Alexia McLeod

Alexia McLeod ✨ Licensed Mental Health Therapist | Mindset Coach ✨
🌸 I help people break free from mental struggle 🌸
Lets Talk: https://alexiamcleod.com/

I am the President and CEO of Therapeutic Center for Hope, Inc., a premier psychotherapy practice that conducts therapy in the comfort of your own home. My goal is to provide Solution Focused and Goal Oriented therapy tailored for your specific needs. Specialties range from adoption and home study services to postpartum therapy, infertility issues, depression, grief, adjustment, anxiety, divorce, and marriage/ family issues. I am a licensed and dedicated therapist, giving feedback while being careful not to impose my own values or opinions. Only you hold the answers to your success. You are the expert. I serve as the tool that will assist for you to access the potential you desire. Your success is up to you. I consider it a privilege to be a part of your decision to improve your life.

11/28/2025

let’s tell the truth — avoidants don’t miss you in the way you hope.
They miss you in the way a starving person misses food they once refused to eat.
Avoidants are not heartless. They’re afraid.
Afraid of needing, afraid of being known, afraid of losing control.
Their entire nervous system was trained to equate closeness with danger.
So when love shows up — soft, steady, consistent — their body goes into alarm.
They don’t reject you; they reject the vulnerability you represent.
When you were there, your love felt like pressure.
But once you’re gone, that pressure becomes presence —
the one thing they can finally feel when they no longer have to manage it.
They start to miss the emotional grounding you brought,
the mirror that showed them a version of themselves that felt human again.
But here’s the hardest truth:
They’re not missing you.
They’re missing the regulation you provided — the safety you embodied.
Because for many avoidants, connection feels like oxygen they’ve spent their whole lives holding their breath to avoid.
The moment they start missing you is not a love story.
It’s a reckoning.
It’s the moment their coping mechanism collides with their loneliness.
It’s the silence revealing what distance can’t protect them from — themselves.
Here’s your work:
Don’t wait for their realization to validate your worth.
Their missing you isn’t an invitation — it’s information.
It tells you they felt something real, but couldn’t stay long enough to nurture it.
And that your healing now depends on not confusing remorse with readiness.
Let them miss you.
Let them face the emptiness their avoidance created.
And let that be their lesson — while peace becomes yours.
Follow this page — because no one’s breaking down love, fear, and healing like this,
and the kind of love you want starts with awareness.

11/28/2025

You don’t need to rush your healing, your goals, or your growth — you just need to make sure you’re moving in the right direction.
Speed is what the world praises.
But direction — that’s what keeps you aligned.
Because fast progress toward the wrong thing will still leave you empty.
Slow doesn’t mean stagnant.
It means intentional.
It means you’re taking the time to build something that actually lasts.
The truth is, sustainable change rarely feels exciting at first.
It’s quiet. Steady. Often unseen.
But slow progress is still progress — and it’s the kind that transforms you from the inside out.
So stop comparing your timeline to anyone else’s.
You’re not late — you’re being thorough.
And while everyone else is sprinting toward shortcuts, you’re building something real.
Keep moving — even if it’s slow.
Because direction will always matter more than speed.
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11/27/2025

