Podcast
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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Poor Me: Never Too Late to Start Your Day Over
2d ago00:25:23Tap to summarize“It’s never too late to start your day over” is a great tool in recovery. I used to think my happiness depended on my circumstances. If things didn't go my way, I sank into self-pity, resentment, and disappointment. What sobriety has taught me is reinforced in stroke recovery.Happiness is an inside job. I get to choose to focus on what I've lost or participate in the life that's still available to me. 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 #strokepodcast #vestibularrecovery #recovery #vestibular #disabilityawareness #soberlifestyle #recoverypodcast
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“I Can Figure This Out Myself”: How To Increase the Frequency of Hope
1w ago00:24:41Tap to summarizeA watercolor artist showed me hundreds of failed paintings behind her success to demonstrate what it means to be self-taught. It can be exhausting to keep hitting brick walls while learning a new skill. It resonated with me because I tried to figure out sobriety by myself, and I repeated the same pattern in stroke recovery. Just as the artist showed hundreds of messy attempts, I experienced years of unnecessary suffering and hopelessness because I was trying to heal alone.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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Living Gratefully: Gratitude Forward, Not Backward
1w ago00:18:03Tap to summarizeWe often think about gratitude backward, looking at what we survived, how we escaped, or what could have lost. Recovery teaches me that gratitude is powerful when it moves us forward. Instead of just appreciating life emotionally, we participate in life differently because of that appreciation.I live gratefully through my creativity, fellowship, helping others, caring for my body, and moving forward even when life is difficult. Sobriety and stroke recovery both teach me that the greatest expression of gratitude is choosing to live with purpose, willingness, and participation in the life I still have.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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Admitting Complete Defeat After Stroke: Willingness To Find Better Days
1w ago00:27:37Tap to summarizeAfter my stroke, I tried to force myself back into my old life. I minimized my symptoms, ignored my limitations, pushed through pain, and believed that recovery was pretending nothing had changed. The same way I once fought against sobriety, I declared war on myself. In this episode, I talk about what it meant to finally admit complete defeat, not as failure, but as acceptance of reality and my inability to control what happened to me.Surrendering the illusion of control became the turning point in both sobriety and stroke recovery. I stopped fighting myself and became willing to rest, ask for help, slow down, and care for my body and brain. Admitting defeat did not mean I was giving up on life. It was quite the opposite. I was finally learning how to live honestly within my invisible illnesses. That’s when I began to heal emotionally.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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Joyful Discoveries In Recovery: Using My Body Instead of Abusing It
1w ago00:44:56Tap to summarizeWhen I got sober, I thought life would never be fun again. Instead, I discovered that alcohol had been stealing my time, creativity, and presence in this life. The joyful discoveries that came after putting down the drink were unexpected. I found that taking action before motivation appears helped me discover joy and creativity.Those same recovery principles became essential after my stroke. Sobriety taught me willingness, acceptance, patience, and how to keep moving forward one day at a time. What started as recovery from alcohol eventually became a blueprint for surviving and adapting to the hardest season of my life. Joyful discoveries often seem to emerge from adversity.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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Growing a Conscience: What’s Your Motivation For That?
2w ago00:31:05Tap to summarizeThis episode is about growing a conscience and learning to ask ourselves: What’s my motivation for that? Inspired by reflections from my recovery, I talk about how addiction, fear, resentment, people-pleasing, and the need for control shaped many of my behaviors as an active alcoholic.Sobriety and emotional recovery have helped me become more self-aware, intentional, and honest about the reasons behind my actions. Today I explore the difference between reacting and responding, how resentments become fossilized when ignored, and why the pause between impulse and behavior can completely change the direction of our lives.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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Untethering Shame From My Past: Using the Steps to Travel Through Life
3w ago00:37:02Tap to summarizeI used the Twelve Steps to travel honestly back through my life, resentments, fears, shame, grief, and painful experiences without getting trapped inside them. Instead of trying to numb the past or erase it, the steps help me reflect on it, learn, make peace with it, and move forward armed with wisdom to live differently.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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The Program That Changed Everything: Learning How to Live
3w ago00:40:02Tap to summarizeNothing has impacted my life more than getting sober. Alcohol helped me cope with my anxiety, grief, fear, and excessive sensitivity. I thought my problems were other people, circumstances, trauma, and work, and the fact that I was just broken. I didn’t understand that drinking was teaching me how to escape rather than learning how to live. I didn’t know there was another way. The 12 steps changed my entire way of thinking, feeling, grieving, connecting, and responding to life. My sobriety program is the foundation that helps me emotionally survive stroke and vestibular disability. It teaches me how to live inside discomfort without escaping it, trust myself , and walk through painful seasons without losing hope.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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Rebuilding Identity: My Relationship With Myself
3w ago00:44:45Tap to summarizeAfter years of resisting the idea that my identity changed after stroke, I sat down and worked through what rebuilding one’s identity means. It’s my relationship with myself, how I believe others see me, what I think my value is, and how I respond to the experiences that shape my life. It’s more than just who I am.I can grieve old versions of myself while still recognizing that the same compassionate little girl inside me that has remained. Through becoming a stroke survivor, living with invisible disability, and rebuilding a sense of purpose after losing so much independence, I am learning how to trust, understand, and accept myself again. Recovery communities, emotional sobriety, spirituality, and connection rebuild identity over time by learning how to carry the parts of myself that remain through adversity into the new version of who I am becoming and loving again.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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I Trust Me: Changing My Relationship With the Past
3w 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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