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Unlocking Inner Wisdom:  A Journey into Somatic Embodiment 

Hey there, mama! Welcome back to The Mom-entum Podcast! Today, we're diving into a sacred space of growth and self-discovery with our dear soul friend, Ashley Carver.

 

She's here to guide us through the journey of motherhood and help us find our inner strength amidst the chaos.

 

Meet Ashley Carver, a soulful guide on the path of growth, healing, and connection. Through her deeply rooted spiritual connection and container of love, Ashley works with both couples and individuals to navigate the challenges of life and relationships. From transforming feelings of disorder and disconnection to fostering blissful thriving and passionate intimacy, Ashley is here to support us every step of the way.

 

Key Discussion Points:

 

Tapping into Your Inner Strength:Ashley shares her wisdom on how to reconnect with ourselves and find inner peace and power in our journey through this thing called life. It's all about diving deep and doing the work necessary to shift into our highest potential.

 

From Midwife to Wisdom Guide:

After six impactful years as a homebirth midwife, Ashley experienced a series of heartbreaking losses within a short period, prompting her to reassess her path. Through introspection and guidance from her spiritual mentors, Ashley realized her calling was shifting towards a deeper soul midwifery—a journey of assisting individuals in overcoming past wounds and aligning with their soul’s highest timeline.

 

Creating Deep Connection in Motherhood:Through somatic embodiment practices and spiritual connection, Ashley guides us in creating deep connections with ourselves, our children, and our partners. Because let's face it, motherhood is all about love and connection.

 

Thriving Together:Whether you're a solo mama or part of a couple, Ashley's insights on building a foundation of safety, communication, and intimacy are invaluable. It's all about shifting from surviving to thriving, both individually and as a family unit.

 

I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to Ashley for sharing her wisdom and guidance with us!

 

Mama, remember that you're never alone on this journey. Together, we can embrace our inner strength and create a life filled with love, connection, and blissful thriving.

 

Connect with Ashley by clicking on one of the links in the resources section below! She's here to support you on your journey of growth and transformation, every step of the way.

 

Stay Connected:Don't forget to hit that subscribe button to stay in the loop with all the latest episodes of The Mom-entum Podcast. Until next time, mama, keep shining bright!

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TRANSCRIPT

Tanya: hello and welcome to another episode of the momentum podcast. The show dedicated to inspiring, uplifting, and empowering women on their journey through motherhood. I'm your host, Tanya Valentine, and I'm so glad you're here.

 

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Tanya: I've got a special episode for you today. I am interviewing Ashley Carver, who is a practitioner of spiritual semantic embodiment, healing, and as a guide and architect of soulful, safe, and sacred healing sessions.

 

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Tanya: Ashley invites individuals and couples to rediscover their truth.

 

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Tanya: deepen their relationships, and align with life's purpose.

 

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Tanya: With a background. As a home birth midwife.

 

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Tanya: she brings a nurturing energy and profound spiritual insights to every somatic healing session. She offers one to one healing sessions to dive deep and help clients go from where they are now, to where their deepest desires and goals are guiding them.

 

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Tanya: Hello, Ashley! Welcome to the show, and thank you so much for being here.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Thank you so much, Tanya. Thank you for that. Intro. I really really appreciate being able to talk with you today.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, me, too. And first of all, let me just say I'm so excited you're here because I really do love talking about all things spiritual, esoteric, and mystical. So I'm all in today, and I can't wait to learn from you. And can you just start by introducing yourself to the audience and sharing your story.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Sure. Yeah, thank you. I'm super down to talk about all things spiritual

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): as well. So really excited about this, too.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): A little bit about me. My background, as you said, is in homework, midwifery.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): I was a birth worker and midwife for

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): not too long. Before I

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): before I got some clear messaging that I was supposed to take a pause and take a step back from that

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): line of work, and that calling and so through that time of pause, I

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): I did a lot of healing work on myself and did some some more training programs. And I ended up coming into this

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): this line of service of somatic embodiment work which I really, really.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): it really excites me. It really lights me up. And I really love working with people in this way to help them kind of come into their body.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): find out what's holding them back from their deepest desires and help them kind of take steps

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): towards that, and manifest whatever they want in their lives. So it's really fulfilling and satisfying work. And to me it feels a little bit like

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): midwifery still, but

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): but of adults like in their souls and their spiritual desires. So

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): that's that's kind of where I'm at right now.

