About Alex
Hi — I’m Alex Burgnon. Most of these bios are written in the third person. But since it’s really just me telling you about my journey, that would be a bit odd, wouldn’t it? So here it is, in my own words…
Most of us would prefer to live a life free of emotional suffering, self-obsessed fear, conflict in our relationships, etc. I was no exception. But nobody sat me down and explained to me that the way to achieve that was to use those very experiences as vehicles to the transformation I was seeking. I had to find that out on my own.
For most of my adult life, I had been living a relatively abundant, content life, working at a career I loved — traveling the world as a flight attendant. But it always felt as if something was missing. I was perpetually wanting something else — and was never happy anywhere I was in a holistic sense. Something always needed to be different. Do you get what I mean?
So, I got sober at 39 when it became clear how my alcoholic drinking was keeping me stuck. It was a good start, and gave me a window into living life for the first time in a non-reactive state. But it was only one piece of the puzzle. Then, seven years later, I was diagnosed with aggressive cancer — and miraculously survived. That same year, I underwent a double hip replacement (unrelated to the cancer). And at 52, my 16-year relationship/marriage abruptly ended, and the charmed life I was living went up in flames behind me as I walked shaken — but fully conscious — into my next unknown chapter.
Each of these experiences was a death of sorts, and reinforced in me the value of surrender. Ultimately, each would evolve into a rebirth, and give me a chance to live again, but each time in a deeper, more fluid awareness. My willingness to be fully aware through my suffering brought me to transformation, and ultimately, freedom. More and more, I began to see that by going deeper into each seemingly fatal obstacle, I was less fearful each time a new one came along. I realized I was not the victim of my feelings and thoughts, but actually the driver of them. I was newly able to approach most anything in life with a previously unseen level of courage, and a sharply-defined fearlessness I had never witnessed in myself before.
At the end of all this, I was curious what this transformation meant. In my gratitude for the recognition of how little I came to realize I actually needed, and in the seat of this new conscious power, I began to wonder what I could do beyond just experiencing it for myself. I felt the urgent need to share this understanding with others, and to help them begin to see themselves in a new way that would allow them to live in a similar state of freedom, to help them understand that they, too, always have a choice.
Through my experience and my research into spiritual transformation and the mechanics of consciousness, I’ve learned to help people see and understand the structures that underpin their resistance to finding their own pathways to Self. And that’s what led me to life coaching. It
is a healing modality that dovetails perfectly with my own personal insights into why we make the choices we do.
My life experience brought me to my true purpose. And that’s what I hope I am able to help you do, too.
“The hallmark of courage is the knowledge and feeling, ‘I can.’ It is a positive state in which we feel assured, skillful, adequate, capable, alive, loving and giving, with an overall zest for life. We are capable of humor, activity, confidence and clarity. In this state, we feel centered, balanced, flexible, happy, independent and self-sufficient.”
— Dr. David Hawkins, MD., Ph.D
Alex Burgnon is a certified spiritual life coach, trained by Life Purpose Institute in their ICF accredited (ACTP) Spiritual Life Coach Training Program.