Are You Helping… or Enabling? The Shift from Saving to Supporting and Setting Boundaries

MAY 4, 202636 MIN
Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy Life

Are You Helping… or Enabling? The Shift from Saving to Supporting and Setting Boundaries

MAY 4, 202636 MIN

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It can be such a fine line between helping and enabling, between supporting someone we love and trying to save them. When you’re in it, it’s hard to see clearly. You feel their pain, and everything in you wants to make it better.In this episode, I share from my own experience and from the Recover Your Soul process about what it really means to love someone without trying to fix them. This isn’t about finding the “right” answer, because every relationship and every situation is unique. It’s about turning inward and beginning to recognize when we are acting from fear and discomfort, and when we are responding from a more grounded, soulful place.So often, our desire to help comes from not wanting to feel the pain of watching someone struggle. But what if peace doesn’t come from changing them? What if it comes from acceptance?As we shift from saving to supporting, we begin to let go of control and trust that each soul is on its own journey. We can still love deeply, still be present, but from a place of clarity, compassion, and healthier boundaries.If you’re feeling overwhelmed or unsure of how to show up for someone you love, you are not alone. This is the work, and there is another way.Remember, this isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about recovering the wholeness that has always been within you.Send a one way text to Rev Rachel 🦋 The Recovery Your Soul Podcast courses and content is for educational purposes only and is not affiliated with or representative of any organization, recovery group, or religion. And reflect the personal experience and opinions of Rev Rachel Harrison and her guests. RYS claims no responsibility, any person or entity for any loss, liability, damage caused or alleged to be caused, direct or indirectly by the use application or interpretation of the information presented within. Support the showFREE Mini Recover Your Soul 9-Step WorkbookFREE Support Group on Zoom 6-7PM MT on the 1st Monday of the MonthSelf Study collective &  Soul Circles to walk the Recover Your Soul Steps in CommunityGet the Book Recover Your Soul, Rev. Rachel’s spiritual memoir  1:1 Spiritual Coaching with Rev Rachel TRYASESSION for 40% off 1st session Follow on Social MediaRYS Bonus Podcast  Patreon Member or subscribing on Apple Podcasts for an extra episode every Friday. Free Patreon Members get access 1st week to new episodes.Transcripts