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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?

Jane Elliott is similar to Robin DiAngelo, white woman doing racial justice work,

racial education work, and there's a clip where she's asking, you know, a room full of white people

in auditorium for someone to stand up or raise their hand if they would be happy to trade

lives with a black person in America. If they'd be happy to, you know, experience the way of life

of being a black person today and not a single person raised their hand. And I'd highly doubt that

it's single one of your listeners if you are a white woman listening that you would happily give up

being a white person today to be a black person. Pre-watching your George Floyd.

Highly doubt that. And there's a reason for that because you know deep down, you know, you might

have been sheltered, you've been conditioned, you've benefited, but you know that the way that

black people are treating this country is very different than how white people are treated.

That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Taylor Nolan. If you don't know Taylor,

she was on the bachelor and then she went on to be on paradise where I believe she walked away

engaged but is no longer. She's a therapist. She is training to be a sex therapist. And I'm lucky

enough to call her a friend a few months ago. Well, it was more than a few months ago because I've

been in my house for a few months, which made me think of that TikTok song. If you all just sing TikTok

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