Alexis Leigh shares her powerful journey from living what appeared to be a perfect life to confronting childhood trauma and finding true purpose through writing her book “Pain is a Portal to Beauty.”
• Hearing a voice in the woods telling her, “If you die today, your life will have been a tragedy,” became her pivotal turning point
• Recognizing how childhood trauma with her mother’s death from addiction and abandonment created deep-seated patterns in her adult relationships
• Understanding how coping mechanisms like achievement and people-pleasing serve to avoid confronting buried pain
• Learning to validate ourselves rather than seeking external validation from partners or others
• Discovering hidden parts of ourselves (creativity, strength, joy) that emerge after facing our deepest wounds
• Breaking generational trauma cycles by healing our own wounds through journaling and internal dialogue
• Finding the courage to let go of what no longer serves us, even when it feels safe
• Trusting our inner wisdom rather than constantly seeking answers outside ourselves
If this episode has touched you, find Alexis Leigh at alexisleigh.com and pick up her book “Pain is a Portal to Beauty” to continue your own healing journey.
Transcript:
Speaker 1:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt or worry and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, sylvia Worsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, sylvia Worsham.
Speaker 2:
Hey Y-Bringers, it’s Sylvia Worsham. Welcome to Released Out Revealed Purpose. And today is Alexis Lee. She wrote the most amazingly impactful book called Pain is a Portal to Beauty. Oh, my goodness, I started to read the book the day I received it it was a Monday. I did not put it down. I read the whole thing from start to finish within three days because I’m a busy mom and I’m chauffeuring people around and got so much going on. But on every single free moment I had I could not tear my eyes away from the words on that page. It was like Alexis had like taken a peek into my soul, into my innermost being, and just kind of written about it. I felt so seen, so understood. It was so healing for me for that whole week.
Speaker 2:
There was a part in the book where she talks about how she got triggered by her partner, something he said and she calmly talked to herself and her little identity, her 11-year-old child that had been wounded long ago and was scared, and she just kind of gave herself validation. She said I didn’t need my kind of gave herself validation. She said I didn’t need my partner to give me validation. I could do that for me, and it just everything in my mind. That missing piece of the puzzle that I’d been praying to God for suddenly went click and out came all the training I had ever received. That God was like. I told you. You’ve been taught this before Like. Did I need to send Alexis to you to finally break you free from this? Evidently yes, and so I’m grateful that I have the author of this amazing book in front of me Without further ado. Alexis, thank you so much for joining us on Release that Reveal Purpose.
Speaker 3:
Oh my gosh, Sylvia, what a a wonderful introduction. Thank you for having me today.
Speaker 2:
And I can tell you that this has been by far the most impactful book. I’ve read the whole year and I’ve read quite a few books. Tell us your amazing story of transformation a few books.
Speaker 3:
Tell us your amazing story of transformation. Yeah, I had a pretty lovely life from the outside. I had a great education, a wonderful husband, a son that was healthy and happy, a good family, great friends, good career I mean just had all the checkboxes that I would have hoped for in my life, and I wasn’t totally happy. I knew that I had all the goodness, so I should be happy, but I still wanted more love and connection and meaning in my life and really I think thought, okay, well, I shouldn’t want that. This is what I have and I should be grateful, right? That was really the message that I took in is that you should be grateful for what you have.
Speaker 3:
And then one day I was walking in the woods and I heard a voice that said if you die today, your life will have been a tragedy. And it just stopped me in my tracks and, just, you know, shine the light on how desperately sad I really was underneath it all. So I think, looking back, really I was cobbling it together, keeping it together as well as I could, but because of some childhood trauma that I had not really unpacked, I was really deeply sad and deeply alone. So that was the moment that really brought to me the reality of my situation, helped me see it clearly and started unraveling my life so that I could build a different one.
