In this inspirational episode, Rachel shares her mission statement that she wrote four years ago prior to her stroke and only three years into recovery from alcoholism. Its evident that life has prepared her with adversity to fulfill her mission.

Listen to a message from Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl.

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In this episode, Rachel discusses life balance composed of physical, emotional, and spiritual components. She shares the importance of leaving work off the scale. True balance is within you, not where you are and for how many hours.

Rachel expands to say that the more she gets to know herself, the more she is able to focus outward and share what happiness and serenity she has left over with others.

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Happiness starts with acceptance. Rachel talks about how focusing on what needs to change within rather than what needs to change in her environment is the key to happiness. Happiness is not a result of some thing. It is a state of mind that depends on serentity.

In this episode, Rachel shares the three main components that feed her happiness: acceptance, helpfulness, and forgiveness.

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Repeated failures teach us that we can't, even though we can. We learn how to be hopeless. So, we learn how to be hopeful, too.

Rachel shares in this episode about the importance of acknowledging what you are willing to do to reach your goal. She uses sobriety as an example. She shares about a pivotal moment after relapsing. When her daughter told her its ok to try again, she realized at that moment what she was willing to do the be sober.

To give up or keep going is a decision based on simply what you are willing to do to get what you want.

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In this episode, Rachel shares about sacrificing her health to work hard. Even with neurological vision impairment she still pushes her limits against what causes her chronic headaches.

The popular term these days is work-life balance. There's a difference between passion and obsession. Passion enriches your life and obsession steals from it. Rachel talks about the key components to passion are your core values. Is your hard work aligned with your core values? Are you adhering to your intra-personal boundaries that support your core values or do you become obsessive?

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How do we know whether we are making the right decision? Rachel suggests that there is no right decision. It is the action you take after the decision, your commitment to the decision, and urgency that impact the consequences of your decisions.

Have you ever evaluated whether you were making a decision with your head or your heart? How 'bout your gut? Has fear ever driven a decision you've made?

In this episode, Rachel talks about her most recent hard decision she made that felt all wrong even. The actions she's taken since making that decision are beginning to feel right.

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In this episode, Rachel shares some highlights from her drunkalogue. The personality change that was a result of her drinking was one of the reasons why she drank, until it became a reason why she couldn't drink.

Rachel talks about the false idea that drunks all look like drunks and drink 24/7. Alcoholism is all around us and does not discriminate.

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Rachel shares about her struggles with when to depend on her own internal resources for happiness and when to ask for help so she doesn't have to go it alone. She shares about a time in her life when she realized that she needed to cultivate her own happiness that remains static under all the life stuff that happens day to day.

Solely seeking happiness outside of ourselves tees us up for disappointment and resentments. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't allow ourselves to be vulnerable to love.

In this episode, Rachel shares four quick exercises to do on a daily basis to cultivate that happiness within you.

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In this episode, Rachel shares her thoughts about investing her emotions and actions toward writing her story. She does not see herself as an exception to the odds of living as a stroke survivor and recovering alcoholic living with mental illness. She is not exceptional in the way that she walks through recovery. Rachel shares that she simply practices acceptance the way she learned to in her sobriety program. Every day she wakes up and accepts that she's an alcoholic and stroke survivor. She accepts these facts as gifts that define her goals, rather than obstacles that define her limitations.

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Rachel is one of those people who believes that we can manifest our own greatness in life. Similarly by practicing gratitude, even when we don't want to, we generate more to be grateful for.

Rachel shares in this episode how the greatest difficulties in her life evolve into the greatest gifts that prepare her for the next great difficulty. Gratitude during difficult time cultivates our own state of well-being and mindfulness. We need to keep rewriting events in our lives until we conceive the happy ending.

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