 

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Tanya: Okay, yeah, that's so cool. And could you explain a little bit more in detail to like what exactly spiritual somatic embodiment is, and like what you actually do as a guide.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Sure. Yeah, that's a great question. And a lot of people are a little bit confused about what sematic embodiment is. So

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): to me, what it is is is tuning into the felt sense of the body. Soma is part of somatic embodiment, and Soma just means, like

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): the mind and the body and the spirit all connected with each other, and the sensations and the experiences that we carry.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): and all of these different levels.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): so somatic embodiment kind of taps into

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): our desires first, and where we are in this present moment, and then we kind of tune into the body

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): and the mind and the spirit. And we find

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): the

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): the areas that might be holding us back from those desires. So this could be like trauma from childhood, or it could be

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): past relationships. That kind of make us feel like we need to keep ourselves safe by keeping ourselves distant from our current relationships.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): So it's really nuanced. And it's different for each person.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): But we have

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): a pretty solid framework of tools to use in order to help people kind of release or integrate or work through those

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): those roadblocks or learning experiences, and then

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): kind of hand the keys to life over to more empowered pieces that exist within our body, our mind or our spirit.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): So that's kind of the gist of of what it looks like. And the spiritual aspect is just

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): my own personal

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): lens through which I view life is that we're all

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): spiritual beings, kind of just having a physical reality.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): 3D. Experience in this life.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): So that's kind of the perspective that I have on on the healing work when we're going through it.

 

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Tanya: Okay, okay? And then, so

 

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Tanya: when you're

 

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Tanya: do so, how do you? Exactly. You do it? Is it like through talking? Is it kind of like therapy coaching, or are you you like? What kind of tools are you using.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah.

 

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Tanya: Like heal these

 

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Tanya: underlying wounds or blockages.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, we use a lot of different tools. It is a lot of talking and

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): and kind of tuning into the body. We're not kind of going back to the past like traditional talk therapy does

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): to revisit the stories of how all these

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): pieces came to be. In the first place, we're just tapping into where they are now.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): what they feel like and what they, what they need in

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): and what they can express to kind of help us get clarity on why we are where we are in life.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): so to do. The the integration and the healing and the release of these pieces. We use breath work or

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): sounding.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): or, you know, moving the body physically.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): In addition to to the talking, and like going

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): kind of going into the body to talk

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): to these pieces and give them consciousness

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): in a way. So it sounds weird to some people, but

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): in like Taoist and Tantric philosophy.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): each piece of the body has consciousness. Each piece of

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): you know, our experience has its own consciousness. So we're kind of like giving a voice and and tapping into the consciousness of these pieces, so they can kind of express what they need to express

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): in order to be healed.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): integrated or released through the breath work in the movement and sounding.

 

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Tanya: That makes me think of that book. Have you ever? I'm sure you've heard of it. The the body keeps the score.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Oh, totally. Yeah, that's a big foundational book and perspective for the work that I do. Yeah.

 

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Tanya: Playbook. So your body, your

 

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Tanya: like muscles, hold trauma.

 

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Tanya: And so you're essentially like finding like. So this is just my interpretation of it, and you can correct me if I'm wrong. So the way I'm

 

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Tanya: interpreting it is just yeah, like, so you find the locations in the body that are storing this trauma and using your tools to like uncover

 

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Tanya: these.

 

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Tanya: I guess

 

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Tanya: wounds that have been kind of like swept under the rug. You uncover them, bring them

 

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Tanya: into the consciousness, and then use your tools to then heal them because they're blocking these individuals from

 

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Tanya: basically living into their full potential right.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Totally. Yeah, that's a great explanation of it.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): to me what I I kind of view it as like

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): as children. We all have these

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): inner children within ourselves, and just as you would any children

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): that might be in your life outside of yourself, you want to hear what they have to say. You want to hear. You want to hold space for their full expression. And it's not like, you know, giving your child the keys to your life. You're just letting them express themselves and and express their needs and their wants and their desires, and then providing containment for them, so that.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): like your inner 4 or 5 year old isn't kind of

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): running the way that you interact in your relationship with your partner. If that makes sense.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, no, I love that explanation.