Speaker 2:
We all go through those turning points, don’t we? I mean, there are major, pivotal moments in our life and we have choices. We can either stay exactly where we’re at, which is people call it the comfort zone, my husband calls it the misery zone. You’re miserable, you’re miserable and you want to stay in your misery. I found that so empowering that you heard a voice. I heard several voices in several pivotal moments of my life and I had choices to make. So tell us what happened after that voice? What started to unravel? How did you unpack all of this?
Speaker 3:
Well, I think again, I had been going my ex-husband now and I had been going to therapy and that was the big, that was the most important relationship, of course, with my son, but in terms of helping us relive our childhood stuff, our, our partners, really are that proxy for us, and so I had been very unhappy in our relationship and but. But I loved him and I knew he loved me and we had a son and we wanted to stay together, and so I really hoped that someday it would get better, that someday something would click. And we had been together for, at that time, 17 years, so it had been a long time, and this voice just showed me what was true that what I was doing wasn’t working. If I died that day, it wouldn’t be a life that I could have been glad for or proud of, and so it just clicked things into place where stop living for something that may or may not happen and actually, if you’re honest with yourself, probably won’t happen. It hasn’t changed for a long time, so there’s not really a reason to believe that it will change. It just kind of forced me to become more honest about what was going on, so I lost patience for things that I would have tolerated before. You know, okay, yes, we’ll fix this. No, we actually we’ve said we’d fix this for years and we haven’t fixed it. You know, let’s, let’s just start. I mean, I just started saying things like square peg, round hole. This is not working. Let’s just become honest about that and then we can see what our options are. But if we’re not honest, then we don’t know what. We can’t find our way forward.
Speaker 3:
So my relationship with my husband started to unravel more and more. We separated and ultimately did decide to divorce, and then relationships with my family also just kind of blew up. At the same time, Friendships fell away. I started letting go of my career, which I liked, but it’s not filling my heart. So just little by little, I was willing to let go of this life because it was not the right life for me.
Speaker 3:
I didn’t know what was next. It was terrifying, but I could no longer continue in that way, and part of it was and I mentioned this in the book part of it was that I knew, for whatever reason, I knew I had to start digging out my childhood pain and as I started intentionally grieving that, I saw this trajectory from my grandfather, who died by suicide, to my mother, who was a drug addict and died a tragic death. They found her body in a field. To me, in my 40 years of heartache and loneliness to the life that would await my son, and I just saw this trajectory and thought, oh God, I have to. I have to change this, for me for sure, but also, you know, very poignantly, for my son. I had to change our trajectory so that he was not destined to follow in that line of legacy.
Speaker 2:
I’m totally. I can relate in so many ways, and I know most of the listeners will be able to relate in innumerable ways to what you just said, in that you want to break the generational cycle. Sometimes we don’t even know how and we’re so afraid of letting go of this illusion of control that we seemingly have because we really don’t have control over anything. When the pandemic hit, we finally realized control is just an illusion of the mind. We really didn’t have control and perfectionism. It’s the same kind of concept of the mind and perfectionism. It’s the same kind of concept of the mind and it does need.
Speaker 2:
You need to face how you got there and most people don’t want to do that no-transcript. Those memories that were so painful that you had pushed them down through achievement because you achieved so well. It was a way that you were avoiding your pain. But those little monsters, those identities, were inside of you, that inner voice that just kind of guided you throughout your life. So help us for those that are currently journeying through something similar. How do you give them the courage to say, hey, go and unpack this?
Speaker 3:
Well, you know, I think it’s so funny in the book I talk about hitting rock bottom and how I hit. I heard a voice. Another way to face our pain is, you know, when we hit rock bottom it’s a great. It’s a wonderful place to be because because it’s a place of rebirth, and it’s funny that somehow I don’t equate that voice as rock bottom.
