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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?

I love what you said about the intention is not to get then addicted to AA and have that be the

thing. Same thing with a plant medicine or anything really because from my perspective where

we have come into incarnation, into physical form, to evolve in this lifetime, to grow, to attract

whatever our spiritual curriculum is into our life in order to serve as catalysts for our evolution

and for our growth. And so, if we become either attached to dependent fixed on or stagnating in

anything, that can become its own catalyst. Like what I just heard you say is noticing an AA that

it was like, wow, like I'm noticing this, this isn't actually, people are kind of staying in the same

the sameness of it. And it really is a from my own personal experience. It was very effective for

that first for me personally, that first way. That was a quick clip from this week's episode.

I just wanted to say hi, fam. I'm just going to do a quick intro for you guys today.

I'm really looking forward to you guys hearing this episode a few weeks ago. I don't know when

this is going to come out, but we had Angelica aka Angel on the podcast and you guys loved that

episode. It's titled Turning Your Karma Into Your Dharma. If you want to go back and listen.

And we cover all things spirituality. And now I'm having her friend Zahara on the podcast today to

dive even deeper into alternative healing and spiritual practices, which included a very

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