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

If you're a parent, you probably know this feeling.
No matter how old our children are, we never stop wanting to protect them. We want to guide them, encourage them, and help them avoid some of the heartache we experienced ourselves.
I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
As my own boys have grown into adulthood, I've realized that one of the greatest invitations of this stage of parenting isn't learning how to love them more. It's learning how to trust their journey while continuing to love them deeply.
For a long time, I believed that if one of my children was struggling, it was my job to figure out how to make it better. I thought worrying meant I was being a good mom. I thought helping meant offering advice, solving problems, and trying to keep them from making mistakes or being uncomfortable.
But my own healing has gently shown me something different.
What if our adult children aren't ours to fix, change or even to tell them what to do?
What if they're here to have their own unique human experience, learning through both their joys and their challenges on their soul journey?
What if loving them doesn't mean keeping them from discomfort, but trusting that even the difficult parts of their journey have purpose too. That doesn't mean we stop caring. It doesn't mean we stop loving or even supporting in a healthy way.
It simply means we begin releasing the belief that their happiness determines our own.
This conversation isn't about becoming a perfect parent. I certainly haven't been one. It's about exploring another way of seeing.
One that has brought so much more peace into my own heart.
If you've been lying awake worrying about your adult children, wishing you could make different choices for them, or wondering how to love them without losing yourself, I hope you'll find something in this conversation that may shift how you are seeing the situation and the people in your life- and in the end you find a little peace. 
In This Episode
Why worrying can quietly become another form of trying to control
Seeing your adult children through love instead of fear
How our own discomfort often fuels our desire to fix someone else's life
Why acceptance becomes a path to peace
Trusting your adult children's soul journey while continuing to love them deeply with healthy detachment
Releasing the belief that someone else's happiness determines your own
Returning your attention to your own healing and spiritual awakening
A Few Questions to Sit With
Where am I carrying responsibility that isn't mine?
What fears come up when I imagine letting go of control?
Can I love someone deeply without trying to change them?
What might become possible if I trusted both my journey and theirs?
Continue Your Soul Recovery Journey
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Begin your Recover Your Soul journey by exploring the beliefs, patterns, and stories that may no longer serve you, reconnecting with your Higher Power, and remembering your wholeness.
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FREE Support Group on Zoom 6-7PM MT on the 1st Monday of the Month
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 1:1 Spiritual Coaching with Rev Rachel TRYASESSION for 40% off 1st session
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Have you ever noticed that it's easier to give love than to receive it?
As recovering people pleasers and codependents, many of us learned to care for everyone else first. We became experts at giving our time, our energy, our love, and our attention, but when it comes to receiving those same gifts, we often hesitate.
Why?
In this episode, I share a very personal story about buying a new car and how something that seemed so ordinary uncovered a much deeper invitation to healing. What surfaced wasn't really about the car at all. It was about an old belief that had quietly followed me through much of my life—that other people deserved more than I did.
As I became curious about those feelings, I realized that learning to receive has been one of the greatest spiritual lessons of my own Soul Recovery journey.
Healing isn't about getting more.
It's about releasing the beliefs, patterns, and stories that tell us we aren't enough.
When we begin to receive the same love, compassion, and kindness that we so freely offer everyone else, we open ourselves to a life rooted in abundance instead of lack, trust instead of fear, and wholeness instead of striving.
If you've ever struggled to believe you deserve love, support, joy, or simply something beautiful for yourself, I hope this conversation reminds you that you have never needed to earn your worth.
You already are enough.
A New Weekly Rhythm
Beginning July 2026, you'll receive a new episode every Monday between the 2 Recover Your Soul Podcasts.
One week you'll hear a full Recover Your Soul Podcast episode, and the next week you'll receive a Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast, where I share spiritual tools, practices, guided meditations, and inspiring interviews to support you on your healing journey.
Thank you for being part of this beautiful community. Whether you're just beginning your healing journey or you've been walking this path with me for years, I'm honored that we're recovering our souls together.
Until next time… Namaste. 💜
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The Recovery Your Soul Podcast courses and content is for educational purposes only and is not affiliated with or representative of any organization, recovery group, or religion. And reflect the personal experience and opinions of Rev Rachel Harrison and her guests. RYS claims no responsibility, any person or entity for any loss, liability, damage caused or alleged to be caused, direct or indirectly by the use application or interpretation of the information presented within. 