Speaker 3:
For me to learn that my life was a tragedy. So I think you know, for me, I was willing to really open the doors to all of it, because my life was so clearly shown to me as a tragedy, as a failure, as not worth living, and so I had a lot of courage because I basically took everything away from me, so I had nothing left to lose. When you have that picture together and you have your marriage and you have your job and you have all these things in place, then it can be a lot scarier, and so there’s a bigger barrier to look at your pain. So, for me, having everything stripped away just took away those defenses and I was willing to look at it because that was the way forward, that was the only way forward, and it couldn’t get worse. If somebody is in that place, then I’ll they’ll just naturally find the courage to start looking at this stuff. If, if someone doesn’t yet have that courage and maybe hasn’t lost a lot of pieces of their life and not that they will, but if they’re not in that place then I think that we can take this, you know, one step at a time. You can take this in bite-sized, you know digestible pieces and if you’re wanting to just start to see what’s there, you know I was thinking about earlier about how I might be in an exercise class where you use, you know, a ballet bar or something to prop yourself up, but it’s really for balance. You’re just using it for balance and you’re doing the work somewhere else in your body, but sometimes they have you lift up your hand to make sure you haven’t now started to lean on it.
Speaker 3:
So if you have, if you’re like I don’t think I have a lot going on, but I want to check it out, then you could give up coffee for a week. Right, you can turn off screens for a week. You can not do wine for a week. You can start to shut down some of these things. That may be coping mechanisms, but you don’t really know until you take it away.
Speaker 3:
What happens is that we have these parts of ourselves that are so hurting and before we even know what they’re hurting, for our coping mechanisms are so quick they jump in before we even have a chance to feel it. So if somebody is wanting to just start to gently, start to look at some things, to find quiet in their life for a day, a few days a week, we’ll start to give them some messages that and they’ll they’ll be able to again. You can just take as much as you’re willing to take, but they’ll they’ll be able to again. You can just take as much as you’re willing to take, but they’ll begin to discover some things, and, and what I will say is that there’s a reason why we don’t look at this stuff. There’s a reason why we cope. So anyone who starts to be brave and starts to peel away some of these layers, to look underneath, just make sure you have the support and resources you need.
Speaker 3:
For me, stand-up comedy became really important part of my spiritual journey. I never liked stand-up comedy before, but I needed to offset the grief. Work. You need the laughter and the joy being in nature, movement, whether it’s dance or exercise. Those things really help support us as we do this work.
Speaker 2:
I can completely agree with you, and there was a part of me when my father received a terminal diagnosis. Now, my father and I, we had a fairly fractured relationship for a while, and you heard the voice in 2020, so did I. My voice got really loud in 2020, saying it’s time to write your book. Trust me, it’s time. It’s time to write your book. Trust me, it’s time. And it was over and it was relentless. It would not let me go.
Speaker 3:
And.
Speaker 2:
I had heard that voice before. God had been prompting me to write this book for many years and I had told him no. I had told the maker of the universe that he was wrong, that I didn’t have what it took to be an author. And he can say and he stayed persistent with me and finally, in 2020, I was like enough, you’re going to do this because you’re running out of time. And what I didn’t see was that four years later, my father, who I had a very fractured relationship with, was going to pass away from a tumor he developed due to his exposure of Agent Orange in Vietnam. That class I was drafted around 67, rather not 67, 69 timeframe ended up with meningomas and Parkinson’s disease, and they had been followed by a commission in the Veterans Administration. And my father just he and I had a major trauma when we were young.
Speaker 2:
When I was young, I was seven years old and we had been on a family trip and I had put my hands on my hips because my father had said hey, we’re going to get you guys up at 5.30 in the morning. We’re going to go see some snow outside of Mexico City. We were from Texas, we’d never seen snow before. I was really excited. And there’s three of us. I’m the oldest of three kids, my brother’s the middle child and my sister was five years younger than me and we went with extended family and we played until our hands were raw in the snow, whatever. And when my little sister got cold she put her hands in her pockets Pretty natural thing. My mom had left the summit long before she had gotten busy, so she had all the way at the bottom of the summit, but we were on top with my dad and some family, and when my sister started to toggle her way down to where dad was she, her feet got tangled up and she started to roll down the mountain and hit her head. And because we were at such high altitude, she was two years old, I was seven and we had come from Texas, so we’re at sea level, so already the pressure is different.
