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The Recovered Therapist — 257 episodes

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For Cancer Sun Signs

2

Alex’s View in 2026

3

Summer Solstice

4

Maximilian’s View 2026

5

DAR Daughters of the American Revolution

6

How Well Do You Really Know Yourself?

7

Am I the Crazy One?

8

2 Funny Stories AGAIN

9

Running Away from God

10

Doing Things Differently

11

Do You Want A New Experience?

12

Oh Great Spirit

13

Are you Becoming Dependent on ChatGPT?

14

Where Is Your Voice?

15

Emptiness

16

Silently Extend Love

17

2026 is Year 1 of a new 9 year cycle.

18

Changes For The New Year

19

Think Inside The Box Again

20

You Weren’t Called To Carry Everything

21

Can I Quit Substances on a Non-Spiritual Basis?

22

How To Trust Yourself Enough To Trust Others

23

Four Years of Therapy in 1 Minute

24

Discovering Subconscious Thinking

25

Planning vs Peace

26

Adult children & Unfinished Projects

27

Responses for Adult Children of Alcoholism

28

Givers and Takers

29

Meditations of the Heart

30

An Example of Letting Go

31

Observing vs. Judging

32

When Tragedy Strikes

33

"I Want What My Addicted Son Had”

34

Are You Looking At The Good?

35

What Is Your Go To Defense Mechanism?

36

Not Being Present = Doing Dumb Things

37

Affirmations to Replace Negativity

38

Readings To Guide you Today

39

A Trick To Move Past Overwhelming Feelings

40

The Gratitude Challenge

41

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

42

The Vicious Cycle of Addicted Thinking

43

What Is Codependency?

44

Not Finishing Things & Asking For Help

45

Adult Children and High Risk Relationships

46

Are You A Thinkaholic?

47

What Is A Soul Retrieval?

48

Ways to Be Closer to God as You Understand

49

I Can Offer My Emptiness

50

Am I an Adult Child?

51

When Love Is Not Enough?

52

Collision of Instincts

53

How to Go from Being Blah to Being Blessed

54

Initiation by the Water Spirits

55

You Do Have Psychic Abilities

56

Los Angeles Wildfires Jan 7-11, 2025

57

Acceptance, Expectations & Serenity

58

A Look at Procrastination

59

Stuff vs Experiences

60

Be Kind To Your Body

61

What Thoughts Are Driving Your Bus?

62

A Gift of Meditation for You

63

Thinking About clutter and Stuff

64

Depression & A Plea for Slowness

65

Here We Go Again — The Holidays

66

The Mountain Poem by Laura Ding-Edwards (2019)

67

Fall Leaves: Gracefilled Trees

68

Pulling Away From Your Family of Origin

69

Let’s Talk About Pot!

70

Gifts From Your Ancestors

71

Stay Stuck or Take Action

72

Claudia Black’s 5 Roles of Adult Children

73

The Avoidant Attachment Style

74

The Anxious Attachment Style

75

The Disorganized (fearful/avoidant) attachment style.

76

Never Stifle A Joyful Child

77

Adult Children and Parental Estrangement

78

You Are Never Old Enough To Lose Your Mother

79

When Your Healing Process Hits A Pothole

80

Your Rightful Place

81

The Twelve Initiations of Love

82

The Stages of Human Development

83

Inspiration & Affirmations of Florence Shinn

84

Reviewing Core Issues Of Adult Children of Alcoholics

85

What? So What? Now What? Core Belief Exercise

86

The Benefits of Laughter

87

Invisible Bullying

88

Don't Limit The Form

89

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

90

Three Tools for Grounding

91

AA Acronyms for Living Life

92

Acronyms Used in Al-Anon

93

The Facts Get in the Way of the Truth

94

Heavenly Happenings April 2024

95

Individual Relationships Within Families

96

What is the Enneagram?

97

Insight, inspiration and Action

98

Setting Boundaries & Effective Communication

99

The Orphan Within

100

Criteria for Substance Use Disorder

101

Addiction: One Cause & One Solution?

102

Untangling Grief: Navigating the Pain of Letting Go

103

How To Choose A Therapist

104

Banish The Inner Critic

105

Two Tools for Self-Discovery

106

Do I Have Divine Power?

107

A New Year

108

Post Christmas Challenge

109

Run, Relaxation & Routine

110

Emmet Fox - The Golden Key

111

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

112

A Winter Lesson on Hibernation and Letting Go

113

Unlocking the Power of Affirmations

114

The Word “God"

115

Keep Your Heart Open

116

What Is A Shamanic Practitioner?

117

Practice Doing Better

118

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

119

The FRESH OUTTA PLANS® 3-Pillar Solution for Fatigue

120

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

121

Sept 24, 2023 Workshop on the Big Book

122

A Look At Your Relationship with Substances

123

Where Is Your Imagination?

