Rachel Abbassi - Recovery Daily Podcast
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Recovery Daily Podcast Host, Mental Health Advocate, Communications Specialist
I’ve had to feel my way into humility. My character defects felt better than humility. Humility lives in the space between reaction and response. As I release what no longer serves me, I’m becoming someone new.
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Quiet Strength: Trading My Armor for Humility
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July 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I’ve had to feel my way into humility. My character defects felt better than humility. Humility lives in the space between reaction and response. As I release what no longer serves me, I’m becoming someone new.
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#Humility
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#Humility
The universe’s timing is beautiful. Yesterday I was yanked into a flashback standing in front of a stockpile of endless beer. Fast forward to this morning’s meetings about remembering our last drunk and Step 1.
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Romanticizing the Drink: Grief Disguised As Craving
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July 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The universe’s timing is beautiful. Yesterday I was yanked into a flashback standing in front of a stockpile of endless beer. Fast forward to this morning’s meetings about remembering our last drunk and Step 1.
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#mentalhealth
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#mentalhealth
Forgiveness is not a gift to the person that you're forgiving, it is a gift to yourself. Anger is like holding on to a hot coal hoping the other person gets burned. Forgiveness allows me to drop the hot coal and seek serenity.
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Drop the Hot Coal: Trading Grudges for Serenity
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July 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Forgiveness is not a gift to the person that you're forgiving, it is a gift to yourself. Anger is like holding on to a hot coal hoping the other person gets burned. Forgiveness allows me to drop the hot coal and seek serenity.
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The 12 steps are all about remaining open to change. I heard in early sobriety that the only thing I had to change was everything. So, every day I show up to the starting line with willingness again and again.
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#twelvesteps
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Entirely Ready: Standing at the Starting Line of Change
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July 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The 12 steps are all about remaining open to change. I heard in early sobriety that the only thing I had to change was everything. So, every day I show up to the starting line with willingness again and again.
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#twelvesteps
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This morning, I woke up feeling spiritually flat, like I had no direction. How can I be bored when there’s such a beautiful and fascinating world around me? Life can make extraordinary things ordinary when struggles shift our perspective.
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#connection
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Faith and Connection: When You Don’t Know What To Do
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July 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This morning, I woke up feeling spiritually flat, like I had no direction. How can I be bored when there’s such a beautiful and fascinating world around me? Life can make extraordinary things ordinary when struggles shift our perspective.
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In today’s episode, I shared how recognizing my early warning signs helps prevent crashing through a threshold that's hard to bounce back from. If I stay tuned in, I can make choices that protect my well-being instead of push past my limits.
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#fatigue
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Zoned Out, Tuned In: Listening to My Body
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July 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
In today’s episode, I shared how recognizing my early warning signs helps prevent crashing through a threshold that's hard to bounce back from. If I stay tuned in, I can make choices that protect my well-being instead of push past my limits.
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#fatigue
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Sobriety and support meetings can feel like a chore and repetitive when our lives start to normalize. Showing up becomes less about receiving and more about being a steady presence for someone else, just like others were for us in the beginning.
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We Program: When Meetings Feels Like a Chore
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July 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Sobriety and support meetings can feel like a chore and repetitive when our lives start to normalize. Showing up becomes less about receiving and more about being a steady presence for someone else, just like others were for us in the beginning.
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#recovery
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You know that restless, irritable, discontent feeling that makes everything feel like “too much and not enough” all at once?These moments of discontent can be teachers, gently pointing us toward a new fulfilling direction.
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Restless, Irritable, Discontent: The Spiritual Nudge Behind Restlessness
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July 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
You know that restless, irritable, discontent feeling that makes everything feel like “too much and not enough” all at once?These moments of discontent can be teachers, gently pointing us toward a new fulfilling direction.
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#mentalhealth
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I carried a victim mentality, thinking everything was happening TO me, and I had no choices. Each small choice rewrites my story from a powerless victim to a person participating in recovery with grace, gratitude, and many many gifts.
