Living in Alignment: How to Trust Yourself When Change Feels UncomfortableLiving in Alignment: How to Trust Yourself When Change Feels Uncomfortable
Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life
Rev. Rachel Harrison reflects on Step 7 of her Recover Your Soul process, sharing how she’s reshaping her podcast to align with her higher self. The conversation centres on trusting inner guidance, releasing fear-based patterns and choosing a calmer, spiritually grounded life in recovery.
30:04•6 Jul 2026
Living in Alignment When Change Feels Scary
Episode Overview
- Living in alignment means matching your thoughts, words and actions to who you’re becoming, rather than to old fears and expectations.
- Trusting inner guidance can feel uncomfortable and even frightening, but it’s often the clearest signal of the next right step.
- Old operating systems like people-pleasing and overwork can block deeper healing and genuine service to yourself and others.
- Positive change in recovery often starts with accepting that you can’t control other people, including partners and adult children.
- Choosing a calmer life is a valid and powerful outcome of spiritual growth, even if it feels strange after years of chaos.
“"Your soul knows the way. And leaving behind the old, pained, wounded selves, strangely enough, feels frightening."”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This episode focuses on what it really looks like to trust yourself when change feels anything but comfortable. Rev. Rachel Harrison talks candidly about Step 7 of her Recover Your Soul process: "Align with a new perception.
Consciously shape your experience by aligning thought, word, and action with your awakened perception and your higher self." Rather than just teaching spiritual principles, she’s determined to live them, especially as she faces a big shift in how she runs her podcasts. Rachel shares her history of recovering from alcoholism, codependency, people-pleasing and control addiction, and how that journey grew into nearly 600 raw and honest episodes.
She jokes about her early "muffled" recordings and the chaos of life in an alcoholic family, including adult children struggling with addiction and a complicated marriage. Through it all, her focus has been on moving from fear and old expectations towards a quieter, more grounded life. You’ll hear her wrestle with the classic people-pleaser fear of "disappointing" others as she chooses a new episode rhythm, balancing her workload with deeper support for the community.
She reminds you that change can feel scary even when it’s right, saying, "Your soul knows the way" and inviting you to consider where your own life might be calling for a new perception. This episode suits anyone in addiction recovery, family members of those who struggle, and anyone who’s simply tired of living from old patterns and wants a spiritually based, practical path to a calmer, more authentic life.
If you’ve ever felt trapped by other people’s expectations, this conversation might be the nudge you need to trust your inner guidance and take the next brave step. Where might your soul be asking you to align your life in a new way?
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