Have you ever gotten exactly what you wanted...the money, the success, the relationship, the lifestyle, that “dream big” thing, and then once you got it realized it didn't make you feel the way you thought it would?

In this episode, we unpack the real reason behind your wants and desires. So often, we chase things because we believe they'll finally make us feel a certain way (safe, enough, validated, successful, free, loved, approved of, you name it), but when we get the thing and still don't feel the way we hoped, it can reveal where we're still looking outside of ourselves for something we actually get to cultivate within.

This episode is all about learning how to want from wholeness instead of from a void.

We'll explore how to get clear on whether your desires are truly heart-led or whether they're coming from conditioning, comparison, nervous system patterns, or the belief that something outside of you will finally complete you.

You'll also learn why gripping tightly to your desires can actually create more distance from them, and how giving yourself the feeling you're chasing now can help you soften, detach, and receive from a much more grounded place.

This is about dreaming big from fullness, and wanting more without needing something outside of you to finally feel okay.

In this episode, we cover:

→ Why getting what you want doesn't always feel fulfilling

→ How to uncover the real reason behind your desires

→ The difference between heart-led wants vs conditioned wants

→ Why money, success, travel, relationships, and achievements are amplifiers

→ How to stop placing your power outside of yourself

→ Why nervous system capacity matters when receiving what you want

→ How to take your desires off the pedestal

→ The role of detachment in manifestation

→ How to start feeling the way you think your desire will make you feel now

→ Journal prompts to uncover what you actually want

If you've been chasing a goal, gripping onto a desire, or wondering why something you once wanted so badly doesn't feel as good as you thought it would, this episode is for you! It will help you return to yourself, reconnect with your true desires, and create from a place of wholeness.

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How often do you know exactly what you DON’T want, but struggle to name what you DO want?

In this episode, we're exploring why knowing, claiming, and communicating your desires can feel so vulnerable. From people-pleasing and decision fatigue to the fear of getting it wrong, being judged, or not getting what you ask for, there can be so many reasons it feels safer to stay in indecision-mode.

Learn how to begin reconnecting with your true wants in the small, everyday moments, like…what to eat, what to wear, how to spend your time, whether to rest or create, and better understand why these small choices build the self-trust needed for bigger life, relationship, career, and business decisions.

We also explore the difference between a “true want” and a “conditioned want”, we go over how to use your body as information when making a decision, and a simple question to ask yourself when you feel stuck: "If I did know what I wanted, what would it be?"

Your wants are not too much. You can honor your desires while still caring for the people around you. This is your reminder that it’s safe to choose, safe to communicate, and safe to create a life that feels alive to you.

In This Episode, We Cover:
→ Why it can feel safer to focus on what you don't want
→ The connection between indecision, people-pleasing, and self-abandonment
→ Why claiming what you want can feel vulnerable
→ How early conditioning can shape your relationship with desire
→ The power of practicing decisions in small everyday moments
→ A simple prompt for accessing clarity when you feel stuck
→ How to notice expansion and contraction in your body
→ True wants vs. conditioned wants
→ How to communicate your desires without abandoning yourself or others
→ Following what feels alive, expansive, and energizing now

Ready to get clear on what your core self actually wants? Send me a message on Instagram, @ohtheplacesashgoes, and let's book your 1:1 session where I can intuitively-read your core wants for you.

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What if the things you’ve been making personal are simply “part of the game”?

In this episode, I'm sharing my biggest life-changing takeaways from a recent mastermind, insights that helped me deepen my relationship with agency, heart-led living, motherhood, business, growth, and my future self.

We explore why people may have opinions when you choose an extraordinary life, how to stop attaching your worth to rejection or projection, and the power available when you fully own the choices you’re making.

Whether you are building a business, navigating motherhood, healing burnout, moving through relationship dynamics, or simply wanting to feel more lit up by your life, this episode is an invitation to stop shaming yourself for where you are and start backing yourself more deeply.

