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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 I was six months pregnant when my lawyer came up to me and said,

if you don't sign this plea right now, today we're going to trial and you will never get out of prison.

I'm like, well, what's the plea? He said, five years with 15 suspended in 40 years exposure,

which we don't have enough time to even explain. But I said, five years, I might get to know this

baby if I only have to serve five years. That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Jessica

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dot com and use code reality. So you guys have been asking me to have Jessica Kent on this podcast

for a while now. And I'm so glad that we did. You know, I was reflecting prior to my podcast episode

with her about why I think having this conversation is so important. And I think a big chunk of it is

that despite the fact that incarceration affects so many people in the United States,

we feel still like it's something dirty to talk about. I often hear when people talk about my story,

they talk about my addiction, they talk about my abuse, they talk about mental health and mental

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