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FREE Mini Recover Your Soul 9-Step Workbook
FREE Support Group on Zoom 6-7PM MT on the 1st Monday of the Month
Self Study collective &  Soul Circles to walk the Recover Your Soul Steps in Community
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 1:1 Spiritual Coaching with Rev Rachel TRYASESSION for 40% off 1st session
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A New Rhythm for Recover Your Soul
After over six years of sharing two new podcast episodes every week, Recover Your Soul is beginning a new weekly rhythm.
Going forward, you'll still receive a new Recover Your Soul episode every Monday—alternating each week between the main Recover Your Soul Podcast and the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast.
Here's how it works:
🦋 Main Recover Your Soul Podcast
Available free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, and all major podcast platforms including video on YouTube and the Recover Your Soul website
🧡 Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast
A new episode every other Monday for Apple Podcast Subscribers and Patreon members. You can also become a FREE Patreon member to enjoy each new Bonus episode during its first weeks after release before it moves into the subscriber library.
With more than 600 episodes available, there is a wealth of support waiting for you. If you're navigating a particular challenge, try using the search feature in your podcast app or on Patreon. Search words like:
• Codependency
• People Pleasing
• Letting Go
• Boundaries
• Anxiety
• Sobriety
• Addiction
• Adult Children
• Higher Power
• Spiritual Awakening
• Relationships
• Forgiveness
• Detachment
• Self-Love
• Control
Chances are you'll discover conversations, meditations, interviews, and teachings created for exactly what you're experiencing today.
If you're ever unsure where to find the latest episode or want to learn more about all of the Recover Your Soul offerings, visit RecoverYourSoul.net.
Thank you for being part of this beautiful community and for walking this healing and awakening journey with me.
Together we can do the work that will Recover Your Soul.
With love,
Rev Rachel Harrison

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The Recovery Your Soul Podcast courses and content is for educational purposes only and is not affiliated with or representative of any organization, recovery group, or religion. And reflect the personal experience and opinions of Rev Rachel Harrison and her guests. RYS claims no responsibility, any person or entity for any loss, liability, damage caused or alleged to be caused, direct or indirectly by the use application or interpretation of the information presented within. 
Support the show
FREE Mini Recover Your Soul 9-Step Workbook
FREE Support Group on Zoom 6-7PM MT on the 1st Monday of the Month
Self Study collective &  Soul Circles to walk the Recover Your Soul Steps in Community
Get the Book Recover Your Soul, Rev. Rachel’s spiritual memoir 
 1:1 Spiritual Coaching with Rev Rachel TRYASESSION for 40% off 1st session
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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 thoughts, words, and actions with the person you are becoming instead of the fears, expectations, and old patterns you've carried for so long.
As we heal, there comes a time when we realize that the old ways of doing things no longer fit who we are becoming. Making a different choice can bring up fear, uncertainty, and even the worry of disappointing others. But healing invites us to trust ourselves, listen to our inner guidance, and take the next right step—even when it feels uncomfortable.
I also share an exciting new chapter for the Recover Your Soul podcasts.
Beginning now, you'll receive a new Recover Your Soul episode every Monday, alternating between the main Recover Your Soul Podcast and the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast. This new rhythm will allow me to be even more present with our community through coaching, the 9-Step Self Study Collective, retreats, and the many ways we continue to walk this healing journey together.
The next Main Recover Your Soul Podcast will be released on July 20.
In the meantime, I hope you'll lean on the incredible library we've created together. Between the two podcasts, there are nearly 600 episodes covering everything from codependency, boundaries, anxiety, depression, adult children, addiction, forgiveness, people pleasing, grief, and spiritual awakening. Use the search bar on your favorite podcast app or at recoveryoursoul.net and let the library meet you exactly where you are. My hope is that you'll always find an episode that reminds you that you're not alone.
If you'd like to continue the journey between Main Podcast episodes, the Recover Your Soul Bonus Podcast is released every other Monday and includes deeper conversations, guided meditations, spiritual book studies, reflections on Al-Anon through the lens of the Recover Your Soul process, inspiring interviews, and our new Recover Your Soul Practices series—grounded spiritual tools and practices for everyday life.
