The Recovered Therapist

Send us Fan Mail Portia Nelson wrote this poem when she was doing her inner work around her experience as an adult child of alcoholism.  The 5 chapters can apply to anyone’s life experience. Listen carefully, then ask yourself “Which chapter am I currently in and do I want to move on from here?”. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anony...

Send us Fan Mail I collect inspirational thoughts and memes. I place them around my home on cabinets, mirrors and other places that might catch my eye and once again bring them to mind.  Here are some I like. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or simply write to info@freshouttaplans.com with your topic requests or any bur...

Send us Fan Mail After 22 months of Covid, how weary are you? If the toll Covid has taken is wearing on you emotionally, mentally, physically...what can you do?  We explore some mindsets and some practical actions you can take to cope with the ebbs and flows of this Covid journey. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or sim...

Send us Fan Mail New Year’s Resolutions . SIGH.  What kind of intentions and resolutions are you incorporating into your life? Are you living a purposeful life? Why does one need to anyway? Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or simply write to info@freshouttaplans.com with your topic requests or any burning questions you&...

Send us Fan Mail Getting together with family and the holidays can cause heartburn!  In this episode, Jeanie explains how to be of service, practice love and tolerance and how to practice self care when with family on any occasion.   Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or simply write to info@freshouttaplans.com with your...

Send us Fan Mail How to let go of an incident or grief around an incident.  Use this exercise to help work through something you wish to move on from. A useful way to do this exercise is to write about this incident in the form of a letter to the other person(s). If it involved only yourself, then write a letter to yourself.  Example: Dear _____ When I was 15 years old…What happened…I felt…I did.....

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever thought you were finished working on an issue but out of the blue it rears its ugly head again?  Yes, most of us have.  In this episode, Jeanie discusses how to get back on a path of peace and joy when blindsided by something unexpectedly so that you do less damage to self and others. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thought...

Send us Fan Mail As a child we had intuitive courage, confidence, & curiosity until we felt unsafe and began to doubt ourselves and the world. Personal growth and spiritual transformation assist us in growing into genuine maturity and into our inherent strength. This gift of having the courage to trust yourself allows us to grow into our rightful place where we make decisions from a position o...

Send us Fan Mail It is so easy and convenient to blame outside people, places and things  for “making me” feel, think or behave in a certain way.  If I can blame you, then I do not have to look at my own internal world and/or take responsibility for my part of what is occurring internally or externally.  But, if you want to know what is going on internally,  look at what is happening outside of yo...

Send us Fan Mail One of the most basic, simple and most useful techniques I ever learned when I felt disconnected was to do a self check called H.A.L.T.  This episode explains this self check, what the acronym means and how to use it as a grounding self care practice. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or simply write to...

Send us Fan Mail What drags you out of the present and into expectations of the future or regrets of the past? In what ways do your judgments get tangled up with your expectations? How can you get through the holidays without expectations causing sadness, anger or disappointments? In this episode, Jeanie makes suggestions as to how to avoid allowing expectations to ruin your holidays. Support the...

Send us Fan Mail The two common mistakes parents make are also the two behaviors that are our assignments as parents. When to do them and when not to engage in those behaviors depends on timing.  Listen up to see how often you are using these behaviors and whether they are useful or not. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form...

Send us Fan Mail Every Generation swears they are going to do a better job than the previous one.  Children swear they will do something or not do something like their parents.  This episode discusses leaving impressions and legacies on children. It then suggests what parents can do about those wounds passed down to their children. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to s...

Send us Fan Mail This episode reviews characteristics of healthy families, which means families that operated efficiently most of the time.  Then we look at contrasting characteristics of families disturbed by addiction/alcoholism.  Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or simply write to info@freshouttaplans.com with your t...

Send us Fan Mail Growing up in a home affected by parental drinking can cause gaps in children learning basic “how to” skills.  This episode addresses some of the responses to those gaps that show-up in adulthood but they are rooted in childhood.  Recovery is possible. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or simply write to...

Send us Fan Mail When you get hit with good or bad news where do you react first?  Does your mind race? Do you feel overwhelmed? Do you find yourself moving?  Are you a thinker, feeler or action oriented person initially?  Then what is your second response?  In this episode, various reactions are explored.  How can your responses get you in trouble and what would be personal growth for you? Suppor...

Send us Fan Mail The old tale of Pandora was about how her curiosity caused her to open a box and in doing so unleashing the troubles onto the world...YAWN. Just another story of how women cause all the trouble in the world. SIGH. This episode reframes that old tale to share the Pandora’s Gift, card 45 in Alana Fairchild's Oracle Deck, Sacred Rebels. Support the show We're eager to hear...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel powerless?  Does the principle of scarcity operate in your head? Do you ever feel apart from others? Have you ever felt like a plateau in your life would last forever? This episode, Jeanies shares her favorite affirmations, mantras and prayers for these times. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymou...

Send us Fan Mail When there is something happening in a child’s life and we want to protect them, our adult tendency is to smooth things over as quickly as possible, minimize things, and in essence, lie to them.  Perhaps someone is drunk and sleeping it off on the couch, yet we might say "Oh, they are tired and sleeping late.”   What we are telling the kid is, “I will determine your reality s...

Send us Fan Mail Say what? The word “denial” is not usually thought of as a healing word, but in this podcast Jeanie explains how denying the appearance of disease or negativity should precede positive words so outcomes follow.  To say “I deny the appearance of disease”, then follow it with a phrase such as, “My body is strong and healthy" can have powerful results. Support the show We'r...

Send us Fan Mail Our minds are very powerful and using the mind to out-picture a positive outcome can deliver amazing results. Jeanie shares how she used this power when she was diagnosed with cancer and a visualization practice to cleanse every cell in the body. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or simply write to info@...

Send us Fan Mail Words are very powerful. They have the energy to create your experiences.  When you are discouraged, practice using the  secret law of healing . and the powerful words, “I AM” .  In this episode, Jeanie explains how powerful the words spoken after "I AM” are and gives  examples on how to drive out negativity and promote healing. Support the show We're eager to hear from...

Send us Fan Mail There is an urging inside each of us to do, be, say, sing, dance or whatever…but we push it aside for a number of reasons. In this podcast, Jeanie discusses 4 creative people and the messages their lives pass on to us. It is as if, once again, we are being reminded not to die with the music still in us, and instead listen to that inner muse calling us to step out and act on that h...

Send us Fan Mail We have so many facets to ourselves as humans. At times, I think we construct separate compartments in which to store our thinking, feeling and behaving. Separate compartments provide us with the delusion that we can insure safety, if only one operates at a time.  Otherwise, if all three operated at once we might be overwhelmed. A 2 minute poem and a 2 minute story in this podcast...

Send us Fan Mail Are you a "Yeah, but" person? Do you hear yourself say, “Yeah, But” often? In this podcast we look at how this phrase or view of life can keep you stuck and be a negative in you life and how it can be a positive for you and perhaps all others too. Support the show We're eager to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts through our anonymous form or simply wri...