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The Recovered Therapist — 253 episodes

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DAR Daughters of the American Revolution

2

How Well Do You Really Know Yourself?

3

Am I the Crazy One?

4

2 Funny Stories AGAIN

5

Running Away from God

6

Doing Things Differently

7

Do You Want A New Experience?

8

Oh Great Spirit

9

Are you Becoming Dependent on ChatGPT?

10

Where Is Your Voice?

11

Emptiness

12

Silently Extend Love

13

2026 is Year 1 of a new 9 year cycle.

14

Changes For The New Year

15

Think Inside The Box Again

16

You Weren’t Called To Carry Everything

17

Can I Quit Substances on a Non-Spiritual Basis?

18

How To Trust Yourself Enough To Trust Others

19

Four Years of Therapy in 1 Minute

20

Discovering Subconscious Thinking

21

Planning vs Peace

22

Adult children & Unfinished Projects

23

Responses for Adult Children of Alcoholism

24

Givers and Takers

25

Meditations of the Heart

26

An Example of Letting Go

27

Observing vs. Judging

28

When Tragedy Strikes

29

"I Want What My Addicted Son Had”

30

Are You Looking At The Good?

31

What Is Your Go To Defense Mechanism?

32

Not Being Present = Doing Dumb Things

33

Affirmations to Replace Negativity

34

Readings To Guide you Today

35

A Trick To Move Past Overwhelming Feelings

36

The Gratitude Challenge

37

A Sacred Retreat at Ghost Ranch – October 1–5, 2025

38

The Vicious Cycle of Addicted Thinking

39

What Is Codependency?

40

Not Finishing Things & Asking For Help

41

Adult Children and High Risk Relationships

42

Are You A Thinkaholic?

43

What Is A Soul Retrieval?

44

Ways to Be Closer to God as You Understand

45

I Can Offer My Emptiness

46

Am I an Adult Child?

47

When Love Is Not Enough?

48

Collision of Instincts

49

How to Go from Being Blah to Being Blessed

50

Initiation by the Water Spirits

51

You Do Have Psychic Abilities

52

Los Angeles Wildfires Jan 7-11, 2025

53

Acceptance, Expectations & Serenity

54

A Look at Procrastination

55

Stuff vs Experiences

56

Be Kind To Your Body

57

What Thoughts Are Driving Your Bus?

58

A Gift of Meditation for You

59

Thinking About clutter and Stuff

60

Depression & A Plea for Slowness

61

Here We Go Again — The Holidays

62

The Mountain Poem by Laura Ding-Edwards (2019)

63

Fall Leaves: Gracefilled Trees

64

Pulling Away From Your Family of Origin

65

Let’s Talk About Pot!

66

Gifts From Your Ancestors

67

Stay Stuck or Take Action

68

Claudia Black’s 5 Roles of Adult Children

69

The Avoidant Attachment Style

70

The Anxious Attachment Style

71

The Disorganized (fearful/avoidant) attachment style.

72

Never Stifle A Joyful Child

73

Adult Children and Parental Estrangement

74

You Are Never Old Enough To Lose Your Mother

75

When Your Healing Process Hits A Pothole

76

Your Rightful Place

77

The Twelve Initiations of Love

78

The Stages of Human Development

79

Inspiration & Affirmations of Florence Shinn

80

Reviewing Core Issues Of Adult Children of Alcoholics

81

What? So What? Now What? Core Belief Exercise

82

The Benefits of Laughter

83

Invisible Bullying

84

Don't Limit The Form

85

Exploring Spiritual Growth: Insights on Humanity, Divinity, and Mindfulness

86

Three Tools for Grounding

87

AA Acronyms for Living Life

88

Acronyms Used in Al-Anon

89

The Facts Get in the Way of the Truth

90

Heavenly Happenings April 2024

91

Individual Relationships Within Families

92

What is the Enneagram?

93

Insight, inspiration and Action

94

Setting Boundaries & Effective Communication

95

The Orphan Within

96

Criteria for Substance Use Disorder

97

Addiction: One Cause & One Solution?

98

Untangling Grief: Navigating the Pain of Letting Go

99

How To Choose A Therapist

100

Banish The Inner Critic

101

Two Tools for Self-Discovery

102

Do I Have Divine Power?

103

A New Year

104

Post Christmas Challenge

105

Run, Relaxation & Routine

106

Emmet Fox - The Golden Key

107

Navigating 'The' vs. 'My' and the Power of 'Experiencing' over 'Owning'

108

A Winter Lesson on Hibernation and Letting Go

109

Unlocking the Power of Affirmations

110

The Word “God"

111

Keep Your Heart Open

112

What Is A Shamanic Practitioner?

113

Practice Doing Better

114

The FRESH OUTTA PLANS® 3-Pillar Solution for a Break Up

115

The FRESH OUTTA PLANS® 3-Pillar Solution for Fatigue

116

Diving into the Unconscious: Florence Shinn's 'Scissors of the Mind'

117

Sept 24, 2023 Workshop on the Big Book

118

A Look At Your Relationship with Substances

119

Where Is Your Imagination?

