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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'm someone who can move really easily through a lot of space just mostly because I'm a light

skinned black woman with like green eyes and like now blonde hair that I'd change out and maybe

sometimes I'll be pink but whatever today it's blonde. And I think to myself like I have brown

skinned friends or dark skinned friends who like might not be able to move the way I get to move

through the corporate ladder or the corporate structure space or even just like the posh elements

of society like as a whole and being able to recognize that even too like even in blackness

layers of privilege. That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Lurie's McMillian.

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journalist and editor at Refinery29. Lurie's runs Refinery29's unbothered Instagram account,

which is a page that empowers strong millennial black women just like her. I found out about

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