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What if the new year wasn’t something you had to rush into—but something you were invited to arrive in?

In this episode of Living an Intentional Life, we slow things down and gently step into the threshold between what has been and what’s becoming. I’m sharing reflections from my own end-of-year ritual—rooted in presence, embodiment, and deep listening—and inviting you to consider a different way of beginning again.

Together, we’ll explore what it means to create a heart-centered foundation for the year ahead—one that isn’t built on pressure, productivity, or becoming someone new, but on honoring who you already are. I’ll guide you through reflective questions, simple grounding practices, and intentional pauses you can weave into your very real life as you close one chapter and open another.

This episode is for you if you’re craving:
✨ A softer, more intentional way to begin the year
✨ Space to reflect without judgment or urgency
✨ Practices that help you root into how you want to feel, not just what you want to do
✨ Permission to move forward with clarity, embodiment, and trust

This isn’t about fixing or forcing—it’s about arriving.
Arriving in your body.
Arriving in your truth.
Arriving home to yourself before moving ahead.

Take a breath, get cozy, and meet me here 🤍

More from the Podcast :

• Sign up for JANUARY 2026 WORKSHOPS
• PURCHASE YOUR "Fall in love with yourself + your life : 2026 Planner!"
• FREE DOWNLOADABLE GUIDE - Creating a Heart-Centered Foundation
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• Work 1:1 with Ashley : Book an Intentional Living Connection Call

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• Tristen Whaley / @t_whales / tristenwhaley@me.com / Spotify

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As this year winds down, I’m overflowing with gratitude for this community — for you. Thank you for showing up for your growth, your healing, your intentions, and your dreams. Every message, share, download, and moment you’ve invited me into this year has meant the world.

To celebrate, here are the Top 10 Episodes of 2025 that resonated most with our community — a mix of 5 soul-led solo episodes and 5 inspiring interviews to guide you into living with clarity, intention, and aligned purpose:

🎙️ Top 5 Interviews:

• Ep 124 – A Ball of Yarn with Jennifer Lyons: unravel old stories, choose yourself, and step into a more grounded life
• Ep 126 – Pursuing Dreams with Bri Geeski: courage, creativity, and honoring your dreams
• Ep 130 – What It Feels Like to Live an Intentional Life with Marcy Browe: slowing down and trusting your inner knowing
• Ep 150 – The Bigger You Get in Business (+ Life), the More You Say NO to Get More YES’s with Alyssa Lang: boundaries and clarity for expansion
• Ep 128 – Trust Your Heart, Follow Your Inner Guidance with Patricia J. Crane, Ph.D.: intuition, wisdom, and heart-led living

☀️ Top 5 Solo Episodes:

• Ep 131 – The Power of Intentionality: stop waiting, start creating the life you want now
• Ep 136 – Enjoy the Transition Into Spring: plant your seeds, ignite your garden
• Ep 137 – 10 Intentional Actions to Honor Your Truth: come back home to yourself
• Ep 142 – Eight Steps to Curate a Life You Love: design a life rooted in purpose and joy
• Ep 165 – How Intentionality Leads to an Aligned Life: 5 actionable ways to embody intention daily

Whether this season feels bright and abundant, tender and reflective, or a mix of all things human, I hope you feel wrapped in warmth, supported in your becoming, and reminded that you matter deeply.

Thank you for being part of this intentional, heart-led corner of the world, for trusting me, and for letting me do the work I love with my whole heart. Wishing you magic, rest, sweet moments, and so much love this holiday season.

See you in 2026!

More from the Podcast :

• Sign up for JANUARY 2026 WORKSHOPS
• PURCHASE YOUR "Fall in love with yourself + your life : 2026 Planner!"
• FREE DOWNLOADABLE GUIDE - Creating a Heart-Centered Foundation
• Follow on INSTAGRAM
• Work 1:1 with Ashley : Book an Intentional Living Connection Call

Music by :

• Tristen Whaley / @t_whales / tristenwhaley@me.com / Spotify

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This is not just the final solo episode of 2025 — it’s a threshold.

In this deeply personal and heart-led episode of Living an Intentional Life, I take a moment to re-introduce myself — to you, to this community, and to the woman I’ve become after walking through one of the most transformative seasons of my life.

As this podcast marks three years since its ignition, I reflect on who I was when it began, the dreams I carried, the identity I was reaching for, and the version of success I once believed I needed to become. From ambition and visibility to courage and expansion, I share the honest evolution of how my relationship with purpose, identity, and intentional living has shifted — and deepened.

What follows is a raw and grounded reflection on the season when everything appeared to be “working”… and the long, slow unraveling that came after. Financial stress, grief, loss, betrayal, identity collapse, fertility heartbreak, and learning how to keep showing up as a mother while my world was breaking open — this episode holds space for the crumbling that so many of us experience but rarely name.

And yet — this is not a story of defeat.

It’s a story of remembrance.

Through awareness, intentionality, and a return to presence, I share how the dismantling brought me back to the bones of myself — stripping away who I thought I needed to be and inviting me to rebuild from truth, embodiment, and self-trust.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• The evolution of my relationship with courage, success, and identity
• What intentionality truly is — and why awareness is the foundation for aligned living
• How seasons of breakdown often precede our most grounded becoming
• The practices that held me through grief, uncertainty, and rebirth — from nature and journaling to therapy, somatic work, spiritual tools, ceremony, creativity, play, and care
• What it means to live cyclically, honor your nervous system, and give yourself permission to be multifaceted
• Why small, intentional daily actions create profound, lasting change

This episode is an invitation — to slow down, to listen inward, to honor who you’ve been, and to meet who you are now with compassion and curiosity.

If you’ve changed this year…
If you’ve felt the unraveling before the rooting…
If you’re ready to choose yourself again — gently, intentionally, and without apology —
this episode is for you.

Always choose you.
Never give up on yourself.
You are the most important piece of art you will ever create.

✨ From my heart to yours — welcome home.

More from the Podcast :

• Sign up for JANUARY 2026 WORKSHOPS
• PURCHASE YOUR "Fall in love with yourself + your life : 2026 Planner!"
• FREE DOWNLOADABLE GUIDE - Creating a Heart-Centered Foundation
• Follow on INSTAGRAM
• Work 1:1 with Ashley : Book an Intentional Living Connection Call

Music by :

• Tristen Whaley / @t_whales / tristenwhaley@me.com / Spotify