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Recovery Daily Podcast

Rachel (Miller) Abbassi

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

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00:32:31

Alcoholism in the Workplace: Employer Support Can...

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2025/08/11

Alcoholism in the workplace is more common than many realize. Suffering alcoholics are terrified to speak up for fear of losing their jobs, facing stigma, or being labeled a liability. I’ve lived both extremes of employer response. One company, after I returned from self-admitted detox, gave me an ultimatum to move across the country or take a severance package. They had the resources to support me but chose to “pick the dead leaf off the tree and flick it into the yard.” The message was clear that

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00:14:05

Poopy Days: Pushing Through Recovery Slumps

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2025/08/09

I started my podcast to talk about daily life in recovery, and that means showing up even when I’m in a slump. While I don’t feel hopeless, I’m frustrated with no inspiring suggestions for rising out of it. I’m physically and mentally drained, and I just need to say it out loud to acknowledge that I’m in a brief season of poopiness. Even though I know what helps, some days I don’t want to do any of it. I’ve been pulling away from things that hurt my head, limiting screen time, using VoiceOver on my

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00:30:26

Self-Centeredness To Self-Focused: Healing From the...

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2025/08/07

Today’s topic makes me laugh, “It’s Not All About Me”, yet here I am, talking about me again. I share my experience navigating stroke recovery, a vestibular disorder, and sobriety because it’s all I truly know, and I hope it helps someone who is still suffering. This morning’s meditation was about not taking things personally, which sounds simple, but it’s complex in action. I take everything personally, and practice responding instead of reacting. Self-focus has always been my default in survival

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00:28:10

Freedom Through Dependence: Neutralizing Self-Will

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2025/08/07

Dependence can lead to independence. I’ve been feeling terrible still because I haven’t honored my limitations that worsen my head pain. It’s been several weeks now with no improvements. I decided that I must switch over to 100% dependence on Voiceover for iPhone for at least 4 days. Otherwise, I will get worse. My symptoms have surpassed what is manageable. I’ve been playing with fire. I must take my life seriously. I only get one shot at this. Back when I was drinking, I wasn’t taking life

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00:19:20

The Gravel Road To Oz: Perseverance On Unexpected Paths

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2025/08/06

Sometimes life’s path feels more like a gravel trail. I stop often to dump the pebbles out of my shoes, frustrated and tired, wondering where it's leading. But when there’s a break in the trees, the Land of Oz is shimmering ahead of me. My recovery has taught me not to let the path itself stop my perseverance. When I don’t get what I want, it can feel like a huge loss. And yet, there is gratitude there if I seek it.I get to choose which feelings I feed. I choose behaviors that feed love, hope,

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00:31:07

Sober but Not Spiritually Fit: Why Dry Isn’t Enough

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2025/08/05

Even five years into sobriety, I didn’t really get the spiritual part of the program. I didn't know the difference between religion and spirituality, and I couldn’t tell you what spiritual fitness was. I thought I was doing recovery right because I wasn’t drinking, but there was so much more in store for me. Spiritual fitness is being willing to pause and ask myself, “Are all your parts okay, Rachel? Your heart, your mind, your purpose, your joy?” The most amazing parts of this life go unseen

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00:26:00

Pleasant but Not Present: Invisible Harm Done To Others

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2025/08/02

I thought I was only hurting me. But when I look back and take my inventory, I see the human wreckage I left behind. By making life easier for me, I was making life harder for those I love the most. I stole their peace of mind by being mentally absent when they needed me. There’s a photo of me with my kids taken at my sister’s house, surrounded by love, and just I remember the terrible hangover, dehydration, and desperation to get back home and drink. I was pleasant, but I wasn’t present. That is

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00:22:05

One Day At A Time: My Mind Where My Feet Are

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2025/08/01

Today was one of those days where I just needed to stay in the moment. My migraine hasn’t let up (I’m due for my Emgality shot tomorrow), but instead of spiraling into depression, I keep my mind where my feet are. Mental time travel to yesterday and tomorrow breaks my serenity, so I try to stay right here. I made handmade greeting cards to connect with loved ones and say thank you for birthday gifts this month. Creativity and purpose pulled me out of myself and dropped me in to acts of

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00:26:22

Stroke and Vestibular Recovery: The Cost of Ignoring...

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2025/07/31

This morning, I woke up deep in self-pity. The pain in my head was what I call a vestibular hangover, and I immediately started beating myself up for doing what I know triggers it—scrolling on a computer. I still try to chase digital fun like I used to, just like you, or you wouldn’t be reading this. I get sucked in to the internet, without thinking about what I’m taking away from myself tomorrow in the process. The pain is going to be there either way, and sometimes I gamble with it, thinking a

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00:24:46

Sobriety Beyond Year One: Staying Through the Storms

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2025/07/30

After I hit one year of sobriety, I remember thinking, “now what?” I was physically sober, so this must be as good as it gets. That was far from the truth. Physical sobriety was just the beginning. Emotional and spiritual sobriety were things I still had to grow into through consistency, daily practices, calling my sponsor, sobriety meetings, and working through storms using the steps. The idea that we just maintain our sobriety doesn’t feel quite right to me. My spiritual condition blooms when I

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00:31:31

Alcohol Has No Arms: Sobriety and Stroke Parallel...

