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Hi, I’m ALEXANDRA BENCE

For as long as I’ve known, I’ve always had a connection to a higher consciousness. Over the past few years, I’ve been on a path towards discovering how to use my gifts to help others.


My STORY

 

The Beginning

So where does my story start? Growing up I had a really difficult childhood as my parents were holding onto large amounts of trauma and couldn’t give me the love I needed. At the age of four, my parents brought home our first puppy who I found an instant connection with and she gave me the love and joy I was longing for. This is what inspired my passion to work with animals and help people heal their trauma.

During this time, I had many vivid dreams which gave me direction and showed me my psychic and healing abilities. During one of the dreams, I saw green and blue sparkles coming out of my hands which I later discovered was a message that I have healing abilities.

As I got older, my fascination with the dream world deepened, and I received many premonitions about my life and other people’s lives. After I graduated, I followed my intuition and moved to the United Kingdom to pursue my career as a Veterinary Surgeon. I really enjoyed this career path as I was able to help heal animals and it gave me stability in my life that I never had before. I also found that clients felt really comfortable to share some of their most deepest and vulnerable parts of themselves with me and also felt safe to share their issues with me. I felt privileged to be an ear to those clients who really needed one as well as provide comfort in their time of need.

This deep connection and sense of happiness I felt when I could help someone led me towards wanting to help heal people and this became a big part of my day. My consultations were meant to be 15 minutes but often were longer as I felt that those clients with problems were sent to me to help.

After quite a few years of being a Vet I loved my job, but I felt I gave so much of myself that I wasn’t practicing any self care practices which lead to me neglecting my own needs. I never even went overseas on holidays and in fact never really took a break. I often went 12 hours without eating food and never drunk water. One day whilst looking at the 4 white walls of my consultation room I thought there must be something more to life then this.


The Change

I decided from this point that I needed to look after myself as I was no good to anyone being burnt out. I decided to start travelling and went to many countries including Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Morocco, Switzerland and the list goes on. I was also introduced to a Brazilian dance called Forro which led me to spending a lot of time in Brazil and in fact initially I spent three months there. After visiting Brazil I developed a deep connection to the country. I felt people were really open and I connected with many spiritual people who gave me a lot of guidance. I loved their connection to mother earth and great amounts of wisdom that were in the tribes made me realise how much wisdom they hold. I wanted to know more about their traditions and I started to look into shamanism.

After returning from Brazil, I continued working as a vet and one day a client changed my life. She came into the consult room discussing Reiki. I had heard of Reiki when I was younger and in fact, went for a session but I never felt a calling until this day. I felt that I was being guided to learn this healing modality and shortly after, became a Reiki practitioner.

What happened next was quite unexpected but changed my life forever. I decided to go to Wales for some work and unfortunately found out whilst there that my Dad had terminal cancer. This was heart breaking and so unexpected and really broke my heart. After finding out this news, I returned to London to meet a friend for some comfort, but unfortunately that wasn’t to be because we decided to meet at Borough Market and became involved in the terrorist attack there.

All of this sent me to rock bottom and I struggled to even go to work. Unfortunately I wasn’t supported by my boss, who wouldn’t even give me a day off to help me cope with the situation. It was at this point I reaIly felt this was a sign from the universe to wake up and change my life. Shortly afterwards, I quit the job I was at and decided to travel back to Australia to spend time with my family. I felt this was such a wakeup call from the universe to change my life and start prioritising myself and my needs. I had a trip already booked to Brazil again and my Dad wanted me to go.


The Journey Forward

So I visited Brazil and went to a sacred ceremony in a magical place called Trancoso, in Bahia. Here I took the sacred plant medicine Ayahuasca tea, which is- made up of two plants and used extensively in the Amazonian tribes in South America. This plant helped me to undergo a deep internal mind set rewiring, an energetic expansion and a rewiring of stuck unconscious emotions amongst many other benefits. This changed my life and increased my psychic abilities so much that I used to see peoples faces at night before I went to sleep and I didn’t know who they were.

After this something shifted in me and although I loved being a vet I felt there was something more. I developed a passion for crystals and other healing modalities and I begun a journey of self healing and discovery. I would come home from work and need to read spiritual texts or connect with my spirit guides and this became my life outside work.

One day I kept getting the message “you need to be a shaman”. The message just kept coming so I contacted a friend who put me in touch with a spiritual group. Through this group I was able to undergo more healing and more spiritual development and it led to me meeting and working with some Mayan elders from Guatemala and the Huni Quin, a tribe from the Amazon.

From here the journey hasn’t stopped and I have continued to follow the guidance of spirit who has led me towards the healing modalities that I offer today.