Ashley Loren

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Make Your ‘Word of the Year’ More Meaningful: A Ritual to Anchor Your Intention in Stone

All this talk of Word of the Year, Goals, Intentions… So what is an intention anyway? If you look up the definition…  It will say something to the effect of a commitment to a course of action or an aim.   I like to twist the word intention a bit.  For myself, an intention becomes a […]

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Ditch Your Goals: How Letting Go Can Lead to Your Biggest Breakthrough

As life unfolds into a new calendar year (in 2025) it’s a good time for self-reflection. I’ve been in the process of coming to terms with my ambitious nature — my penchant for overcommitment and striving.  Going into this year, I’ve decided to ditch goal-setting, let myself off the hook, and see where it leads—a

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Forgiveness – How Letting Go Can Transform your Life

“I forgive you for not having the capacity to love me the way that I wanted to be loved by you.”  Many of us are familiar with the metaphor that holding onto hatred is like drinking poison while expecting the person you despise to die. The irony is that the one who ultimately suffers most

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Sacred Circles – The Unrushed Way of our Healing

“If I were not healed enough to face myself with love and compassion at every turn and seeming misstep–giving myself wide berth for my heaving, healing journey–the process would be unbearable and maybe even impossible.” “Thank you ‘Self-Love’ for opening up a wide pathway and shining light upon it.” ~Journal excerpt 9-15-24 Our journeys of

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Proven Way to Hack Your Self-Imposed Limitations Every Time

“Until you make the unconscious conscious it will rule your life and you will call it fate.” –Carl Jung We each have beliefs about our circumstances, about the way things are and how they should be.  Many times these beliefs go uninvestigated while they play in the background of our minds for years, decades, or

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