When they say, “I just need space,” it sounds logical. Calm. Mature.
But beneath that statement is something much deeper — a nervous system that’s learned love equals danger.
Avoidant partners don’t retreat because they don’t care.
They retreat because care itself feels unbearable.
You see, connection for them has always been conditional.
Love meant performance — being useful, quiet, strong, or self-contained.
So when someone truly sees them — when love starts to touch the unhealed parts they’ve worked their whole life to hide — it activates every alarm they have.
Their body doesn’t say, “This is love.”
It says, “This is exposure.”
And exposure feels like shame.
So they pull back.
They intellectualize their emotions.
They convince themselves they “just need space” when what they actually need is safety in closeness.
They think distance will give them peace, but peace can’t exist where fear still runs the show.
Here’s the insight no one talks about:
Avoidants don’t fear you. They fear dependency.
They fear the grief of needing something they can’t control.
Because to need is to risk losing —
and that loss, in their history, has always come with pain.
If you’re loving someone avoidant, understand this —
you can’t logic them into safety.
You can’t love them enough to erase their fear.
What you can do is refuse to abandon yourself trying to prove you’re not a threat.
And if you’re the avoidant one reading this —
your healing starts the moment you stop equating intimacy with danger.
The space you crave isn’t outside the relationship — it’s inside you.
It’s the inner safety you build when you realize love doesn’t have to cost you freedom.
Because “space” that protects your fear isn’t safety — it’s isolation.
And the love you truly want won’t survive until you learn to stay when it’s safe to stay.
Follow this page — because no one’s breaking down love, fear, and healing like this,
and the kind of love you want starts with awareness.

11/27/2025

Success without peace will never feel like enough.
You can hit every milestone, make the money, earn the title — and still feel empty if you’re living for approval instead of alignment.
Because real fulfillment doesn’t come from applause. It comes from peace.
We’re taught to chase “success” as if it guarantees happiness.
But success is external — it’s what people see.
Satisfaction is internal — it’s what your soul feels when you’re being honest about what actually matters to you.
You don’t need to impress anyone to live a meaningful life.
You just need to wake up and feel content with who you are, not just what you produce.
The most beautiful version of success is quiet:
Peace of mind.
Aligned purpose.
A heart that’s not constantly trying to prove its worth.
So stop running toward someone else’s version of “enough.”
Start building a life that feels like yours — not one that just looks good from the outside.
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11/26/2025

If you grew up in chaos, calm will always feel suspicious at first.
Your body doesn’t trust peace — it’s waiting for the next explosion.
That’s why the relationships that feel like “fireworks” often end in ashes.
You’re not crazy for mistaking intensity for intimacy.
You’re conditioned for it.
When love was unpredictable — when affection was earned, not given —
your nervous system learned to equate emotional highs and lows with connection.
The more you had to chase it, the more real it felt.
That’s why “peaceful” love feels boring.
Why the person who texts back consistently feels less exciting than the one who keeps you guessing.
Your body isn’t craving passion — it’s craving familiarity.
It’s chasing the emotional rollercoaster that once defined “love.”
But here’s the hard truth:
intensity is not chemistry — it’s survival.
It’s your unhealed attachment trying to recreate what once hurt you,
because it still believes if you can win love this time, you’ll finally prove you’re worthy of it.
That’s the loop —
You fall for the chase, not the connection.
You confuse adrenaline with alignment.
And when it crashes, you call it heartbreak, when really, it’s withdrawal.
Here’s your work —
Start noticing what “safe” feels like in your body, not just what “sparks.”
Because healing won’t feel like fireworks — it’ll feel unsettlingly calm.
It’ll feel steady, predictable, maybe even dull at first.
But that’s because your nervous system is recalibrating to peace.
The goal isn’t to stop feeling deeply — it’s to stop confusing chaos with closeness.
Because the love that sets you on fire might be the one burning down your peace.
Follow this page — because no one’s breaking down love, fear, and healing like this,
and the kind of love you want starts with awareness.

11/26/2025

You don’t have to shine every day to still be worthy of love.
We give grace to the moon when it’s dim, but none to ourselves when we’re tired.
We expect constant brightness — constant productivity, energy, happiness — and then shame ourselves when we can’t keep up.
But healing, growth, and life all move in cycles.
You’ll have days you’re radiant and unstoppable.
And you’ll have days where you’re barely holding it together.
Both are valid. Both are beautiful.
The moon doesn’t apologize for her phases.
She knows her worth isn’t determined by how much light she gives off — it’s in the fact that she still shows up.
And that’s your reminder too.
You don’t need to perform to be loved.
You don’t need to be at your best to deserve rest, peace, or care.
Even on your dim days, you’re still enough.
So stop demanding perfection from your humanness.
You were never meant to be full every night.
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11/25/2025

