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Recovery Daily Podcast
Hosted by Rachel (Miller) Abbassi · EN
Recovery Daily Podcast is hosted by Rachel (Miller) Abbassi, a recovering alcoholic and stroke survivor. With 9 years of sobriety, Rachel regressed into severe post-stroke chronic daily migraines, vision impairment due to vestibular disorder, and mild vascular neurocognitive disorder. The first episode starts only days after recognizing that she must start her journey of rehabilitation again and pull herself away from a career she loves. She believes that the greatest healing comes from sharing her experience, strength, and hope with others in recovery. Follow the podcast to join the journey!
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I Trust Me: Changing My Relationship With the Past
2d ago00:32:41Tap to summarizeThere are moments from my past that can still make my heart race and trigger shame, fear, or panic. While I can’t change what happened, I can change my relationship with it. Through honest conversations, connection, sponsorship, and practicing the steps, I transform how I respond to my past instead of allowing it to remain toxic.My past is part of my story, but it no longer gets to dictate my actions, my worth, or who I’m becoming. Without those chapters of my life I wouldn’t be exactly where I am today. I’ve rebuilt trust in myself and no longer fear my thoughts as if I must act on all of them. My present is finally louder than my past.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #strokesurvivor #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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Medical Retirement: The Emotional Weight of Forced Change
6d ago00:37:30Tap to summarizeWhen someone asks me, “what do you do?” I respond, “I’m medically retired” instead of simply “retired.” This is because stroke recovery, vestibular disorders, chronic pain, disabilities, and even sobriety happened without my permission. If I don’t convey that, the response is “Congratulations!” There’s an invisible grief when life shifts in a direction you wouldn’t have chosen. It comes with losing independence, certainty, and the version of life you imagined you would have. Forced change creates an exhausting tension between acceptance and denial that increases my suffering when I fight reality instead of adapt to it. I’m learning how to treat emotional wounds with the same care I give physical ones, and build a meaningful life instead of constantly bracing for resistance.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #strokesurvivor #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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Be The Bridge of Hope: From Demoralization to Liberation
1w ago00:24:41Tap to summarizeI never want to forget the depth of defeat, desperation, and demoralization prior to my sobriety. Absolutely the only thing looping in my mind was escaping into a bottle. I lived in that mental space for years, holding my breath, chained to my thoughts, and trying to control something that was uncontrollable. I was reminded this morning that many addicts don’t make it, and that’s why I must keep it fresh in my mind, so I can keep it. I must give it away to keep it. I must share about what it felt like so that even just one person doesn’t have to suffer like me, looking for a solution but fearful of finding one that meant I could no longer drink. Hope first showed up for me as a gift rather than something I found inside me. My sobriety community allowed me to borrow their hope. Today I want to be a hope dealer because the same hope that saved me is meant to be shared so that it saves the next suffering alcoholic.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #strokerecovery #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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Watching Reruns: Get Out Of Your Head
1w ago00:24:35Tap to summarizeHave you ever said something and then spent hours replaying it in your head, wondering if you made any sense or said the wrong thing? In today’s episode, I talk about that exact experience and what it revealed to me about fear. The muffled interference that pulls me out of the present and traps me in a loop of overthinking, judgment, and self-doubt is a trap that I fall into easily.Fear is a filter that my world, blocking my ability to see beauty, practice tolerance, forgive, serve, and feel peace. I talk about the illusion of protection fear creates, and how it can keep us isolated, disconnected, and stuck. Most importantly, I walk through what it looks like to move through fear by acknowledging it, talking about it, and choosing faith despite it. Fear doesn’t get to lead and living fully means getting out of our heads and back into the moment.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #strokerecovery #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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Talk to Someone: The Beginning of Everything
1w ago00:34:18Tap to summarizeIn today’s episode, I share how the “tormenting ghosts of yesterday”, the secrets, shame, and thoughts I kept buried followed me everywhere until I finally said them out loud. I truly believed that if I pushed things down far enough, they would disappear, but instead they built up, creating an isolation that fed my illness.Today I talk about the power of Step 5 and what happened the first time I told someone my truth and heard, “that happened to me too.” That moment changed everything. It showed me I wasn’t unique in my struggles, and that connection begins where honesty starts. Whether it’s sobriety, stroke recovery, or just being human, we were never meant to carry things alone. This episode is about finding the courage to speak, letting the weight lift, and discovering that the very things we hide are the exact things that connect us.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #strokerecovery #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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You Are What You Were: Breaking the Pattern
