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Clearing the Wreckage

Kareem A. Rashed (#TheRealKareem)www.buzzsprout.com

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. 

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Episodes

Ep 73 I had to go home

Send us Fan Mail Hey my Wreckage Clearers! This conversation is based on my experience of my marriage from 2017 to 2019 and how I lost myself but finally came home to my true self. I go over the analogy of baseball with you a little deeper than last time and how it relates to life's journey and my journey then. I hope this conversation is relatable and impactful to you. Let's continue to clear the wreckage together as one. To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthewr...

May 25, 202634 minSeason 1Ep. 73

Ep 72 I was filled with anxiety,,,I wonder why..Ego!

Send us Fan Mail Hey my Wreckage Clearers! As you know I get real and personal and vulnerable with you. Listen as I share about how I learned where my anxiety was stemming from and the why behind it all. I am sharing this with you because this is where we clear the wreckage and I hope that this conversation will enlighten you and as always take the time to look inside so that the wreckage can begin to clear. To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthewreckagepodcast o...

May 18, 202646 minSeason 1Ep. 72

Ep 71 "I am the best, no I am the worst." My ego says!

Send us Fan Mail 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 ego and only that. It was not until I took the time to look inside that the wreckage begin to clear. Let's walk together on this journey. To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthewreckagepodcast on instagram....

May 11, 202643 minSeason 1Ep. 71

Ep 70 Oh yeah I can save you..wait..no I can't..oops my bad!

Send us Fan Mail 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 much as I did back then and I'm here to share my story with you. So come along on this journey with me and let's clear the wreckage together!! To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthewreckagepodcast on instagra...

May 04, 202652 minSeason 1Ep. 70

Ep 69 EGO(Edging God Out) is why(Big Head)!

Send us Fan Mail 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!! This is the main root cause why I would have any trouble accepting myself, accepting others, and reality. My ego. Me, me, me, I, I, I, until we realize that the me and the I is a whole of the we which makes one than we have took the time ...

Apr 27, 202637 minSeason 1Ep. 69

Ep 68 Acceptance found only in the present

Send us Fan Mail 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 completely fictional. Because we have no idea what will happen. When we embrace the what is that is when we can accept our reality. To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthewreckagepodcast on instagram. Follo...

Apr 20, 202643 minSeason 1Ep. 68

Ep 67 Can you accept others and stop trying to change people please?

Send us Fan Mail 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 have learned to take on which has helped me clear the wreckage and accept others. When you are able to see yourself in others than it is a lot easier to accept them as they are. The key is accepting ourselves first and then of course recognizing you...

Apr 13, 202643 minSeason 1Ep. 67

Ep 66 You can't grow without accepting yourself

Send us Fan Mail 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 acceptance and being real with how this is a process. Let's grow together in clearing the wreckage. I shouted it out my boy Trent Shelton, so please go listen to his podcast. To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthew...

Apr 06, 202648 minSeason 1Ep. 66

Ep 65 Why Divine Love and Acceptance

Send us Fan Mail 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 divine love and we will be discussing about how both divine love and acceptance interconnect. I give you some homework on this one. Do it! Also how important it is to accept this love and we also discuss how the struggle is real and how I ...

Mar 30, 202645 minSeason 1Ep. 65

Ep 64 Experience Divine Love

Send us Fan Mail 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 love will never leave you and always forgive you and always will hold you and comfort you. do you know of this love? Have you experienced it? There may be a part two and three to this one. To learn more about this podcast you can direct me...

Mar 23, 202646 minSeason 1Ep. 64

Ep 63 No self worth means no self love

Send us Fan Mail 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 got real honest with y'all today. Why we need self worth in order to grow in love with ourselves and others? To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthewreckagepodcast on instagram. Follow on instagram @clearin...

Mar 16, 202651 minSeason 1Ep. 63

Ep 62 A genuine love

Send us Fan Mail 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 take with you. I always share my experience with you so I know you have that but today I wanted you to have a little bit more knowledge on the subject of love. Hope this is encouraging for you. To learn more about this podcast you can direc...

Mar 09, 202641 minSeason 1Ep. 62

Ep 61 Are you ready for love?

Send us Fan Mail 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 you are. So my question is, Are you ready for love? To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthewreckagepodcast on instagram. Follow on instagram @clearingthewreckagepodcast Follow on Facebook @Kareem A Rashed Foll...

Mar 02, 202638 minSeason 1Ep. 61

Ep 60 becoming comfortable in your own skin/Returning home

Send us Fan Mail 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 my daily walk. Now my purpose is to share with you my experience and give life back especially since I was dead and came back to life. I talk with you in this conversation mainly about returning home and being comfortable with yourself. I s...

Feb 24, 202644 minSeason 1Ep. 60

ep 59 I'll love you until you love yourself!

Send us Fan Mail 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 really love ourselves? I share with you authentically as always how I come to that realization that I don't love myself and of course the process and the work that it involves. How we began to clear the wreckage and start loving ourselves. T...

Feb 16, 202635 minSeason 1Ep. 59

Ep 58 Have some compassion, will you?

Send us Fan Mail 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 all beings. Which fostered a deeper empathy and compassion for myself and well really myself because there is no such thing as other. We are all but mere reflections. How Can I help? How can I serve? How can I love? Questions I began to a...