Speaker 2:
And my father, being a Vietnam surgeon and having come from a highly abusive household, turned to me very angrily and said if your sister dies, it will be your fault. And I remember just like everything changed in an instant and that safety that you need from a parent, that one fuzzy that was gone, like with one memory. Now you had a traumatic, truly traumatic thing happen to you that your mom was only supposed to be gone for three weeks and ended up never coming back. So you had abandonment like huge abandonment issues with your mother. That’s highly, highly traumatic. A lot of people listening on the shows have told me we’ve had similar circumstances, the people you’ve interviewed. That’s why I was so excited to interview you, because I know that with my just my traumatic experience on the mountain, it completely changed who I became.
Speaker 2:
I now have identified that seven-year-old anxious child who’s a people pleaser, who pursues her husband when there’s a conflict because she wants to make things right so badly that she makes mistakes. She conflict because she wants to make things right so badly that she makes mistakes. She doesn’t know how to make things right. She feels responsible for everyone’s happiness. You and I both know that that’s not true. That’s how the mind protects at the moment of trauma and that’s what we have to kind of face to be able to heal and have way more joy. That’s why I loved your title too Pain is a portal to beauty. It truly is, but you got to be willing to face and go through that pain right. So tell us more about how you went through that pain and why you decided to call this Pain is your Portal to Beauty. What beauty did you see?
Speaker 3:
on the other side. Well, I mean, I have stuff to talk about from the book, but we talked earlier about how we’re call this. Pain. Is your portal to beauty. What beauty did you see on the other? Well, I I mean, I have, I have stuff to talk about from the book, but we talked earlier about how we’re going to let this conversation be guided where it will. I just I just wanted to kind of um, first of all, I’m so sorry for that experience for your sweet seven-year-old and your sister. Um, I I’ve had so many layers to unpack about my mother’s departure, right, because it’s like she was my mom.
Speaker 3:
I loved her more than anything in the world, so I lost her. So that’s one piece of grief. There’s the other piece of grief, which is the neglect that I felt, like I was all alone and isolated and had to take care of myself and felt so much pressure and felt crushed by the responsibility, and so there’s that piece, and then there’s, you know, one thing that I’ve uncovered more recently is something maybe along the lines of what you were saying, where there’s a piece of me that I didn’t know until just in the last. This summer I’ve been unpacking this. There’s a piece of me that is afraid that and this was, like you know, having conflicts in my life and saying, okay, why am I triggered by this? Let’s see if I can talk with my part. So sometimes I’ll type I journal, I type on my computer for journaling, and I’ll type to a part and I’ll say, hey, can you tell me why this is so painful? You know you felt so triggered when someone was unhappy with you or seemed displeased with you or something like that. So what’s that about? So instead of going to solve it with, like you were saying earlier, instead of going to solve it with my partner, with whoever this person is I know it’s about me in this part that’s wanting to be seen. So I’ll go kind of type back and forth and this part will say, well, da, da, da. And we kind of go layer and layer and layer. So at the bottom of it there’s some huge bombshell and for me was I’m scared that my mother didn’t love me. So my story has always been my mother loved me for sure, right, I was a lovable child and she was addicted and depressed and those were not about me. But there’s a part of me that deep down was afraid that my mother left because I deserved it and that maybe even you know, maybe even I killed my mother because I was too much or whatever it was. So it’s this very terrifying thing to acknowledge. So that’s why it’s buried so deeply.
Speaker 3:
But what started to happen was once I sat with that possibility. I’m not saying it’s true, but I just sat with the pain of that possibility. All of a sudden, my people pleasing had a whole new framework. I mean, I’ve worked on people pleasing and boundaries for years, but this is like you know, you go to these subtler and subtler, subtler levels. And so this for me was going oh gosh. Well, if I can, if I can tolerate the possibility that my mom didn’t love me and died because she didn’t love me, do I care if my partner doesn’t like the way I did, whatever? No, I mean, what happens is beauty is that we become free.