2w ago00:27:35Tap to summarizeInspired by the concept “What You Are Is Where You Were When” by Dr. Morris Massey, it’s incredible to think that when we react to something or someone in our lives today, we are actually reacting to everything that has shaped us up until that very moment that we react. Our early experiences, environments, and relationships form the beliefs, habits, and emotional responses that we carry into our lives, and ultimately, into recovery.From early feelings of discomfort and anxiety to the patterns that I carried through my alcoholism and then into recovery, I was on conditioned autopilot. Then my sobriety program finally gave me self-awareness. That awareness was introduced when I started practicing the pause. When I stop before I react, I have the opportunity to question old beliefs and behaviors. This gives me the ability to choose differently and break patterns. We are shaped by our past, but we don’t need to be limited by it.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #stroke #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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Just Be: The Peace I Was Missing
2w ago00:30:00Tap to summarizeI used to carry a heavy, constant sadness, feeling like everything was happening to me and believing I was a vicim of misfortune. I spent so much energy trying to manage things outside of my control, while doing very little with what was actually within it. It felt like clenching my fists around nothing, exhausting myself and fixing nothing.I had an epiphany in a conversation one day, that opened the door to a simpler way of living. I began to learn how to just be, staying present without forcing outcomes, observing without needing to fix, and breaking life down into small, manageable steps. Every day I practice letting go of the need to control things I can’t and finding a more peaceful way to move through life one small step at a time.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #stroke #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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Crying for the Moon: But Choosing What’s Within Reach
2w ago00:39:15Tap to summarizeHave you ever wanted something so deeply, and you still had to let it go? “Crying for the moon, but the moon won’t have you” is painful, but it’s not a dead end. There have been an extraordinary number of times in my life when no matter how badly I wanted life to be different, I could not change what was. The death of my high school crush when I was 18, realizing I am an alcoholic, determining I have a permanent disability, and medical retirement are just several devastating seasons of my life.Longing can turn into resistance, and that resistance deepens suffering. There’s a difference between grieving and living in the past. Intentional grieving has helped me process loss without letting it take over my entire day, or my life for that matter, as it used to. It helps me shift my focus from what’s out of reach to what’s right in front of me. Healing happens when I stop reaching for the moon and start noticing what’s still possible today.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #stroke #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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Celebrating a Sober Decade: As Happy As I Allow Myself
2w ago00:34:33Tap to summarizeAt ten years of sobriety, I’m just getting started. I reflected today on how I don’t need to see the whole picture to keep walking forward. In fact, I’m grateful I can’t. It’s the uncertainties that teach me how to let go and trust the process. It’s so hard to see the value and meaning in the hard stuff while you’re living it, but perspective and beauty arrives later. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #stroke #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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It’s Not Okay: But I Am
3w ago00:33:01Tap to summarizeMany of us say without even thinking: “It’s okay.” But it’s actually not. In this episode, I share about complex emotions related to choosing your well-being while also feeling the weight of what you’re missing. Through a deeply personal experience, I walk through the coexistence of gratitude and grief, and the habit many of us have of minimizing our feelings to protect others.I explore how naming our emotions bring order to the chaos between my ears, and why feelings like jealousy, resentment, and guilt are simply human. Today we’re learning to stop saying “it’s okay” when it isn’t, and instead find peace in honesty. The situation may not be okay, but my feelings and I are.Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Rather listen on Apple Podcasts? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recovery-daily-podcast/id1693924779 Visit my Etsy shop, and join my creative journey at Recovery Upcycling. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RecoveryUpcycling#strokerecovery #stroke #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disability #soberlife #recoverypodcast
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