This is one of the most misunderstood patterns I see in relationships.
Because everyone wants to know when the avoidant misses you —
but the real question is why they couldn’t feel you when you were there.
Avoidants don’t lose love; they lose access to it.
They learned early on that connection comes with cost — that closeness leads to control, that vulnerability invites rejection.
So they built their safety in distance.
They don’t know how to stay connected without disappearing into themselves.
When you were reaching, they felt smothered.
When you pulled back, they felt free — but also hollow.
Because the silence they once craved doesn’t stay peaceful.
It turns into echo.
And that echo is the sound of everything they never let themselves feel.
This is the moment they start missing you —
not when you block them, not when you move on,
but when their solitude stops feeling like strength and starts feeling like loss.
When they realize your presence wasn’t pressure — it was love trying to meet them halfway.
But here’s the deeper truth:
they’re not just missing you.
They’re grieving the version of themselves who couldn’t let love in.
And that’s the part they rarely talk about —
the shame that comes when the defense finally cracks and they see how much they pushed away, not out of malice, but fear.
So here’s your work —
Don’t measure your worth by the moment they start missing you.
Their realization doesn’t mean they’re ready; it means they’re human.
You can have compassion without reopening the door.
You can acknowledge their pain without abandoning your peace.
Because sometimes the most loving thing you can do
is let someone face the loneliness that taught them to run in the first place.
Follow this page — because no one’s breaking down love, fear, and healing like this,
and the kind of love you want starts with awareness.

11/25/2025

Not everyone’s advice deserves your attention — especially from people who’ve never carried what you’re carrying.
It’s easy to give directions from a road you’ve never walked.
It’s easy to tell someone to “just move on,” “just be positive,” or “just try harder” when you’ve never felt the weight of their pain.
People love to comment on lives they don’t understand.
But wisdom doesn’t come from opinion — it comes from experience.
So take what resonates and leave the rest.
You don’t need to explain your process, your pace, or your healing to anyone who wasn’t there when you were breaking.
Your journey is sacred.
Your lessons are personal.
And the way you rise won’t make sense to everyone — but it doesn’t have to.
You’re allowed to build your life in a way that makes sense to you.
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11/24/2025

This one comes up in my sessions more often than you’d think.
People don’t usually lose love because it was toxic —
they lose it because they got addicted to what was missing.
The 80/20 rule in relationships is simple:
you’ll rarely get 100% of everything you want from one person.
Healthy love is built on 80% — safety, consistency, emotional presence, mutual respect.
But the mind, especially an unhealed one, fixates on the 20%.
The spark, the thrill, the validation that feels intoxicating because it mirrors an old wound.
So what happens?
You start convincing yourself you’re settling.
That maybe there’s more out there.
You start comparing — replaying what’s missing instead of nurturing what’s working.
And when that 20% shows up — the one who gives you excitement, intensity, chemistry —
you mistake adrenaline for alignment.
But when the high wears off,
you realize the 20% can’t sustain what the 80% built.
Because stability doesn’t look like butterflies — it looks like emotional regulation.
It looks like someone who’s boring on purpose, because they refuse to create chaos for connection.
And when you’ve lived off survival love, that can feel foreign.
The truth is, you don’t lose real love overnight —
you lose it through small acts of emotional neglect: comparison, resentment, discontent.
Until one day, you trade depth for dopamine.
And when you finally find the 20% you thought you needed,
you’ll ache for the 80% you took for granted.
Here’s your work:
Before you chase “more,” ask yourself what part of you is still starving.
Because sometimes it’s not your partner who’s not enough —
it’s the part of you that never learned how to feel full.
Follow this page — because no one’s breaking down love, fear, and healing like this,
and the kind of love you want starts with awareness.