In this episode, we explore:

→ Why doing extraordinary things naturally brings judgment and projection
→ How to stay in your heart when your ego wants to keep you small
→ The difference between making a choice and fully owning that choice
→ Releasing shame around trade-offs, seasons, motherhood, business, and ambition
→ Why the way you see and treat yourself teaches the world how to respond to you
→ How to stop taking rejection, conflict, "no's," and other people's behavior personally
→ Seeing challenges as part of the game rather than evidence that you’re failing
→ Moving from discipline and hustle into devotion to your future self
→ How to be fully present while still taking aligned action toward your dreams
→ Reframing resistance, triggers, and hard seasons into opportunities for expansion

Your life gets lighter when you stop asking, "What does this say about me?" and begin asking, "What is this here to teach me, expand in me, or make space for?"

You get to choose your perspective. You get to own your desires. And you get to create the most empowering story about the life you’re living.

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Are you the woman everyone relies on, the one who gets it all done, almost as if you’re superwoman herself? Holding everything together, managing the home, work, relationships, family, health, business, and everyone else's needs, often without anyone realizing how much you are carrying?

In this episode of That's So Nourishing, we're exploring the identity of the woman who “holds it all”, the capable, dependable woman who can move mountains, but who may be doing so at the expense of her own needs, softness, support, and aliveness.

This episode is about recognizing where you may be overfunctioning, over-giving, over-proving and/or abandoning yourself in order to hold it all together, and knowing it doesn’t come with becoming careless or giving up your responsibilities.

We'll explore why asking for help can feel so vulnerable, why receiving support can feel uncomfortable even when you deeply crave it, and how to begin taking small steps toward trusting that you can be supported.

In this episode, we cover:
→ The woman who holds it all identity, and why it can be so hard to release
→ How childhood roles, responsibility, and survival patterns can create overfunctioning
→ The hidden pressure of needing to be seen as capable, strong, and dependable
→ Why you may struggle to ask for help, or receive it when it is offered
→ The relationship between control, nervous system safety, bracing, and burnout
→ How managing your life can take you out of actually living it
→ Micro-steps for delegating, receiving support, setting boundaries, and letting others rise
→ How to hold your responsibilities while keeping yourself at the center

Being capable doesn’t mean you have to carry the weight of the world, and letting yourself be supported does not make you any less responsible, ambitious, or powerful. This is an invitation to let yourself be more fully seen, supported, nourished, and alive as you sustainably hold the beautiful life you are creating.

If this episode resonated, please follow, share, and leave a five-star ⭐ review as it helps more women discover this life-changing work.

Be sure to come find me on Instagram at @ohtheplacesashgoes and let me know how it landed for you - and if you'd like to go deeper into these nervous system patterns, join my free weekly live webinars and my email list through the link in the show notes for practices, support, and more.

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In today's episode, we're exploring one of the most normalized states of being in our culture: busyness.

As women who hold it all, it's natural to have a lot on our plates...family, relationships, careers, businesses, health, friendships, the never-ending to-do list. It makes sense that “busy" feels like just the way life is, our natural rhythm.

But what if feeling busy all the time isn't just about your schedule? What if it's also about how your nervous system has learned to feel safe, and what your worth has learned to depend on?

Through Ashley’s personal stories of dreaming of busyness as a kid, tying her worth to constant productivity, and feeling guilty when life finally became spacious, we discover how to start moving through a full life from a grounded, regulated place instead of a frantic one.

This conversation isn't about doing less or shaming your chaotic schedule, it's about noticing the energy behind how you move through your days, and recognizing whether you're moving from fear, urgency, and pressure, or from presence, aliveness, and choice.

Your life may be “busy”, but it doesn't have to feel frantic.

In this episode, we explore:

→ Why busyness is treated like a badge of honor in our culture
→ How your nervous system can become addicted to being busy
→ The connection between busyness, worth, and identity
→ Why busyness is the most socially acceptable form of avoidance
→ The difference between a busy life and a full life
→ How to notice the stories you're telling yourself around busyness
→ Why your to-do list isn't the real problem, your relationship to it is
→ How dropping into your body can help you move through life from a more grounded place

If this episode resonated with you, I have a free 10-min body scan audio (linked below) that is one of my favorite tools for getting out of my head and into my body and can greatly support how you’re relating to everything on your plate - I invite you to utilize this tool to start approaching your days from a more regulated, present place.