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2025/07/29

I used to think I didn’t have control over my drinking. Like, if I thought about wine, then I had to drink. I’d walk by a bush and feel like alcohol was just going to jump out at me and throw itself down my throat. That’s how powerless I felt. But the truth is, alcohol doesn’t have arms. Craving is not a command. It took practice, and walking by a lot of bushes and not drinking, to learn that I could interrupt the thought. I could pause, call someone, and redirect my brain. And the more I practiced

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00:19:02

Outsmarting the Octopus: The Tentacles of Addiction

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2025/07/26

It struck me this morning that alcoholism is like an octopus. Its tentacles reached into every corner of my life: my health, my emotions, my relationships, my self-worth, and my career. The disease was strangling me. And like a octopus, it’s smart. It could camouflage itself in denial, shame, secrecy, and ego so convincingly that I didn’t know I was very sick. Every time I thought I had it cornered, it would slip through as character defects, like perfectionism, people-pleasing, anger, and fear.The

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00:39:28

Meditation For Recovery: Staring at Nothing on Purpose

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2025/07/25

One of my early podcast episodes, an introduction to meditation in stroke recovery, got a lot of views. Back then, I was all about neuroplasticity, everyone’s favorite buzzword in stroke recovery. I even did a whole seven-day meditation series focused on visualizing healing in the brain. It didn’t exactly go viral, but it helped me and a few others, and that’s enough. I still meditate on a less formal and very flexible schedule. I don’t need to wait until I feel ready to meditate in order to sit

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00:27:52

The Laughing Gas Test: Where Sobriety Meets Medication

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2025/07/24

In early sobriety, I was sitting in a periodontist chair being offered laughing gas, and I got way too excited. That was my red flag. The addict in me found a loophole. But the woman I’ve become in recovery knew to pause. I asked the dental hygienist for a moment so I could call my sponsor. Admittedly I was uncomfortable, but I called my sponsor right there from the dentist chair. I ended up choosing Novocain instead. My sponsor suggested that only I knew what’s right for me in that moment, and I

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00:28:28

Forever Syndrome: When Overthinking Sobriety Pulls...

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2025/07/23

“Forever syndrome” is what kept me drinking during my attempts to quit. That whole “I have to do this for the rest of my life” thinking had me drinking again before I gave recovery a real chance. What I realized today is that I couldn’t reasonably and realistically envision my life without alcohol because I hadn’t yet adopted the tools of the 12 steps. So, the “rest of my life” I imagined wasn’t real. It was a version shaped by emotional pain and the absence of my only coping tool.Emotional sobriety

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00:24:59

Search No More: Joy Is Already Inside You

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2025/07/22

Living with an open heart is like a flower that blooms in the sunlight and gently folds in the rain. Flowers close to protect their nectar just like I close to protect my joy if I think it’s in jeopardy. Life rains on us sometimes, and what matters is whether we are willing to open back up. Despite chronic pain, vestibular and cognitive challenges, and the daily unpredictability of stroke recovery, I still show up. I still open myself to joy through connection, creativity, and exercise. And on days

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00:33:55

Quiet Strength: Trading My Armor for Humility

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2025/07/19

I’ve had to feel my way into humility. In the beginning of my sobriety, my character defects felt better than humility. I felt like giving them up was shrinking myself or losing the parts of me that made me a strong woman. But I’ve come to understand that humility is a quiet strength. Humility helps me pause before reacting and listen for the next right thing instead of charging ahead with my old instincts. My character defects of defensiveness, isolation, and control were my armor that felt like

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00:27:51

Permanent Energy: Love Fueled Signs of the Universe

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2025/07/18

A discarded pineapple Fanta can followed by another “e-motorcycle” sighting yesterday reminded me why I keep playing this little sign‑spotting game with the universe. When I ask for a sign and then open myself up to seeing one, there it is mere steps after the decision. The pineapple has been my sobriety mascot ever since my first sober business trip at San Francisco’s Staypineapple Hotel. Yesterday proved once again that the cosmos still has impeccable timing when I ask for a sign. I explain more

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00:19:38

Romanticizing the Drink: Grief Disguised As Craving

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2025/07/17

Autumn, my resident four‑legged princess, gave me her classic “Oh bother, Mom’s monologuing again” eye‑roll just as I hit record for my podcast episode today. My spirits were still buoyant from a lovely pool afternoon with two sober friends, so I ignored her pouty pooch protest. The universe’s timing is beautiful. Yesterday I was yanked me out of the moment and straight into a technicolor flashback of me standing in front of a double fridge stuffed wall‑to‑wall with cheap cold ones under the roof of

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00:23:45

Drop the Hot Coal: Trading Grudges for Serenity

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2025/07/16

I woke up groggy with my usual vestibular hangover. I got my coffee and sat down ready to “download” guidance from my higher power through my morning sobriety meetings. Our reading covered being unwilling to make amends for a lingering resentment. What I realized was that I experienced a similar resistance to making amends. I wasn't ready because I didn't yet have the tools to face my part in the relationship. I lacked enough of the program’s tools and need to keep showing up to meetings and

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