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hero? Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of the Ignited Recovery Secrets podcast.

I'm Adjee Jaffe and I'm bringing you a really important conversation today of somebody who,

in a really, really similar way to maybe some of the ways that I talk about drug and alcohol,

recovery, addiction, and use has really turned the corner and looks at the same sort of issues

when it comes to eating disorder in a very unique, very, very interesting way.

And when we talk with Alexa, one of the things you can see right

off the bat is that whole fuck shame mentality, this entire idea of I'm going to own my past,

I'm going to own where I've been, and I'm not going to shy away from it. I'm not going to run

away from it, but instead what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn it into my power,

and I'm going to create a life that is centered out of the gifts and joy and lessons that I

learned from that so much so that this woman went from having an eating disorder

and being a professional dancer to making chocolate for a living. I don't know how you can

turn around an eating disorder more than that. Super

powerful story. You guys are going to love, love, love it. And what I want to kind of have you

guys line up as we start talking about and kind of preparing for thinking about as you listen to

the story is how can you implement the same sort of thing, right? How can you take something

like Alexa story, like mine and like Sophie's and all of us, you know, when we talk about kind of

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