Clearing the Wreckage
What is clearing the wreckage podcast? Your host Kareem
A. Rashed also known as #TheRealKareem, shares how he is clearing the wreckage from his life. The remains and fragments and broken pieces that are left behind from either the poor decisions or actions taken in life. The wreck or plenty of wrecks for that matter has consequences and repercussions when we go the wrong way. Kareem, has went the wrong direction for most of his life causing wreckage due to his alcoholism and addiction. As a recovering alcoholic, he exposes himself to you with very raw, uncut, and authentic detail how the self centered disease of addiction left plenty of wreckage behind. This wreckage was there for years from resentments, to a blinding ego, selfishness, lack of accountability, lack of awareness, low self esteem, lack of emotional maturity and the list goes on. Kareem welcomes you on this journey with him as he openly shares with you how he is now clearing the wreckage. We clear the wreckage so that we can be free. Free to be ourselves, free to love, free to accept ourselves and others and free to give. Kareem only wishes to share with you his experience, strength and hope by being vulnerable and authentic. He is a published author, poet, writer and speaker who is striving each day to evolve and grow. Come grow with him as he explores life while still learning, he is just like you, equal and no less than or better than.
Episodes
71 episodes
Ep 71 "I am the best, no I am the worst." My ego says!
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Today I get vulnerable with you and share with you how I was feeling during parts of my marriage to my ex wife. I was only feeling the way I was due to my ego. Feeling great then feeling horrible was all produced by my...
Ep 70 Oh yeah I can save you..wait..no I can't..oops my bad!
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Do you feel that someone else's happiness or unhappiness is your fault? Do you offer unsolicited advice? Do you derive your self worth from being needed? Do you struggle to say "no"? Well, I do and I did. I don't as mu...
Ep 69 EGO(Edging God Out) is why(Big Head)!
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! This is probably going to bruise your ego and may even hurt your feelings and may even cause you to judge me. That's all ego by the way big head. Go ahead, I get it. I am hurt and offended and sensitive also!! hahaha!!...
Ep 68 Acceptance found only in the present
Hey My Wreckage Clearers! We can only practice acceptance in the present. Our reality only happens in the now. Everything else is false. The past and the future. Not that the past didn't happen, it did, but it's no longer present. The future is...
Ep 67 Can you accept others and stop trying to change people please?
Hey My Wreckage Clearers!! This is one of those life changing episodes! It is time to accept others and stop judging and placing them into categories. I am no different than you and you are no different than me is the attitude that I hav...
Ep 66 You can't grow without accepting yourself
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Today it was time to have the talk of self acceptance and how this is the starting point of growth. Do you accept yourself? Let's dive a little deeper on this shall we? I am sharing with you my journey of self a...
Ep 65 Why Divine Love and Acceptance
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! I opened up with a poem so don't be alarmed but I know you will love it. It is a special poem I wrote when I was beginning to grow in love with myself and with the Divine and experience that greatest love which is the ...
Ep 64 Experience Divine Love
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Today this is going to change your life! Think of Divine love as something everlasting, infinite, present always, un-conditional. This love is not like the selfish love with conditions we may show each other. No, this ...
Ep 63 No self worth means no self love
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Well today I expose myself and share a little more wreckage with you as always...haha! Let's get deep into what it looks like to have no or low self worth when it a relationship and how it affects the dynamics of it. I...
Ep 62 A genuine love
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! I wanted to do a little deep dive and kind of unpack what it looks like to receive genuine love and what it looks like when we lack that genuine love for ourselves. I wanted to give you something to grasp hold of and t...
Ep 61 Are you ready for love?
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Are you ready for love? Well first you must love yourselves. You cannot give what you don't have. You cannot give love to anyone not genuine love at least of you don't love yourself genuinely. As you are and for who yo...
Ep 60 becoming comfortable in your own skin/Returning home
Hey My Wreckage Clearers! Well February 22 was my ten year anniversary of sobriety and recovery. No drug and no alcohol for the past ten years. As you know over the course of these years I have been clearing the wreckage or learning how to in m...
ep 59 I'll love you until you love yourself!
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! I was told this several times and I didn't get it until I faced the fact that they were right. I did not love myself. Do you love yourself? our natural response is to say, Yes to that question immediately. But do we re...
Ep 58 Have some compassion, will you?
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Today we discuss how after I came to life it was about me bringing life to everyone. realizing that I belong and we belong together. I no longer viewed myself as separate from anyone. I knew that I am interconnected to...
Ep 57 I was dead but I came back to life!
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! We dive s little bit deeper into what it looks like to be spiritually dead versus spiritually awakened. Of course as always, I share my life with you and in that you will see how I was a dead man walking. The walking d...
Ep 56 Spiritual Awakening
Hey wreckage Clearers! Get ready for an explosive episode of rebirth, enlightenment and freedom. After I had practiced all those principles we discussed in previous episodes, I began to have a spiritual awakening. I began to see that I am a spi...
Ep 55 Meditate to improve your connection
Hey Wreckage Clearers! On this episode we will discuss how it was for me back then learning that I needed to meditate to improve my connection with God. I share with you how it is important to be silent and sit in stillness for a little while. ...
Ep 54 Improve your connection(prayer)
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Yep it was that time in my journey where I needed to improve my connection to and with God. My wifi signal needed to go from poor to excellent. I had a different viewpoint of God and even what prayer was all about back...
Ep 53 Continue to look inside, promptly admit when wrong
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! I must continue to look inside and promptly admit when wrong. The only way for me to know that I have done wrong or that I may be a little off or not on the right track is by looking inside. I must look at myself first...
Ep 52 Setting things right with others
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! Now it was and is time to begin setting things right with others. By this point in my journey I had become fully aware of the harm I caused others so I made a list of those people I harmed and I set out to make things ...
Ep 51 Set things right with yourself first
Hey my wreckage clearers! In this episode I discuss with you the process of how it was for me to set things right with myself first. I share with you exactly how it looked and what took place inside of me. I was given a set of new eyes as I was...
ep 50 Ok, now you're growing(it is time to grow up)
Hey my Wreckage Clearers! I had to grow up and it was past time and it was happening. I truly began to grow and clear the wreckage once I saw with the right eyes the wreckage I have caused. The harm I had done to myself and the harm I had done ...
Ep 49 You have to go through it to get to it! (Grace and Humility)
Hey Wreckage Clearers! I was at that point where I experienced grace and humility. These two things are required to get to it. Not required to go through it but if you gonna get to it, these two things must coexist. As they do actually coexist ...
Ep 48 I had to humbly ask God to remove my shortcomings
Hey Wreckage Clearers! Now was the time in my journey where I had to humbly ask that power greater than me to remove my defects of character. I realized this one foundational truth: That I can not do it on my own. Walk with me as I share my exp...
Ep 47 Admit to God and someone else the exact nature of my wrongs
Hey Wreckage Clearers! It was time for me to fully own up to my crap. All of it. No more beating around the bush. No more denial. No more blame game. No more. This is one of the most vital steps in the process of clearing the wreckage. It gave ...