Feb 09, 202649 minSeason 1Ep. 58

Ep 57 I was dead but I came back to life!

Send us Fan Mail 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 dead for sure, a zombie. I also talk about how I walked differently after my transformation. I was a totally new person. I hope that you love this episode and share with your peeps. it's a good one To learn more about this podcast you can d...

Feb 02, 202650 minSeason 1Ep. 57

Ep 56 Spiritual Awakening

Send us Fan Mail 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 spiritual being having a human experience. I realized my purpose and that I was put here on purpose for a purpose. Do you realize who you are yet? To learn more about this podcast you can direct message me @clearingthewreckagepodcast on insta...

Jan 26, 202634 minSeason 1Ep. 56

Ep 55 Meditate to improve your connection

Send us Fan Mail 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. I also share with you some tools that I used back then to help me meditate. I just needed to learn how to sit still and be with God and be with myself. Be in my thoughts and be. We are just that..human beings. Very short episode and quick ...

Jan 19, 202631 minSeason 1Ep. 55

Ep 54 Improve your connection(prayer)

Send us Fan Mail 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 then. I thought prayer was just asking for what I need all the time. I found out though that prayer was a way for me to communicate and grow an intimate connection with God. Inviting god in to my life. Walking with God. I invite you in as...

Jan 12, 202638 minSeason 1Ep. 54

Ep 53 Continue to look inside, promptly admit when wrong

Send us Fan Mail 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. Take stock if you will, and taker an inventory. What's there ? What is missing? What do I need? How can I improve? Where did I go wrong? But also I must see the good as well. Like a business does inventory, the same applies with me. What...

Jan 05, 202634 minSeason 1Ep. 53

Ep 52 Setting things right with others

Send us Fan Mail 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 right. We must become aware of the harm we are causing others first. That's why it is imperative to set things right with yourself first. Are you still walking around being a child? Are you demonstrating child-like behaviors? Such as not a...

Dec 29, 202540 minSeason 1Ep. 52

Ep 51 Set things right with yourself first

Send us Fan Mail 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 now able to see myself correctly. What I mean is, the way that God sees me, through the eyes of love and grace. then I was able to grab that love and grace and wrapped myself up in it and forgive myself and move forward with those new eye...

Dec 22, 202542 minSeason 1Ep. 51

ep 50 Ok, now you're growing(it is time to grow up)

Send us Fan Mail 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 to others or caused others. It was right in front of me so now what was I gonna do? Well when you are faced with the truth, you can either deny and play hide and seek or you can grow up and take the necessary steps to began clearing the wr...

Dec 15, 202542 minSeason 1Ep. 50

Ep 49 You have to go through it to get to it! (Grace and Humility)

Send us Fan Mail 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 with one another perfectly. You'll see in our discussion today how I needed both and how we need both in order to get to it. We must and I mean it is a must that we go through it first. Not around it, not away from it, not hide from it, bu...

Dec 08, 202542 minSeason 1Ep. 49

Ep 48 I had to humbly ask God to remove my shortcomings

Send us Fan Mail 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 experience with you, how it was and what it was like and also what it is like now. Remember we are on this journey together. And as much as it takes me some humility to say, I need help and I need for God to do for me what I cannot do for mys...

Dec 01, 202547 minSeason 1Ep. 48

Ep 47 Admit to God and someone else the exact nature of my wrongs

Send us Fan Mail 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 me so much peace and still to this day it facilitates a sense of peace and produces humility and ultimately forgiveness. That forgiveness from God and others and most of all the forgiveness of self and from self. Also produces growth, beca...

Nov 24, 202549 minSeason 1Ep. 47

Ep 46 Stop being a victim and be victorious

Send us Fan Mail Hey Wreckage Clearers! it is time for us to be victorious. Have our head held high and looking straight ahead toward victory. Truthfully we are already victorious. We must stop believing the lie that we decided to send through our head over and over again. Realize who we really are. We are triumphant, successful, amazing, beautiful, and wonderful. But we must clear the wreckage first in order to see what truly lies inside! To learn more about this podcast you can direct message ...

Nov 17, 202546 minSeason 1Ep. 46

Ep 45 Resentments could actually kill you!

Send us Fan Mail Hey Wreckage Clearers! Join me as I share with you how I did not know I had resentments at all. I thought I was just a little mad. What I found out though is that the resentments I had were actually killing me and it was leading me to destruction. I thought other people were dying, you know the people I was resentful at...Lol. In turn though, it was me. I was the one that was dying. Do you want to live? Do you want to be free? I'm sure you do. So let's clear the wreckage togethe...

Nov 11, 202551 minSeason 1Ep. 45

Ep 44 Is your mind closed?

Send us Fan Mail Hey wreckage clearers! It is still imperative that we become open minded and the only way to become open minded is by first realizing that we are closed minded. I share a story with you of my closed mind and how I began to clear the wreckage in order to open my mind up a little bit at a time. Remember this is our journey together as one, as we learn to practice ways to become more open minded together. So listen up as there is lots to say about this topic. My mind used to be clo...

Nov 03, 202556 minSeason 1Ep. 44
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