Choosing to Be Spiritually Awake: Releasing Control, Changing Your Perception, and Finding PeaceChoosing to Be Spiritually Awake: Releasing Control, Changing Your Perception, and Finding Peace
Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life
Rev. Rachel Harrison shares a family crisis story to illustrate her nine-step Recover Your Soul process and what it means to be spiritually awake. The episode focuses on acceptance, releasing control, and changing perception as practical tools for recovery and inner peace.
30:33•31 Aug 2026
Choosing Awakening Over Control: Rachel Harrison on Acceptance and Inner Peace
Episode Overview
- Being spiritually awake does not remove problems but changes how you experience them.
- Recognising your own suffering and feelings is the first step to shifting old patterns.
- Letting go of control involves accepting powerlessness over other people and events.
- Updating your beliefs (such as needing to protect loved ones from all harm) can ease codependency and guilt.
- Choosing your perception and practising acceptance can lead to more peace and presence in daily life.
“Acceptance is the path to peace.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol and then keep growing long after the drinking stops? This episode centres on that ongoing spiritual shift, as Rev. Rachel Harrison talks about "being spiritually awake" in everyday, messy life. Rather than promising a drama-free existence, Rachel is clear that "life is still going to be lifey".
She shares a recent scare involving her son’s car accident and uses it to walk through her nine-step Recover Your Soul process, showing how spiritual tools can keep you grounded instead of spiralling into panic, blame, or over-helping. If you’ve ever felt responsible for shielding your grown kids or loved ones from every hardship, you’ll relate to her honest admission that she still catches herself thinking "it is my job to keep my children from any harm".
The episode breaks down how to recognise your own suffering, let go of control, and shift old beliefs that keep you stuck in people-pleasing and codependency. Rachel talks about choosing your perception, detaching with love, and separating your energy from someone else’s emotions, especially if you’re an empath who soaks up other people’s pain. There’s plenty here for anyone recovering from addiction, control, or just chronic overthinking.
Rachel’s style is warm, practical and slightly cheeky at times, reminding you that perfection isn’t the goal: "The only thing that's perfect is that you show up in your life for who you are in that moment." Along the way, she touches on her retreat work, spiritual practices, and the idea that acceptance and present-moment awareness can bring far more peace than trying to sprinkle "magic fairy dust" over life’s problems.
If you’re curious about using spiritual principles to change your inner experience—rather than trying to fix everyone else—this episode might be exactly the reset you need. How could your day look different if you treated acceptance as your path to peace?
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