 

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Tanya: Okay. So the next thing I want to get into is, so I know you help people on their journey of self discovery. And I just wanted to know. Oh, can you share what self discovery means to you, and why you think it's important.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yes, self discovery to me is just

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): like, I think, clarity and knowing self sorry there's some

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Pattern. Oh.

 

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Tanya: No worries. I can't! I can't hear it.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Cool.

 

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Tanya: So your.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Cool. So yeah, self discovery. I feel like

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): a lot of us feel like we're mysterious in some ways, like we

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): act in certain ways. And we're like, why do they do that like.

 

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Tanya: Yeah.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): That doesn't even feel like me. So to me, self discovery is just learning ourselves on such a deep level that we're not a mystery to ourselves anymore. And when

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): we're not a mystery to ourselves. That means we can interact with other people in our lives in a way that feels more solid and grounded, and

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): open and easy to understand. So it kind of paves the way for

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): all of life to become more useful and flowing and

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): and satisfying when we can learn about ourselves in this. In this way.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, like, why they? Why, we do the things that we do, and what do we even enjoy and like? What are our deepest sole desires because I think many of us

 

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Tanya: it's kind of something that we've forgotten like. I remember when I

 

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Tanya: started getting into this work, I was like. I don't even know what my favorite color is.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): No.

 

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Tanya: You know.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah. And that's the thing with somatic embodiment is so much of our life is spent, not in our bodies, not knowing ourselves and not actually feeling

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): what our body is feeling or like. Our heart is like. If our heart is our whole life is like, Hey, I love purple. I want you to be wearing purple more often, but we don't listen to our heart or embody our actual physical body. Then it's really hard for us to like.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): feel like we're living in alignment with our truth and kind of

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): can feel like something is wrong, or we get to a point in our life where we're like. I don't even know who I am. I don't know what my.

 

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Tanya: Yeah.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): I don't know like how I'm relating to my partner. I don't know why I'm doing things that I'm doing or why I'm like working in the job that I'm working.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, how did I get here?

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah.

 

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Tanya: Nice. Yeah.

 

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Tanya: it can.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): That would be really helpful in in figuring out what's going on in life, and then also deciding making a choice. Once you have clarity about what's actually happening. Then you could make an informed choice about where you want to go from. There.

 

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Tanya: Yeah.

 

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Tanya: yeah, it sounds to me like, you're just yeah, helping people get back on the path

 

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Tanya: that their souls

 

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Tanya: meant to be on

 

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Tanya: the path.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Right.

 

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Tanya: Their purpose.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, we have some layers over our soul and our true essence that we gather through our entire life.

 

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Tanya: Yeah.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): So it's kind of about

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): yeah, like you said, tapping back into the soul's truth, or the true essence of like who you really are underneath all of these layers.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, underneath all the programming right?

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah. Totally.

 

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Tanya: Okay, so and another thing I wanted to talk about was the one of the healing modalities that you use is somatic experiencing, and I was just wondering if you could explain what that is and how it works, and the benefits of this practice.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, somatic experiencing is kind of like a trademarked

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): name for what sematic embodiment is

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): so.

 

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Tanya: Okay.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): It's it's a phrase that more people might know

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): because it's made, then made

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): more popular. And

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): in kind of like the mainstream, it's as

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): It's kind of like saying Beakram yoga! Instead of just saying, Yoga.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): you know.

 

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Tanya: He is a.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): So basically, what

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): I've explained that somatic embodiment is the same as thematic experiencing.

 

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Tanya: Okay, so just tapping into your body.

 

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Tanya: Okay.

 

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Tanya: so like, what are some

 

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Tanya: like? How could we make this more tangible? For, like the person at home.

 

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Tanya: who is this even something that somebody could

 

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Tanya: try and do on their own? Or is this something that needs to be practiced with like a train professional like yourself?

