It is very easy to recover your account on steemit. If you forgot your steemit account password then there is a few works that you have to do for recover your steemit account. Firstly, you have to remember the email address that you used to verify your account. Then you have fulfill all steps in this link (https://steemit.com/recover_account_step_1). After doing all this things, you have to wait for 2 or 3 days for getting a email from steemit. Within 2 or 3 days you will get a mail there will be a link and you should have to go there. The. You should do all the necessary things that you done when you first join in steemit.
You have to do this all things for recovering you new account.
thats totally incorrect Im afraid. I opened the new account via steemconnect, no email, just my existing account, but thanks for trying :-)