What If You’re Not Crazy? Learning to Trust Your Intuition & Spiritual GuidanceWhat If You’re Not Crazy? Learning to Trust Your Intuition & Spiritual Guidance
Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life
Rev. Rachel Harrison reflects on how sobriety expanded her intuition and sense of spiritual guidance, including higher self, spirit guides and angels. She talks about fear of being seen as "crazy" and offers practical ways to recognise loving inner guidance versus fearful inner chatter.
26:37•12 Oct 2026
Trusting Your Inner Voice: Intuition, Guides and Sobriety with Rev. Rachel Harrison
Episode Overview
- Trusting your intuition can be a key part of recovery, even if it initially feels "crazy" or outside the norm.
- The quiet, steady voice that knows you deserve more can be recognised as your higher self and treated as reliable guidance.
- Fully formed thoughts, images or knowings may indicate input from guides or angels, especially when they carry a loving, clear energy.
- Critical and harsh inner voices are more likely fear and ego than spiritual guidance, and can be gently questioned rather than obeyed.
- Following what genuinely excites and lights you up is presented as a practical way to align with your soul and support healing from addiction and people-pleasing.
“Maybe we're all crazy. But you know what? It feels better over on this side than it did when I was an addict and a codependent and a people pleaser and in a lot of pain.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This conversation follows Rev. Rachel Harrison as she talks about intuition, spirit guides, and the kind of inner guidance that can feel "a little too woo-woo" when you first start paying attention to it. You’ll hear Rachel describe how her recovery from alcoholism, codependency, people-pleasing, and control addiction opened up a rapid spiritual shift over the past six years.
She reflects on a deep fear of being judged as "crazy" and how common that fear is for anyone who steps outside what feels normal, especially in spiritual growth and recovery work. Rachel breaks down different kinds of guidance she experiences, from the quiet, steady voice of her higher self that told her, "You deserve more than this" when she was drinking, to a clearer, more distinct energy she associates with guides and angels.
She shares how automatic writing, meditation, and paying attention to fully formed thoughts or knowings helped her recognise that not every voice in her head is just random chatter. There’s a touching moment where she talks about feeling both deeply loved and simultaneously unworthy of that love, a tension many people in recovery will recognise.
She frames guidance as something anyone can access, not just priests or shamans, and compares it to tuning into spiritual radio stations that are always broadcasting. Along the way, Rachel calls out how critical, mean inner voices are more likely fear and ego than anything divine, and suggests focusing on what lights you up as a way to stay aligned with your soul.
The episode is particularly relatable for empaths, who may have been sensing other people’s feelings and subtle cues for years without realising it was guidance. If you’ve ever wondered whether those quiet inner nudges are madness or a message, this conversation might leave you asking a different question: what if you’re not crazy at all?
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