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, people can totally do somatic, experiencing, somatic embodiment, breathwork sounding.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Basically, you can do anything at home that you that you would want to do on your own to just try it out. And if you Google,

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): like, what is what are some somatic experiencing or some somatic embodiment

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): tools to use. There's so many videos and links online that you can

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): And I will say that

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): that you've never seen before, or that you've never navigated before. It can really deepen the process.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): And then just it's like having an accountability partner.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): It really helps you kind of like, stay on task and on the path

 

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Tanya: That totally makes sense. Yeah, when you say accountability, yeah, I think that that's right. Like

 

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Tanya: and help you not get distracted and basically help you get to where you want to go. I would say, like more efficiently or faster.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Totally. Yeah, it does definitely. It can speed up the the journey a lot.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): And that's that's a big drawback for a lot of people in the healing journey is like, well, I've been like this my whole life. It's gonna take me forever to to get where I actually want to be. But when you have someone who you're working with who can help guide you and help you go deeper than you might want to go on your own

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): you can really like you said, Yeah, fast track the process.

 

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Tanya: Okay.

 

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Tanya: alright. And so, okay. So we said, breathwork, and you said movement. So when you say movement, would you just like

 

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Tanya: just any type of exercise, or

 

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Tanya: Yoga.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, you can do.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah. Movement to me is a way to get into the body. So.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): for example, someone could kind of

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Instead of dwelling on that in this semantic practice. I could just visualize myself completely in this reality, where I've met

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): the one they're the perfect person. They check all the boxes. How does that feel in my body?

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): more sense of like feeling like you don't deserve that. We're like you can't have that.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): You tap into that place

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): you could breathe into that place in the body, and then you can use movement.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Whatever that looks

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): for you. You could dance, you could stretch, you could

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): to do whatever kind of movement your body is asking for in that moment to to allow that piece to kind of move out of your body.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): If that makes sense. So you use the energy of moving your body

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Kind of sounds

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): hard to understand. Perhaps when you explain it out loud,

 

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Tanya: Is that like the way that you understood? I really like the way you understood it right there, like, so basically like.

 

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Tanya: if there's something that you want like you desire, like I love the example of like you're dating, and you can't find a partner. Sit, maybe eyes close, visualize like you. Ha, okay, you have. You found the partner? You're with them, like, what does like user? 5 senses like, what does.

 

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Tanya: Maybe, what does it look like like? What does it feel like in your body? And then you said, tap into your body and just notice

 

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Tanya: like any

 

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Tanya: contraction or resistance. Notice where that is in your body like, is it in your chest? Is your chest tightening? And then

 

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Tanya: When you notice the feeling

 

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Tanya: move, just move your body. You said, any way that feels good to you.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, allow that. Yeah.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Allowing that piece to express in the way that it wants to express through your physical movement, you can also do this with sounding, which is basically just making noise from that place in your body

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): or breath work breathing into that place, and a body and breathing in it connected

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): looping breath in order to allow that piece to

 

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Tanya: Okay, just moving the energy. It sounds like just on.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah.

 

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Tanya: Logging that block. Okay.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah. And that's a very somatic body centered way to

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): address blockages. You're not thinking about it.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): You're not like analyzing it in your mind or talking about how you got there. You're just coming out of the mind into the body and

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): doing what needs to be done to move that energy.

 

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Tanya: Okay, love it

 

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Tanya: alright. Next, let's talk quantum healing. I saw that this is something that you do, that this is another healing modality you use? And can you explain this, and how this works?

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Totally. Yeah. I've had a lot of personal experience in my own personal healing journey with this as well. So

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): this is an area that's really exciting for me, and that I've seen make huge differences both in my own journey and in my clients. So

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): quantum healing is basically going back a visualization or

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): traumatic happening to you. And you're doing this with a practitioner who can help you navigate

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): those feelings. So if you're going back to.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): maybe when you were someone told you to shut your mouth and not speak to be seen and not heard. And this kind of keeps you from using your voice as an adult. So you go back to

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): emotions that your 4 year old self was experiencing in that time. And then you kind of

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): when that happened, what would they have said to defend you.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): or if you were your adult self in your 4 year old body, what would you have said to

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): esoteric people will tell you that time. It's not real.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): So it's a construct, and you can go back or forward to any point in the past or future. And that's why visualization works so well in in terms of manifestation, because your body doesn't know

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): when you're visualizing whether it's when you're 4 or when you're 28. So

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): so yeah, you kind of just push that healed energy of that empowered experience, instead of the disempowering experience

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): That's kind of a.

