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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?

Okay, we're doing a solo episode from my house. We're going to do a story time episode,

so there's no intro today, and hopefully my kids remain quiet as we work through this episode.

So a few weeks ago, I swear on my drives, when you guys drive, do you just ever get like

stream of consciousness where you're like, oh my god, like downloads from the universe?

That's me when I'm driving. So I had to pull over and stop driving, and I jumped on Instagram

live to talk about this story. And when I said it, I was like, oh my god, I've got to put this up

on the podcast because it is so powerful and profound. And so I decided to share it with you guys.

You know, my show, when I had my show, it was known for a lot of things, for the bling ring,

for my drug addiction, for the chaos, for the glamour, but also about the fact that we practiced

the secret, also known as law of attraction, or the science of mind. And you know, I was raised

in this philosophy. It's interesting. I talk about my mom's spiritual bypassing and how many

in the spiritual community and a lot of people that I even follow online dive into these more

new age or Eastern modalities like meditation and and Buddhist practices and raky and soundbath

because it does. It makes you feel better, but they're not really doing the deep work. And that

pretty much summed my mom up. But I want to talk to you guys about how we did attract the show

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