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About Me — Alexis Behrend
Mother, author, poet, educator, escapee. Obsessed with finding ease in relationships, health, wellbeing and the juggling of life.
Hello Medium Siblings!
I hail from the United Kingdom as you’ll probably note from my weird spellings and quaint little phrases.
I write under a pseudonym because I run a few businesses and have a madcap family and psycho ex-husband, who while they are all wonderful inspiration for my tales and articles, would never be grateful to know that I let out all my frustrations and stress so freely and with such bare-knuckle honesty.
My goal on Medium is to help fellow travellers on the path to self-fulfilment with the benefit of my experience and research into self-improvement, either with helpful articles or inspiring tales and poetry. Whatever takes my fancy on any given day once I’ve escaped the rat run for a few minutes.
I have wonderful grown-up children and a baby granddaughter who I adore and encourages me, before she’s even learnt to speak, to keep going with my writing goals even when no one reads my output at first.
I now have an adoring husband who has been and continues to work tirelessly to make up for a lifetime of, let’s say, ‘material’ for my books. He has incredible children and grandchildren too who bring light to my life and whom I…