Speaker 3:
In these ways, where we have been locked up, I have to protect myself, I have to make sure everybody else likes me in order to avoid seeing the truth that my mom may not have loved me. But once I see it, once I’m willing to sit with that possibility, I don’t care what anybody thinks, and it’s going to take time to rewire. You know I’ve been wired this way my whole life, so it’s not that it’s an immediate impact. It takes time for integration once you have these huge aha moments. But for me there’s such the beauty.
Speaker 3:
There’s beauty like I didn’t know I was a writer and one day I woke up and this book came out of me. So there’s there’s that kind of beauty which is like I’m a writer, I was a writer and one day I woke up and this book came out of me. So there’s that kind of beauty which is like I’m a writer, I’m a dancer, I’m a singer. I didn’t know all these creative things about me. How incredible is that. But there’s also so much beauty in getting to know ourselves and getting to free ourselves in ways that we have been locked up because we’re avoiding this pain. That’s down deep.
Speaker 2:
And I tell you, like when I read in your book, I didn’t know I was a burlesque dancer and so I was like I started. I burst out laughing because there’s parts of us that we don’t acknowledge for so long. We’re such nurturers as women, we take care of everybody and we’re always looking out and we forget to take care of ourselves. Looking out and we forget to take care of ourselves, and we need to do that in order to be there 100, 150% for our family, because that’s the way we want to show up. And I just, based on your history and just how much achievement you had, I knew that that was important to you to show up fully for your son. And what I loved as you progressed through the book and, by the way, the book was like I could not stop reading it. You have a beautiful talent of engaging readers and just pulling them in. I didn’t want to leave your presence. It was so incredible. So I know you’re definitely in your divine purpose. I mean, I feel the Holy Spirit. He’s confirming everything I’m saying is meant for you of that. This is what you’re meant to do. This is how you’re meant to lead others is through the written word, and I’m sure you have more books inside of you, because we all do. We just sometimes are afraid, like how much more can I do of this right are people are going to get tired of me. That’s always the voice of doubt, the inner critic that can creep up. But, like you and I both know, as long as we talk to them and make them feel safe because as women, that’s our, one of our greatest emotional needs is to be safe, to feel safe, and when we can do that for ourselves and and takes the pressure off another human being, because the truth is, happiness lies within us all and it’s our responsibility and we can’t put that on another human being. They won’t be able ever to fulfill that for us as as much as we can’t put that on another human being. They won’t be able ever to fulfill that for us as much as we can for ourselves or God can for us as well. That’s a different relationship we have. For me, once I wrote the book, aside from having the fractured relationship really just completely dissolve. After that I the last four years of my father’s life, we were the bestest of friends and I couldn’t have done that had I not been obedient and done the the work, rolled up my sleeves and actually sat there.
Speaker 2:
There was something else you mentioned in your book that really caught my attention. You said that when you sat down and reflected on your own, without the help of therapists or anybody, that’s when you had the most aha moments. That really resonated with me because God reminded me Remember the book. You sat and you reflected. You didn’t have a coach and therapist guiding you through this book. I guided you through this book. I showed you the aha moments, and that’s where we forget. As women, we’re very feeling based. Our intuition is such a beautiful gift within us. It’s really left untagged, wouldn’t you agree? I mean, have you encountered that with people you’ve talked to?
Speaker 3:
Yeah, no, I mean, I think that it has been and it continues to be a journey of trusting myself and, of course, by saying trusting myself, trusting the wisdom and love that flows through me, from beyond me, I think it is so my nature to look outside myself for the answer and that always causes I mean, I know to do that less and less, but I still do it, and it always causes confusion and suffering. And whenever I come back to me and we haven’t talked about this, but I did a lot of my healing, ultimately I found my way to doing it with psychedelics and with therapists who oversaw those sessions, but all of the wisdom that I accessed from those experiences were to come back to me.
Speaker 3:
And even I’ve. I’ve now stopped doing that work, at least for the moment. But the messaging was you don’t need to come back, because as long as you look outside yourself, you’ll never be able to access what’s inside yourself. So there was an element of I’ve got I would did all of this work and now it’s time to find it in me and to stop doing it, even with the psychedelics and the plant medicines. So, yeah, I think that it’s such.
