I started healing work because I had a f*cked up relationship with food and exercise. I hated my body. All I wanted was to be like the tall “skinny” girls, but I had an athletic build, a short torso and did not have a thigh gap. So I dieted, I restricted my calories, I over-exercised. I was stuck in a cycle of binging and punishment.

And if there’s one thing I’ve learned from the last few years, it’s that there are so many women out there who are suffering daily from the same thing. Women who punish their body because it doesn’t look the way they want it to or because they’ve got some unresolved trauma in their past and turned to food to cope.

9/10 women do not like their body, and it’s no wonder.. Society paints this picture of the perfect body that women get lured into.

Today, I want to introduce you to my incredible guest on today’s ep, Alex Bynum. Alex is a professional energy healer who owns and operates Empowering Path. She’s passionate about spiritual transformation and she facilitates ancient healing modalities that have been around since the dawn of time. Alex’s disordered eating began when she was eight years old. In response to what was happening around her, she started to not eat regularly. By the time she hit college, she was suffering from anorexia and bulimia. Like so many of us, she tried everything she could think of to heal her relationship with food (therapists, programs, medicine, nutritionists) but nothing seemed to work.

By the time she found spiritual healing, she was highly skeptical that it would help her. It did.

Her healing journey began with a two-day workshop where she learned the rituals that helped her call in energy to listen, honor and live from the higher self. After the workshop in the toilet, Alex had her incredible spiritual awakening. She heard her higher self step in to help her break the bulimic cycle and felt freedom from food for the first time since she could remember.

Alex’s journey reminds us that not everyone is on the same path and we’re always on the journey that we’re meant to be. Spiritual healing can help us step into and honor our higher selves and our purpose.

To learn more about Alex go to Alex Bynum (@empoweringpath) • Instagram photos and videos - empoweringpath.com