Letting Go of Being Right: How to Take Your Power Back and Choose Inner PeaceLetting Go of Being Right: How to Take Your Power Back and Choose Inner Peace
Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life
Rev. Rachel Harrison talks about releasing the need to be right, especially for recovering codependents and people-pleasers, and how this shift can bring more peace into relationships. She shares personal stories and spiritual tools that focus on turning inward, softening conflict, and standing in a sense of enoughness.
32:04•22 Jun 2026
Letting Go of Being Right and Choosing Inner Peace in Recovery
Episode Overview
- Letting go of being right creates more peace and reduces the urge to fight every disagreement.
- Saying “you might be right” can soften conflict and give both people a sense of being heard.
- Turning the focus inward helps shift from controlling others to understanding personal fears and wounds.
- Recognising self-righteousness as a defence allows space for vulnerability, honesty, and growth.
- Choosing responses from wholeness rather than woundedness supports healthier boundaries and relationships.
“Letting go of being right does not mean that you do not have voice. It means that you don’t waste your time and your voice fighting on hills that aren’t worth fighting for.”
How do people cope with the challenges of staying sober and still keep their relationships intact? This conversation with Rev. Rachel Harrison heads straight into that tension, especially for those who identify as recovering people-pleasers and codependents. The focus is simple but challenging: letting go of the need to be right so you can finally feel at peace.
Rachel shares candid stories from her own life, including a surprisingly emotional reaction to her husband casually saying, “I can’t wait till we get some surf racks on that car and I can take it surfing.” What starts as defensiveness and a “mine, mine, don’t share” moment becomes a lesson in fear, deserving good things, and stepping away from the emotional battlefield.
You’ll hear how her recovery from alcoholism, codependency, and control addiction led her to turn the attention inward: “Letting go of being right does not mean that you do not have voice. It means that you don’t waste your time and your voice fighting on hills that aren’t worth fighting for.” She talks about using phrases like “you might be right” to release control, reduce conflict, and create more safety in long-term relationships.
A big theme running through the episode is standing in your own enoughness. Instead of fighting to fix others, Rachel gently points back to spiritual tools, 12-step wisdom, and her Recover Your Soul process as ways to calm hypervigilance, meet your feelings with grace, and choose boundaries from wholeness rather than woundedness.
If you’re tired of constant arguments, feeling attacked, or endlessly trying to prove your point, this one invites you to ask: is being right worth your peace, or is it time to take your power back in a softer, kinder way?
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