Speaker 3:
All of these things to me are shocking. People are out there shouting this stuff in the mountaintops. It’s not that the information is not there, but I hadn’t come across it, I hadn’t internalized it. And from a as a woman, I always as a woman and with my background and you know I’m from Texas as well, you know, growing up as a Christian, having my mother die, like all of those things make me look outside and say, oh God, how do I take care of everybody else? But that comes from that, oh God, energy, right, it comes from fear and obligation.
Speaker 3:
And so to have these medicines tell me to come back to me, to stop looking outside myself was a little bit like wait. But what’s going to happen to everybody else? And what happened was ultimately by bringing my energy back to me and healing myself. Then I’m filled with love, and then what I can do for others is something on an infinitely higher level. Right, then the love just spills out of me, whereas before, again, it was kind of like this illusion of control and coming from fear how can I make sure people don’t die? Now it’s I’m filled with love. I see how strong I am, I see how much I have within. I see that in everybody else.
Speaker 2:
And how can I just be there in that beauty with other people, like flow with the wave of going against the wave, which is our tendency at times when we’re faced with pain and fear and we don’t want to face it, it feels so hard at times You’re forcing this love out of you when it flows freely from the abundance we receive from in my case from god. You know, not everybody uses that terminology because they’re they’re in different parts of their journey and that’s okay, we all have. Some of us have grown up I grew up catholic and they taught more about the religion than they did relationship with oneself and with him, which is what Jesus taught when he was here on earth. He taught mostly about relationship with God and with others. That was the gist of his ministry. And the love like just love me and love others, that’s it. That’s the gist of it Love and lead with love. And what does that look like? And I’ll tell you my parenting has gotten better since reading your book. And let me explain Because, in talking to my younger version, I can identify now with my 10-year-old daughter in a way that I couldn’t before, because at seven I was told to be an adult.
Speaker 2:
I was now responsible for someone’s death if they died. Now she didn’t die. I emotionally died that day. I spiritually died that day. I died mentally that day. She survived it. I clearly did not. And it really impacted for decades, alexis, not just my relationship with my father, my relationship with men, my relationship with with my siblings. I became like the unbearable older sister that would, was I had to control my circumstances or someone was going to die on my watch Right. And that’s the thing that now I’m just so blessed that James brought you to me, and I know that that was God bringing you to me because I had been praying for that missing piece. I could not understand why. I argued to be wrong. I rejected the truth. I did all these things and then when I read your book and everything went click and I realized that my teenage bully self, the one that was a warrior, came out every time I was in conflict with my husband. I rejected the truth because in high school I would share the truth and I was bullied for it, and I learned at an early age to not speak the truth. The truth got me in trouble. The truth got me bullied. Who would want that Right? So the fear will like, cower you down. So now I want to rejoice in the truth and I want to start to face it.
Speaker 2:
But the first step is to actually acknowledge that I had pain, because it pushed it down those years. I thought I had overcome them. I clearly had not, because it was starting to cause immeasurable pain in my marriage. And the last fight my husband and I had, it was very evident to me I needed to get to the root cause of that and so, interestingly enough, we had the fight that weekend and I got your book on Monday. That’s not a coincidence, alexis not in my book Because I’ve been praying and praying and praying and God had been reaching me and trying to reach me through various people, and finally you were the one that broke through with your amazing book.
Speaker 2:
So you’ve impacted my life. You’ve impacted my daughter’s life, my son. I’m so grateful to you. I will never be able to repay you for what you’ve gifted me. No, you gifted me and the last piece I’ve been looking for for years and, like you, I’ve been training under the sun. I’ve been in therapy. I’m a life coach myself. I’ve been trained by cognitive behavioral therapists. I’ve been trained across the board neuro-linguistic programming. I’ve done all the work.