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#victimmindset
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Escaping Victim Mentality: From Finger Pointing to Perseverance
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July 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I carried a victim mentality, thinking everything was happening TO me, and I had no choices. Each small choice rewrites my story from a powerless victim to a person participating in recovery with grace, gratitude, and many many gifts.
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#victimmindset
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#victimmindset
“Easy Does It” is easier said than done. When I’m walking, I remind myself to relax my shoulders, breathe, slow down, you’re not in a race. Where's that line is between doing the next right thing and just busying myself to avoid stillness.
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Easy Does It The Line Between Action and Avoidance SD 480p
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July 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“Easy Does It” is easier said than done. When I’m walking, I remind myself to relax my shoulders, breathe, slow down, you’re not in a race. Where's that line is between doing the next right thing and just busying myself to avoid stillness.
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#easydoesit
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Humility seemed like shrinking myself, but really it was getting honest with myself. Its seeing myself without puffing up or tearing down. Instead of lowering the bar, I’m laying down the burden of needing to leap over it flawlessly.
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The Truth About Humility: How Ego Slithers In
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July 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Humility seemed like shrinking myself, but really it was getting honest with myself. Its seeing myself without puffing up or tearing down. Instead of lowering the bar, I’m laying down the burden of needing to leap over it flawlessly.
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#humility
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I believe in love even though I can’t see it or measure it. I feel it. There’s no sense for that feeling. Faith is something I also feel the impact of. Like love, it’s real and immeasurable, but I can feel it how it changes me and inspires me.
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Unseen Yet Undeniable: Willingness To Believe In What I Feel
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June 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I believe in love even though I can’t see it or measure it. I feel it. There’s no sense for that feeling. Faith is something I also feel the impact of. Like love, it’s real and immeasurable, but I can feel it how it changes me and inspires me.
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Our inner dialogue can be shaped by the voices around us, especially the critical ones. Today I noticed that what I feed myself is what I’ll come to believe. I feed myself the gentle truth of who I am, worthy of compassion.
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#feedyourfaith
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Nourish Your Mind and Spirit: We Become What We Feed Ourselves
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June 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Our inner dialogue can be shaped by the voices around us, especially the critical ones. Today I noticed that what I feed myself is what I’ll come to believe. I feed myself the gentle truth of who I am, worthy of compassion.
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#feedyourfaith
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Where does fierce determination come from? I always thought those people who drive themselves to triumph each day have unbelievable will power. But they must depend on something inexhaustible: faith or desperation.
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Fierce Determination: Fueled by Faith or Desperation
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June 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Where does fierce determination come from? I always thought those people who drive themselves to triumph each day have unbelievable will power. But they must depend on something inexhaustible: faith or desperation.
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I lost my voice during my stroke and regained it thanks to clot-busting medication. I’ve felt this deep responsibility to use my voice, but not just with my podcast. Creativity became another frequency of my voice, one that speaks of resilience.
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#arttherapy
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Recovery Upcycling on Etsy: Another Frequency of My Voice
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June 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I lost my voice during my stroke and regained it thanks to clot-busting medication. I’ve felt this deep responsibility to use my voice, but not just with my podcast. Creativity became another frequency of my voice, one that speaks of resilience.
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#arttherapy
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#arttherapy
Timing is everything, even in recovery. I’ve spent years in crisis mode, responding immediately, and maximizing productivity. But that urgency clashes with my healing. I’m learning to pause in stroke recovery, just like I do in sobriety.
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Recovery Daily POOLcast: Timing is Everything
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June 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Timing is everything, even in recovery. I’ve spent years in crisis mode, responding immediately, and maximizing productivity. But that urgency clashes with my healing. I’m learning to pause in stroke recovery, just like I do in sobriety.
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#timingiseverything
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Summer always gives me this feeling of freedom, like a whole season of celebration. But with that comes memories of drinking. Living sober means letting myself be in the moment without needing to alter the inside of me.
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Over Elation and Seasonal Triggers: Staying Sober Through the Highs
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June 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Summer always gives me this feeling of freedom, like a whole season of celebration. But with that comes memories of drinking. Living sober means letting myself be in the moment without needing to alter the inside of me.