 

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Tanya: Love that. Yeah.

 

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Tanya: No, I was. Gonna no, I just love that so much. And I would just curious to like with your clients. Do you ever have.

 

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Tanya: Do they ever have trouble like remembering what it

 

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Tanya: like the event? Or have? I'm just curious.

 

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Tanya: Have you ever had issues with that.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, sometimes it's too big to remember. It's there's not the nervous system to regulation to be able to like. Remember the exact experience.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): But there is the the impact that it has left in the body. So

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): if you don't remember exactly why you keep yourself distant from your partner and you can't. You don't feel like you can connect.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): For example, we can just go back and kind of find where the feeling is in the body. Instead of like reliving the whole past. Traumatic experience. Does that make sense.

 

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Tanya: Too, caught up in

 

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Tanya: pinpointing the exact moment when the trauma happened.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, depends on what works best in that

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): if it feels like it's going to be too overwhelming. They're like. I just can't remember. Then we honor the the bodies.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Knowingness of what's appropriate and what's not appropriate.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, it does. So do you think I'm just curious?

 

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Tanya: do you think that? That's why that app? Why, people can't remember the specific event, because it's just too overwhelming for them.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Other times.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Maybe it doesn't have to be remembered. And it just can be as simple as that, you know. But a lot of times. Yeah, these events that happen when we're children. Sometimes they're even pre verbal like before we're speaking. So there's really no words we can attach to them because we weren't

 

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Tanya: Yeah.

 

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Tanya: Ellie.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): It's it's a different sort of container than just your everyday life of trying to think back and

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): discover like while you're doing the dishes. Why.

 

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Tanya: Yeah.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): You are the way you are.

 

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Tanya: Yeah. Yeah. Well, cause you're in a more relaxed environment. And

 

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Tanya: you're with somebody, I guess, such as yourself, who's like trained to do all this, too.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, yeah. And it's a nervous system sense of safety. Like we, we set the container as a safe container. So the nervous system can

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): allow us to go to deeper places than we might go in our everyday life.

 

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Tanya: Okay, okay.

 

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Tanya: so cool. Okay, so you're a mom. And I was just wondering, how has the work you do

 

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Tanya: complemented, how you show up for your kids and your family. And would you say it helps you be a better mom.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yes, it's definitely helped me to be a better mom, and I'm constantly diving in and trying to get better and better based on what comes through for me and my own

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): experiences that I've had in my life that were big like. Maybe as an adult, my parents didn't think

 

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Tanya: I know.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): 38 years of, you know, life happening. So

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): so yeah, I, it's really helped me to really honor their experience more and to really hold space for them to

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): love them more and appreciate them more, and view them as

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): beautiful gifts that they are, instead of.

 

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Tanya: S.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): You know, trudging through motherhood, like so many of us do, which is a completely normal response to motherhood in the world we live in.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): and it's nice to be able to kind of

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): in motherhood instead of feeling like contracted in motherhood.

 

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Tanya: Yes, I know, cause it can be so stressful and overwhelming. But you're right, like the goal is to. I feel like the goal of life is just to

 

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Tanya: learn to love more.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah.

 

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Tanya: To be more compassionate.

 

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Tanya: And just to help each other through.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Totally.

 

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Tanya: This earth, school.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah.

 

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Tanya: And just help each other.

 

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Tanya: Just walk each other home.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, I love that. That's yeah. So on point.

 

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Tanya: Yeah. But I love that, too, like what you're saying with your kit like, yeah, just put yourself in their shoes, because there are so many times like I can catch myself or like I catch my husband saying.

 

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Tanya: because they're kids, like, you know, I think your kids are around the same age as ages as mine. 6, 4, and one, while she's almost 2.

 

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Tanya: But yeah, like the things that they get so upset over my husband, and I said it, too, like it's like, it's so silly like, why are you getting?

 

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Tanya: You know? It's just I'm trying to think of like something that happened recently. It just. I don't know my son Rocco. He gets infatuated with like

 

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Tanya: I don't know. Items. I guess you'd call them like yesterday. Oh, we were going to a birthday party.

