You're listening to Over the Influence. I'm your host Arielle Lori. I'll be talking to

movers and shakers in the world of wellness and beyond and people who have had their own interesting journey, whether it be physical, mental,

spiritual, or professional. Thanks for joining. Let's get into it.

Welcome to the podcast. I hope everyone is having a great week.

I'm not really going to do any kind of intro for this week's episode because it's really just a continuation of my

conversation with Alexis Haynes.

So if you didn't listen last week, you can go back and listen to that and in this episode we just delve a little deeper into

her recovery we talk about detoxing in jail in great detail.

She gets really candid.

We talk about relationships with older men.

We talk about, God, we just covered a lot of ground. So without further ado, Alexis Haynes. Is there a moment like when you think about your sobriety where you can remember that the

obsession was gone.

Yeah.

Because I know people in early sobriety ask me like when am I going to stop thinking about it?

And like people DM me all the time,

and they just can't wrap their head around a life

without drugs or alcohol.

You know, it's important to give hope where we can. Yeah. I feel really fortunate that, you know, and I don't know how else to say this to people because I feel like

when I talk about spirituality everybody shuts down.

You know, like that they have to go to church or whatever, but when I really, so I did the steps which were great and you know and I no longer I don't even go to

a meeting anymore I don't even go to AA. I haven't in years and I feel better.

Don't take advice from me.

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