.  This 10 minute guided meditation is a journey...

When I first met Krystal earlier this year I knew I had found a Spiritual Sister. She was open, honest and had a grounded nature that made me feel immediately comfortable to be myself.  She is also a Spiritual Coach, Teacher and Podcaster sharing her inspiring and incredible experience of finding her way to herself and a spiritual life.   Krystal was raised an 8th generation Mormon and followed al...

Being in a romantic relationship is not straight forward or easy even in the best of situations.  Most relationships will have moments when you ask "Should I stay in my relationship?" Not a simple answer for most of us, even when the relationship looks easy to leave by others in our lives.  This episode is about deeper questions that are around this decision from a spiritual and emotiona...

As we come to the end of season three,  I wanted to share some of the popular episodes from this year that aired for the Apple Podcast subscribers and Patreon Members. This episode is from a line in the 3rd step prayer of AA and Al-Anon  "Release me of the bondage of self."  This has been a powerful part of my Soul Recovery journey as I learn that I have a choice in how I see the world a...

You often hear me say that Soul Recovery is about turning the attention to ourselves. It's that inner part of ourselves that is changing - taking control of the only thing that we have control of which is our thoughts, our emotions, our reactions.  This is an episode about the inner process, about how we can take the deep dive into our own spiritual practice and our own internal healing.  Who...

In the last episode "I am Married to an Alcoholic" I shared that I had thought my husband was with me on the journey of living an alcohol free life and dedicated to recovery.  He had recently come clean to tell me that he had been continuing to experiment with drinking for the last few years.  What do we do when we are in relationship with an addict? The answers are not easy and are uniq...

"We don't drink." I told a friend as we planning to meet up with them in Mexico for vacation. In the first few days my husband shared that for the last few years he has been 'dabbling' with drinking and intended to drink on this vacation. I had thought that we were both sober.  I was so grateful for my own sobriety and my Soul Recovery so that I could process this informat...

Prior to Soul Recovery I used to say "If you are okay, then I can be okay."  This is a foundational belief of being a People Pleaser where you put others needs and preferences over your own.  Many of us may not even realize we are doing this, or how it is causing us internal anxiety and pain.  I have been working on this on my Soul Recovery journey and was taken by surprise on my trip to...

My 'working' vacation in Mexico in October turned out to be a great opportunity for reflection and to practice my Soul Recovery spiritual tools.  I was immediately  caught off guard by my unrealistic expectations of what I had envisioned when planning and thinking about the vacation. I felt irritated and disappointed in the first days and had an opportunity to dig in and do some Soul Rec...

I had asked the Patreon Members for what they wanted to hear more about-  Kellye and Stacey had similar questions about how to stay calm and centered when faced with challenges. "I would love to hear more about  staying calm and turning within, when faced with a challenge. I sometimes get out of control  quickly and start to spiral into panic mode, completely forgetting that I have Higher Pow...