120

What Is Said vs What Is Heard

121

Recipe for a Painful Relationship

122

Human Kindness: Is It Overflowing?

123

Lion’s Gate Portal

124

The Lost Art of Breathing

125

Spiritual Practices for Beginners

126

What Does Being FRESH OUTTA PLANS® Really Mean?

127

Changing Seats on the Titanic

128

Summertime and the living is EASY? You have to be kidding!

129

What choices did I make that led to this painful outcome?

130

Living in the Present

131

Blamers and Victims are Most Annoying

132

Poverty Consciousness

133

Whose Feelings Are You Feeling?

134

Are You Interested Or Committed?

135

Power in the Pause

136

Why is Introspection Valuable?

137

Instincts in Collision

138

Dear Younger Self

139

Dreams: How do I do it?

140

Destiny

141

No Spiritual Follow Thru

142

The Divine Economist

143

Are You A Control Freak?

144

Do You have Resentments?

145

A Recorder

146

I Wanna Talk About Love

147

Action is the Magic Word

148

Working with Archangel Michael

149

There is No Such Thing as Low Self-Esteem

150

Manifesting Miracle

151

Oh Dear. Expectations.

152

Facing a New Year 2023

153

Planting New Year Seeds

154

Avoiding Holiday “Triggers"

155

Everyday Spiritual Practices

156

Appearances

157

Yikes: The Holidays and then New Year's and then...

158

Time and Clutter

159

Self Discovery: In Which Chapter Are you Living?

160

Are You a Fringe-Dweller?

161

Pay Attention

162

Trusting Your Supply

163

Trusting the Invisible

164

Gracefilled Trees

165

Fresh Outta Plans: The Poem

166

The Promise of a Shaman

167

More On Affirmations And Denials

168

Acceptance

169

But It’s Not Fair!

170

The Ugly Tree

171

Questions to Ask Yourself When Feeling Anxiety

172

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse & Others

173

Feeling Anger at an idealized Parent

174

The Month Before Your Birthday

175

Four Pitfalls in Our Thinking

176

Timing

177

Reflecting

178

Turmoil and Chaos

179

Has Our Attention Been Hacked?

180

It Is Not Always About You

181

Do You Have Trouble Meditating?

182

How to Use Oracle Cards Part 2

183

How to Use Oracle Cards Part 1

184

My Conversation With A White Oleander

185

Get Out Into Nature

186

From Invisible to Visible

187

Where Are your Eyeglasses Pointing?

188

Out of Balance

189

Intuition, Mantras and Letting Go

190

What Are Your Spiritual Practices?

191

Trust and Being an ACOA

192

What Are Oracle Cards and how Do I Use Them?

193

Shamanism & 4 Spiritual Illnesses

194

German Shepherd Thinking

195

Living With Uncertainty

196

Are you Acting Like A teenager?

197

Peace & Love: The One Minute Hug

198

Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters by Portia Nelson

199

Inspirational Thoughts

200

Are You Weary of Covid?

201

Intentions and New Year’s Resolutions

202

Family and the Holidays

203

Incident Writing/Grief Work

204

Here It Comes Again

205

Trust Yourself

206

Internal and External Landscapes

207

Using H.A.L.T

208

Holiday Expectations

209

Two Common Mistakes Parents Make

210

Calling All Parents or Parent Wanna Be's

211

Healthy Family Characteristics vs Families Disturbed by Addiction/Alcoholism

212

Under-learning in Adult Children of Alcoholics

213

Head, Heart & Feet

214

Pandora’s Gift

215

My Favorite Affirmations, Mantras & Prayers

216

How To Speak With Children

217

The Healing Power of Denial?

218

The Healing Power of Visualization

219

I Am

220

Never Argue With A Hunch

221

Integration

222

Yeah But

223

We Can Choose Our Own Attitude

224

Are you a doer?

225

Unhappy? Hurt? Three Assessments To See Why.

226

Thoughts, Messages and Conclusions

227

Is Your Side Of The Street Clean?

228

Debates, Judgments and Opinions

229

Are You Hooked on Hope and Longing?

230

Why Do Some People Get Addicted?

231

Adult Children Of Alcoholics Traits Part 2

232

Identification & Adult Children Of Alcoholics Traits

233

Can You Laugh at Yourself?

234

What Kind of "Floaties" Do I Need?

235

Getting to the Heart of Irrational Ideas

236

The Promise Of A Shaman

237

Casting your Pearls Before Swine

238

Stop The War Inside You

239

Affirmations and Denials

240

My Friend Lorna Kelly

241

Balancing Humanity with Divinity

242

The Water Cycle & Your True Essence

243

Grace-Filled Trees

244

Don’t Die With the Music Still In You

245

Rowing Against Wind and Tide

246

The Mystery of Love

247

Advice vs Experience

248

Hell in the Hallway

249

Why Fresh Outta Plans?

250

Body Image

251

What’s In Your Backpack?

252

Feelings! UGH!

253

Why the Name Recovered Therapist?