Speaker 2:
I had never, ever understood why I couldn’t stand down in a conflict until your book came along, why I had been such a people pleaser my whole life. I had pursued him. I had, he was flooded, he couldn’t talk to me, he was trying to like, not offend me and I kept trying to make things right and I couldn’t understand. And since then, like he’ll say things, and normally those things would have triggered me, alexis, and they don’t anymore because I get to talk to me, I get, I sat with her and I made her feel safe again because I could do that. I could could tell her it’s okay, he’s not going to abandon you, he loves you. That’s the truth.
Speaker 2:
You need to face the truth too now.
Speaker 2:
Look at the truth.
Speaker 2:
Look at the evidence in front of you.
Speaker 2:
Don’t look at it through the lens of your fear of losing your sister. Look at it through my lens. I’m an adult now and I can see clearly now and and I know what you’re feeling then, because I was you and I was there with you and I know that all you needed was a parent to tell you that everything was going to be okay, that your sister was going to be okay, because she did. She survived it. She was fine.
Speaker 2:
I know that my father acted. He didn’t mean to say that his fear said that it was a habit that he had seen modeled from his abusive father. And had I not looked at his past and I understood it, I would have never healed myself. Yeah, and so I am so grateful to you today. Today, I was so excited to interview you because of how much impact in the last two weeks your book has made in my life just in the last two weeks and I now have courage to move forward on something that God has been prompting me to do since March of this year, because of your book.
Speaker 1:
So thank you.
Speaker 2:
Really from the bottom of my heart. My daughter thanks you, my son thanks you, my husband thanks you. Gosh Sylvia.
Speaker 3:
I’m so moved by what you shared, Gosh.
Speaker 2:
Sylvia, I’m so moved by what you shared. I hope you continue writing, alexis, because this is, by far, a very big skill. You have An enormous gift in the written word and to reach people. I hope you get on stages, I hope you share your story so that people can have the courage to face their pain and to see the beauty on the other side. If I wanted to reach you and I wanted to get you on my stage, our stages across country, how can I reach you, alexis?
Speaker 3:
Well, my website is alexisleecom and is really starting out, so I’m doing podcasts now. But I’m reachable. I’m happy to hear from you anytime and anybody, but right now it’s just the website.
Speaker 2:
Hey, that’s a good starting point. Some people don’t even have a website. That way, people can reach you and say, hey, I want to get your book. I want you to come do a reading. You know, you never know. Because it starts with faith. You know when you can’t see your path before you. But it starts with a voice in 2020 in a forest, and that’s all it took for you. And if you can do it, so can I, and so can the next person behind me that is needing some extra help. Any last words of encouragement you want to share with the listeners who’ve released our Reveal Purpose?
Speaker 3:
Oh, I just, you know, just a quick reflection on what you just shared. This is what I find so beautiful about this is that we have these parts of ourselves that make us act in a way that we don’t understand and we judge. We feel judged for them, and so when you go toward the pain and then you find, oh, it’s a sweet, it’s a sweet young part of me, then all of a sudden that judgment dissolves into compassion and love and it’s so relieving. Everything on this journey has just been so relieving. It’s like, oh, there’s not something wrong with me, there’s just more love, and so I would really wish that for anybody who has these pieces that are hidden. They’re really beautiful pieces if you’re willing to start to unpack them. So thank you, sylvia, for sharing and for having me today.
Speaker 2:
Oh, it was truly my honor to have you on, an honor to have read your book, to have allowed it to sit with me and to help me heal those parts that had been longing to be healed forever, and now I can move forward in my next part of my journey. So it was truly my honor to have you on the podcast and for the listeners of Released Out Revealed Purpose remember Matthew 5.14 to always be the light. You have such a beautiful light inside of you, and if you have an inkling, if you heard a voice inside of you say something, listen to that voice and face your pains and allow it to be the portal to the most beautiful light inside of you you’ve ever experienced and the most beautiful joy you can ever have. So have a wonderful and blessed week, stay safe. Love y’all. Bye now. Bye now.
Speaker 1:
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