You can listen to the Bonus Podcast every other Monday:

 ✨ On Apple Podcasts with a subscription for $4.99/month
✨ On Patreon as a Free Member, where new episodes are available for two weeks, or as a supporting member at $5, $15, or $25/month, with full access to the complete Bonus Podcast library and additional community offerings.
Thank you for being part of this community. Whether you've been listening since 2020 or you've just found the podcast, I am so grateful you're here. Thank you for trusting me to walk beside you. It is one of the greatest honors of my life to share this journey with you as we continue remembering our wholeness, choosing love over fear, and creating lives of greater peace, freedom, and joy.
Together, we can do the work that will Recover Your Soul.
Rev Rachel 🧡
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The Recovery Your Soul Podcast courses and content is for educational purposes only and is not affiliated with or representative of any organization, recovery group, or religion. And reflect the personal experience and opinions of Rev Rachel Harrison and her guests. RYS claims no responsibility, any person or entity for any loss, liability, damage caused or alleged to be caused, direct or indirectly by the use application or interpretation of the information presented within. 
Support the show
FREE Mini Recover Your Soul 9-Step Workbook
FREE Support Group on Zoom 6-7PM MT on the 1st Monday of the Month
Self Study collective &  Soul Circles to walk the Recover Your Soul Steps in Community
Get the Book Recover Your Soul, Rev. Rachel’s spiritual memoir 
 1:1 Spiritual Coaching with Rev Rachel TRYASESSION for 40% off 1st session
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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 many of the conversations we've been having lately about authenticity, healthy boundaries, self-awareness, and choosing peace over old protective patterns.
One of the greatest gifts of healing is learning to be authentic. To be vulnerable. To speak our truth.
But authenticity doesn't mean sharing everything with everyone.
There is a profound difference between processing and sharing, and understanding that difference can transform our relationships, our healing, and the way we connect with others.
In this deeply personal episode, I share an experience where I found myself processing a painful story in a space that wasn't meant to hold that level of healing work. What felt embarrassing and uncomfortable at the time became a powerful gift on my own Soul Recovery journey.
I realized that sometimes our deepest healing doesn't happen by telling our story over and over. Sometimes it happens by finding the right container to process it, allowing ourselves to move through it with compassion, fully release it, and then sharing the wisdom that remains.
Healthy boundaries aren't only about saying "no."
They're also about honoring ourselves enough to know what belongs in a safe healing space and what belongs in everyday conversation.
As we recover our souls, we begin to recognize that authenticity and discernment can exist together. We don't have to choose between being real and protecting our peace. We can honor both.
In This Episode:
💜 The important difference between processing and sharing
💜 Why vulnerability needs healthy boundaries
💜 How to recognize when you're seeking connection versus seeking relief
💜 A personal story about receiving difficult feedback with compassion instead of shame
💜 The role of safe containers in emotional and spiritual healing
💜 Why old stories sometimes keep us stuck instead of helping us heal
💜 Learning to witness your reactions instead of becoming them
💜 How authenticity deepens when we release the need to explain or justify ourselves
💜 Healing people-pleasing and learning to trust your own inner wisdom
💜 Responding from your wholeness instead of your woundedness
Resources for Your Soul Recovery Journey
🎁 Free Gift: Recover Your Soul™ 9-Step Workbook
Download your FREE workbook and begin releasing old patterns, reconnecting with your Higher Power, and remembering your wholeness.
Until next time, namaste. 💜 Rev Rachel

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The Recovery Your Soul Podcast courses and content is for educational purposes only and is not affiliated with or representative of any organization, recovery group, or religion. And reflect the personal experience and opinions of Rev Rachel Harrison and her guests. RYS claims no responsibility, any person or entity for any loss, liability, damage caused or alleged to be caused, direct or indirectly by the use application or interpretation of the information presented within. 
Support the show
FREE Mini Recover Your Soul 9-Step Workbook
FREE Support Group on Zoom 6-7PM MT on the 1st Monday of the Month
Self Study collective &  Soul Circles to walk the Recover Your Soul Steps in Community
Get the Book Recover Your Soul, Rev. Rachel’s spiritual memoir 
 1:1 Spiritual Coaching with Rev Rachel TRYASESSION for 40% off 1st session
 Follow on Social Media
RYS Bonus Podcast  Patreon Member or subscribing on Apple Podcasts for corresponding episodes. Free Patreon Members get access to new episodes first few weeks.
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