Trust Is Actually Control? : Rev. Rachel Harrison on Codependency, Addiction & Letting Go
About this episode
Tanya Gioia interviews Rev. Rachel Harrison about codependency, addiction, and the importance of trust in God versus people.
In this episode, Tanya Gioia sits down with Rev. Rachel Harrison — spiritual coach, ordained minister, and host of the Recover Your Soul Podcast — for a raw conversation about codependency, people-pleasing, and what it really means to feel safe. Rachel shares her own journey through alcoholism, a marriage marked by addiction, and raising sons who struggled with their own battles, and how a 2018 moment of grace led her into recovery, ordination, and eventually her own 9-Step Recover Your Soul process. Together, Tanya and Rachel unpack the difference between trust in people and trust in God, why "self-care" goes far deeper than nails and hair, and how healing yourself ripples out to heal your whole family. Key Points: Rachel's story: codependency, "gray area" drinking, and marrying into traditional alcoholism Why she reframes the 12 Steps' "character defects" as protectors of the heart The difference between trusting people and trusting God — and why leaning on human trust creates control, not safety Letting her son be "entitled to his suffering" — releasing the urge to save her children Creating safety in relationships through honesty, not control Forgiveness of self as parents…
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