 

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Tanya: and it was my daughter's friend, and I was taking my younger son along with us, and my daughter wanted to hold the gift for her friend.

 

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Tanya: Son was just so upset, cause he wanted to hold the gift, you know, and.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah.

 

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Tanya: Crying, and how tangerine! But it's like we are so quick to be like. It doesn't matter. But

 

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Tanya: there's to them right.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): You laugh.

 

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Tanya: So, yeah, just like acknowledging.

 

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Tanya: invalidating their feelings like.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Totally.

 

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Tanya: I know you're upset, Buddy. Like, yeah.

 

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Tanya: well, yeah.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, you sound like, you're an amazing mom, just kind of acknowledging that in you and witnessing you. And that. So thanks for sharing that story. Yeah, it's really sweet that you can

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): help your son feel seen in his expression.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, well, thank you so much. I I try, but not perfect, and there are plenty of times when I don't do this. But you're right like when.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Right.

 

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Tanya: When you can like self regulate, it's easier.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah.

 

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Tanya: Because like, that's the goal. And then, too, like, what I like to

 

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Tanya: say is like, it really is important, like, it's okay to mess up but just make sure that we apologize and then validate their feelings like after the fact, like once everybody's like bombed down

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, but we're all humans.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, yeah, totally. Okay. Well, is there anything on your heart today that you'd like to share with the audience before we sign off.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): I guess I'm just really honored for the opportunity to kind of

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): be sharing a little bit about myself with your listeners, and I really appreciate them

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): taking the time to out of their days. I know everyone is busy busy to listen and

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): and see if anything I've said feels resonant for them, and I just wanna put it out there like if anyone's struggling or

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): feeling like they don't have clarity or answers on what's happening in their life. I love to just

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): put myself out there as available.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): because I know

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): it can kind of feel lonely in some times to navigate the big

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): feelings and emotions and experiences of life. But

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): yeah, just putting myself out there as someone who's a friend and who's open to

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): supporting people in whatever they would like support with.

 

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Tanya: Oh, thank you, that is so nice. I know there's so many people. I hope that this

 

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Tanya: podcast. Episode gets to whoever needs to hear it. And yes, I love how you call yourself Anamara.

 

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Tanya: Which means full Friend, right.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Yeah, but yeah.

 

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Tanya: Language is that.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): I I think it's Welsh, or some sort of Gaelic Irish language.

 

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Tanya: Shane.

 

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Tanya: It's so pretty but I love that you're a so you're a sole friend. So everybody reach out to our sole friend. And

 

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Tanya: Ashley, can you tell us, share with the listeners how they can find you?

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Sure. Yeah. My website is Www. Dot Ashley, carver.com.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): And my Instagram is, I just changed my Instagram name. It used to be Ashley, Anna Kara. Now it's

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): underscore. Ashley Carver underscore.

 

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Tanya: Okay, I'm writing this down. Is that the one that you sent me to cause? I'll make sure. I link that in the show notes.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): I might have changed it since I sent it to you, but I'll send you a new link.

 

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Tanya: Okay, cool, awesome. Thank you so much. Alright. Thank you, Ashley. So much for your time today, and sharing your knowledge with myself and our listeners. I loved everything that I learned today. I just know that what you shared today will help spark a little fire, and anyone out there listening, and will help them on their path to a more healed and higher self.

 

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Tanya: So I'll be sure to link.

 

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Tanya: Yeah, I'll be sure to link all of Ashley's info in the show notes, so you can all connect with her everyone at home. Thank you so much for listening. I deeply from the bottom of my heart, appreciate your support. I know how valuable your time is, and that you have a choice as to what you spend your time and attention on, and I'm so grateful you chose to spend it here with us today, and.

 

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Ashley Carver (she/her): Any of you.

 

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Tanya: Found value in today's episode. I ask that you please share it with your friends and family.

 

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Tanya: and be sure to subscribe and leave a rating review. As this helps more mommas like you find the show, and you'll be helping me spread encouragement, insights, and positivity to those in desperate need of it

 

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Tanya: until next week. Keep up. Keep up the good work, I promise you're doing so much better than you give yourself credit for. Bye.

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