Published May 05, 2025 | By Alyx E, Founder of Collectors MD

Let me be fully transparent with you.
Let me be heart-on-my-sleeve vulnerable for a second.

I am not healed. I don’t want anyone to look at what I’m building with Collectors MD and assume I’ve got it all figured out, or that I’m walking around like some wise sage who cracked the code. That’s not the case. That’s not who I am.

I still have urges.
I still feel that pull when a new product drops or a grail card surfaces.
I still owe debts I’m working hard to pay off.
I still have unresolved family issues that weigh on me more than I show.
And I still have days where I question everything—my progress, my path, my purpose.

I didn’t start Collectors MD from a place of peace. I started it from a place of pain.
But in trying to make sense of my own struggle, I ended up building something that’s helping others too. And that’s what’s changed everything.

This work—it grounds me. It keeps me accountable. It turns something that once consumed me into something that helps me heal. It’s been therapy. It’s been purpose. It’s been a light in a pretty dark stretch of my life.

So no, I’m not healed.
But I’m not hiding anymore.
And I’m learning that you don’t need to be fully healed to be part of the healing.

To everyone who’s stuck with me—thank you. Thank you for seeing the human behind the mission.
We’re just getting started.

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Progress isn’t perfection. It’s presence, it’s honesty, and it’s choosing to keep going.

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