# What if the pain you’ve been avoiding is actually pointing you toward healing? with Alexis Leigh | EP 472

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Podcast: [Grief 2 Growth](https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728)
Published: 2026-01-27T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth, Brian Smith is joined by writer and seeker Alexis Lee, author of Pain Is a Portal to Beauty, for a courageous conversation about grief, trauma, and radical self-healing. Alexis shares the moment that changed her life — hearing a voice while walking in the woods that told her her life would have been a tragedy if it ended that day. That message became the beginning of a profound journey into grief she had buried since childhood, including the l...

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