What happens when the “successful” life you built starts to feel like a prison made of your own numbness?

In Episode 74 of Hear Where You Belong, Alexis Leigh courageously pulls back the curtain on a childhood shattered by her mother’s—she was sick, then addicted, then gone when Alexis was only 12. Like so many of us, Alexis did what kids do: she packed the grief away so she could survive.

But buried pain doesn’t stay quiet forever.

At 38, a voice in the woods whispered, “It’s time.”

Time to feel.

Time to dig.

Time to wake up the parts of herself that had gone to sleep with the pain—the writer, the singer, the dancer, the woman who could finally belong to herself.

In this raw, tender conversation you’ll discover:

✨ Why numbing pain also numbs joy (and how to get both back)

✨ The moment Alexis realized she was the community she’d been waiting for

✨ How facing decades of grief actually set her free from codependency and control

✨ The gentle Zen reminder “Not always so” that keeps her grounded in every season

If you’ve ever felt lonely in a crowded room, numb in a “perfect” life, or terrified that feeling the old pain will destroy you—this episode is proof that the opposite is true.

Pain isn’t the enemy.

It’s the portal.

Hit play and step through with us. Your fully alive life is waiting on the other side. ❤️

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