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#livingsober
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There’s a dangerous illusion that precedes a relapse. It’s justification and deceptive confidence when we mistake abstinence for sobriety. Showing up to sobriety meetings maintain my spiritual condition one day at a time.
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#relapse
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The Relapse Before the Relapse: Why I Go To Meetings
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June 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There’s a dangerous illusion that precedes a relapse. It’s justification and deceptive confidence when we mistake abstinence for sobriety. Showing up to sobriety meetings maintain my spiritual condition one day at a time.
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#relapse
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Okay, so I’ve been reading this book called Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe, and I decided I’m just going to try to believe in it. And let me tell you, what happened over the next few days was unexpected.
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Signs or Coincidences: You Decide
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June 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Okay, so I’ve been reading this book called Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe, and I decided I’m just going to try to believe in it. And let me tell you, what happened over the next few days was unexpected.
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I’m learning that I won’t ever have all the answers to my fears. So, I need to find another way. And for me, that way is faith and spirituality. This willingness is what’s giving me peace finally.
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Fear and Faith: Willingness Is Giving Me Peace
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June 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I’m learning that I won’t ever have all the answers to my fears. So, I need to find another way. And for me, that way is faith and spirituality. This willingness is what’s giving me peace finally.
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#faithoverfear
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Some days I feel awakened to another level of awareness about the world around me, even though my head still hurts. Today, I felt strong despite the headache. Recovery teaches me that I can be relatively happy in this new normal.
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Furnishing My Spiritual Home: Awakening Is A Lifelong Journey
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June 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Some days I feel awakened to another level of awareness about the world around me, even though my head still hurts. Today, I felt strong despite the headache. Recovery teaches me that I can be relatively happy in this new normal.
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#stroke
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Between 7:18 a.m. and 10:18 a.m., my morning unfolded with a string of serendipitous moments that confirmed I’m exactly where I’m meant to be. If I choose to believe, life makes perfect sense and I’m not fearful.
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A Morning of Serendipity: Choosing to Notice
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June 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Between 7:18 a.m. and 10:18 a.m., my morning unfolded with a string of serendipitous moments that confirmed I’m exactly where I’m meant to be. If I choose to believe, life makes perfect sense and I’m not fearful.
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#serendipity
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I couldn’t not drink without changing everything about me. I needed a program of recovery that encourages emotional sobriety.
Emotional sobriety unfolds across the Twelve Steps as a series of micro decisions and actions.
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Emotional sobriety unfolds across the Twelve Steps as a series of micro decisions and actions.
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Emotional Sobriety: Living the Steps
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June 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I couldn’t not drink without changing everything about me. I needed a program of recovery that encourages emotional sobriety.
Emotional sobriety unfolds across the Twelve Steps as a series of micro decisions and actions.
Listen and subscribe:
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#emotionalsobriety
Emotional sobriety unfolds across the Twelve Steps as a series of micro decisions and actions.
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#emotionalsobriety
Each adversity feels like another software update (Rachel 3.1, 3.2, 3.3) unfolding a new version of me. Spiritual awakening happens when I admit I’m human, acknowledge discomfort, and lean into gratitude in the middle of the storm.
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Version Updates: Overriding Unmotivated Days
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June 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Each adversity feels like another software update (Rachel 3.1, 3.2, 3.3) unfolding a new version of me. Spiritual awakening happens when I admit I’m human, acknowledge discomfort, and lean into gratitude in the middle of the storm.
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I'm remembering my not-so-long-ago discomfort and failures that led to an incredible life’s story. The discomfort and mistakes in my life led to a beautiful outcome of those lessons. These are tools I use when the future looks uncertain.
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#adaptability
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Discomfort and Adaptability: Bouncing Off the Gutter Guards
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June 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I'm remembering my not-so-long-ago discomfort and failures that led to an incredible life’s story. The discomfort and mistakes in my life led to a beautiful outcome of those lessons. These are tools I use when the future looks uncertain.
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#adaptability
Listen and subscribe:
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#adaptability