124

What Is Said vs What Is Heard

125

Recipe for a Painful Relationship

126

Human Kindness: Is It Overflowing?

127

Lion’s Gate Portal

128

The Lost Art of Breathing

129

Spiritual Practices for Beginners

130

What Does Being FRESH OUTTA PLANS® Really Mean?

131

Changing Seats on the Titanic

132

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

133

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

134

Living in the Present

135

Blamers and Victims are Most Annoying

136

Poverty Consciousness

137

Whose Feelings Are You Feeling?

138

Are You Interested Or Committed?

139

Power in the Pause

140

Why is Introspection Valuable?

141

Instincts in Collision

142

Dear Younger Self

143

Dreams: How do I do it?

144

Destiny

145

No Spiritual Follow Thru

146

The Divine Economist

147

Are You A Control Freak?

148

Do You have Resentments?

149

A Recorder

150

I Wanna Talk About Love

151

Action is the Magic Word

152

Working with Archangel Michael

153

There is No Such Thing as Low Self-Esteem

154

Manifesting Miracle

155

Oh Dear. Expectations.

156

Facing a New Year 2023

157

Planting New Year Seeds

158

Avoiding Holiday “Triggers"

159

Everyday Spiritual Practices

160

Appearances

161

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

162

Time and Clutter

163

Self Discovery: In Which Chapter Are you Living?

164

Are You a Fringe-Dweller?

165

Pay Attention

166

Trusting Your Supply

167

Trusting the Invisible

168

Gracefilled Trees

169

Fresh Outta Plans: The Poem

170

The Promise of a Shaman

171

More On Affirmations And Denials

172

Acceptance

173

But It’s Not Fair!

174

The Ugly Tree

175

Questions to Ask Yourself When Feeling Anxiety

176

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse & Others

177

Feeling Anger at an idealized Parent

178

The Month Before Your Birthday

179

Four Pitfalls in Our Thinking

180

Timing

181

Reflecting

182

Turmoil and Chaos

183

Has Our Attention Been Hacked?

184

It Is Not Always About You

185

Do You Have Trouble Meditating?

186

How to Use Oracle Cards Part 2

187

How to Use Oracle Cards Part 1

188

My Conversation With A White Oleander

189

Get Out Into Nature

190

From Invisible to Visible

191

Where Are your Eyeglasses Pointing?

192

Out of Balance

193

Intuition, Mantras and Letting Go

194

What Are Your Spiritual Practices?

195

Trust and Being an ACOA

196

What Are Oracle Cards and how Do I Use Them?

197

Shamanism & 4 Spiritual Illnesses

198

German Shepherd Thinking

199

Living With Uncertainty

200

Are you Acting Like A teenager?

201

Peace & Love: The One Minute Hug

202

Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters by Portia Nelson

203

Inspirational Thoughts

204

Are You Weary of Covid?

205

Intentions and New Year’s Resolutions

206

Family and the Holidays

207

Incident Writing/Grief Work

208

Here It Comes Again

209

Trust Yourself

210

Internal and External Landscapes

211

Using H.A.L.T

212

Holiday Expectations

213

Two Common Mistakes Parents Make

214

Calling All Parents or Parent Wanna Be's

215

Healthy Family Characteristics vs Families Disturbed by Addiction/Alcoholism

216

Under-learning in Adult Children of Alcoholics

217

Head, Heart & Feet

218

Pandora’s Gift

219

My Favorite Affirmations, Mantras & Prayers

220

How To Speak With Children

221

The Healing Power of Denial?

222

The Healing Power of Visualization

223

I Am

224

Never Argue With A Hunch

225

Integration

226

Yeah But

227

We Can Choose Our Own Attitude

228

Are you a doer?

229

Unhappy? Hurt? Three Assessments To See Why.

230

Thoughts, Messages and Conclusions

231

Is Your Side Of The Street Clean?

232

Debates, Judgments and Opinions

233

Are You Hooked on Hope and Longing?

234

Why Do Some People Get Addicted?

235

Adult Children Of Alcoholics Traits Part 2

236

Identification & Adult Children Of Alcoholics Traits

237

Can You Laugh at Yourself?

238

What Kind of "Floaties" Do I Need?

239

Getting to the Heart of Irrational Ideas

240

The Promise Of A Shaman

241

Casting your Pearls Before Swine

242

Stop The War Inside You

243

Affirmations and Denials

244

My Friend Lorna Kelly

245

Balancing Humanity with Divinity

246

The Water Cycle & Your True Essence

247

Grace-Filled Trees

248

Don’t Die With the Music Still In You

249

Rowing Against Wind and Tide

250

The Mystery of Love

251

Advice vs Experience

252

Hell in the Hallway

253

Why Fresh Outta Plans?

254

Body Image

255

What’s In Your Backpack?

256

Feelings! UGH!

257

Why the Name Recovered Therapist?