my journey
As a little girl, like most children, I was wild, free, creative, and full of life! I loved making up dances, making movies, and putting on plays for my parents.
Yet, as all of us experience the conditioning that is life, my voice was dimmed more and more through certain life experiences, and I became a very quiet, shy version of myself.
I became the best PEOPLE PLEASER you could ever meet.
My focus was continually on how to please/appease the person in front of me, and as such, I lost all connection with my own body's inner guidance system (my intuition).
What's worse, I allowed myself to accept unacceptable treatment in my relationships to the point of great detriment.
During my sophomore of college I studied abroad in France. It was there, at age twenty, that I entered into my first 10 year relationship with the man who would become my first husband.
Because I was unable to set healthy boundaries for myself, I quickly entered into a dynamic in which I gave most of my power away to him. I allowed myself to become smaller and smaller as I gave more and more of my power away to him.
Ten years later, when I had the clarity around my need to leave and the courage to follow through, I walked right into the next relationship that would become my second husband.
Because I had not taken the time to recalibrate and get to know who I was on my own, I fell right back into the same unhealthy pattern of allowing someone else to have power over me.
It is absolutely true that the Universe/God will continue to give you the opportunities to learn a certain lesson until you have mastered it.
(In other words, if you don't take the time and effort to unravel why something is happening in your life, you will continue to repeat the same pattern over and over again).
When it became clear to me that my second marriage was verbally, emotionally, and physically abusive, I knew that something in my life HAD TO CHANGE!
At this point I began a QUEST FOR TRUTH, and I have never stopped!
The first question that I asked God (Goddess, Source, Universe) over and over again was, "PLEASE SHOW ME THE TRUTH."
I began to be led to certain books on spirituality, podcasts, and working with certain counselors and therapists. I was led to an intensely spiritual and life-changing experience at Ascension Leadership Academy. I participated in multiple masterminds and women's healing workshops and retreats and worked one on one with powerhouse coach, Ashley Hann. Finally, I completed Christine Hassler's "Unleashed" Life-Coach training as well as received my Master's Coaching Certificate from Elementum Coaching Institute.
I have learned so many things such as the importance of:
*Speaking your TRUTH
*Listening to your INTUITION
*Allowing your EMOTIONS to move through you from a place of non-judgement
*DANCING to the tune of your own drum
*Facing your SHAME and GUILT and FORGIVING yourself for your past
*Consistently feeling into deep GRATITUDE
*Focusing on WHAT YOU WANT
*Believing that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!
*BEING the SOURCE of what you are creating in your life
*Living from a place of VISION
*Living in ALIGNMENT with your DIVINE DESIGN
You can access peace and acceptance EVEN as you navigate the most challenging events in your life.
The journey is intense, profound, and at times, all consuming, but you don't have to do it alone...
As your life coach, I will be ALL IN for you and your path to peace, authenticity, freedom and living in alignment with your divine design.
All my love,
Ashley
