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Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,

where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.

Whether you're on the road to recovery,

seeking self-care techniques for surviving the capitalist machine,

or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,

we're serving up the ultimate truth.

Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.

So are you ready to recover from reality?

So this is going to be a really challenging episode to record.

For many different reasons.

Um, I think the biggest is that I didn't think I'd get here,

and I know that this sounds so stupid,

but I thought that I was stronger than this,

but it's like, you gotta drop all that Alexis,

because that's just ego and other bullshit.

But this last year has been really challenging and really trying.

It's interesting because a couple of weeks ago,

I posted that New York Times article that went viral

about how this pandemic has really left behind mothers.

And so many people and in my messages and in my DMs

wrote to me saying that they really felt that,

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