11/24/2025

Just because they post the perfect gift doesn’t mean they have the perfect relationship.
As the holidays roll in, so does the pressure.
To perform.
To compare.
To pretend your relationship is something it’s not.
You’ll see the matching pajamas.
The luxury gifts.
The curated captions that scream “We’re so in love.”
But here’s what you won’t see:
The silent dinners.
The unresolved arguments.
The emotional distance wrapped in expensive distractions.
Don’t let someone’s highlight reel make you question your reality.
Because what you have — the quiet love, the honest conversations, the emotional work —
might be the very thing they’re begging for behind closed doors.
And if your relationship isn’t where you want it to be?
That’s okay too.
You don’t need a holiday to prove your worth.
You need truth.
You need alignment.
You need someone who sees you — not just someone who shows you off.
Here’s your work:
Don’t chase aesthetics.
Chase emotional safety.
Don’t compare your healing to someone else’s performance.
And don’t let loneliness trick you into settling for surface-level love.
Because real love isn’t loud.
It’s consistent.
It’s safe.
It’s felt — not flaunted.
Follow this page — because no one’s breaking down love, fear, and healing like this,
and the kind of love you want starts with awareness.

11/24/2025

You owe it to yourself to create a life that feels good on the inside — not just one that looks good from the outside.
Too many people spend their lives chasing approval, stability, or “success,” only to end up empty.
But peace — real peace — comes from alignment, not achievement.
Happiness isn’t built through perfection.
It’s built through honesty — the courage to admit what’s no longer working and the strength to change it.
Your joy matters.
Your peace matters.
And you are allowed to choose both, even if it disappoints people who benefited from your unhappiness.
Life is too short to live on autopilot.
You deserve mornings that feel calm, people who feel safe, and work that doesn’t drain your soul.
You deserve to breathe easier — not just exist harder.
Do more of what lights you up.
Release what dims you.
And remember: peace isn’t selfish — it’s sacred.
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11/23/2025

This is a hard truth, but it needs to be said.
Space doesn’t heal a relationship that was built on emotional distance.
Because space only works when there’s already safety — not when there’s disconnection.
So many people convince themselves that separation is a “reset.”
That if they step away long enough, love will somehow recalibrate.
But here’s the reality: space doesn’t magically build emotional maturity.
It amplifies what’s already there.
If both people are using that time to avoid accountability, to numb, to wait for the other person to change — that’s not healing. That’s hiding.
Real growth requires proximity and vulnerability.
It means sitting in the discomfort, having the hard conversations, and taking responsibility for your part without weaponizing the other person’s pain.
Distance without reflection is just avoidance.
And avoidance never heals the wound — it just delays the loss.
You can’t fix emotional unavailability by disappearing.
You can’t learn intimacy by practicing abandonment.
Because connection isn’t built through silence — it’s built through presence.
So if someone says they need space but can’t name what they’re working on in that space,
what they really mean is, “I don’t know how to stay and grow at the same time.”
And that’s not partnership — that’s postponement.
Here’s the truth:
If you both come back unchanged, it wasn’t growth — it was a pause before goodbye.
Healing isn’t about separation. It’s about transformation.
And if the distance teaches you peace without that person,
then maybe what ended wasn’t love — it was attachment trying to survive.
Follow this page — because no one’s breaking down love, fear, and healing like this,
and the kind of love you want starts with awareness.

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My goal is to provide Solution Focused and Goal Oriented therapy tailored for your specific needs. As the founder CEO of Therapeutic Center for Hope, a premier psychotherapy practice that conducts therapy in the comfort of your own home, my expertise ranges from adoption and home study services to postpartum therapy, infertility issues, depression, grief, adjustment, anxiety, divorce, and marriage/ family issues. I am a licensed and dedicated therapist, giving feedback while being careful not to impose my own values or opinions. Only you hold the answers to your success. You are the expert. I serve as the tool that will assist for you to access the potential you desire. Your success is up to you. I consider it a privilege to be a part of your decision to improve your life.