🎧 Free Body Scan: https://ohtheplacesashgoes.com/body-scan

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In this episode, we explore the depth travel has given back to me, not solely in the places I’ve seen, but in the ways it’s shaped me. Through stories ranging from Africa, across South America, SE Asia, the Middle East, and beyond…I’m sharing how travel has molded my relationship with happiness, identity, uncertainty, freedom, and who I actually am underneath all the roles and routines.

While this episode certainly shares a variety of stories from places I’ve explored all around the world, my intention behind it isn’t really about travel itself, but more so what happens when you leave the environments & expectations that have shaped you and finally get to see what's true for you. It's about realizing there’s no one right way to live, that happiness was never in the external bucket list you were told to chase growing up, and that the version of you who comes alive when you're somewhere new might actually be the most honest & true version of you there is.

In this episode, we explore:

→ Why the world isn't always as it seems, and how much of what we believe is just inherited conditioning
→ How witnessing so many different ways of living blew up the rules I thought were fixed
→ Why your nervous system comes with you in your carry-on, no matter where you go
→ How travel reveals who you actually are when the roles and routines fall away
→ How to keep the most alive & expanded version of yourself around even after your trip ends

Travel has shown me the world and continues to provide me with life-long memories, but more than anything, it’s shown me myself.

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Boundaries tend to get a bad rap. We often associate them with creating distance, conflict, or disconnection, but what if I told you a boundary is actually one of the deepest forms of love, trust, and safety you can offer in a relationship?

In this episode, we get into why setting boundaries can be a shock to the nervous system, especially if you grew up being taught to people-please, avoid disappointing others, or abandon your own needs in order to stay connected. We talk about why resentment often points to an unspoken boundary, how people pleasing can keep us disconnected from our own truth, and why setting a boundary from a grounded, regulated place can completely shift how it lands & how it's received.

If you’ve ever frozen when trying to say no, felt guilty for needing space, or worried that a boundary would ruin a relationship, this episode is 100% for you.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why boundaries feel like a threat to the nervous system and why that makes complete sense given what so many of us were taught
• Why people pleasing, as kind as it can feel in the moment, can actually be a form of manipulation that disconnects us from real connection
• How resentment and anger are often signals that a boundary was needed earlier
• What it actually means to set a boundary versus making a demand, and why that distinction changes everything
• How to communicate a boundary from a grounded, regulated place so it can actually be received
• Why boundaries can deepen relationships rather than damage them, and what they reveal about the connections in your life

This week, notice where you're doing things you don't actually want to do just to avoid saying no, or where you're staying quiet and hoping someone will just figure out what you need. Choose one boundary to practice, whether it be with yourself, your time, your energy, or someone in your life, and notice what shifts when you actually say it out loud.

Come find me on Instagram at @ohtheplacesashgoes and let me know how it went.

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Self-love can feel like a big, abstract concept, something we're supposed to figure out, arrive at, or prove through some grand gestures. What if self-love is actually much simpler than that?

In this episode, we're looking at self-love in a new fresh perspective…as the moment-by-moment practice of prioritizing yourself and asking, “what do I need right now to show up as my best?”

Inside this episode, you'll explore:

→ Why self-love isn't solely about big gestures or external validation
→ How prioritizing yourself rewires beliefs around worthiness, enoughness, and lovability
→ The simple question you can ask yourself in any situation
→ Why filling your own cup allows you to serve from overflow instead of depletion
→ How self-love ripples into your relationships, business, finances, and capacity to make an impact
→ What happens when you become the source of the love and support you've been seeking from others

This episode is an invitation to try on a new definition of self-love, one that’s practical, embodied, and available to you at any moment.

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