The In-Between with Elizabeth Cheney

In-Between: Embracing Self-Love and Healing with Ashley Rossy

• Elizabeth Cheney • Episode 119

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My heart is so excited to bring you this week's In-Between. Ashley Rossy, an incredible friend and one of the coolest people I know, joins me on location in her magical garden room down in Gulf Shores, Alabama. This episode is nothing short of beautiful and offers meaningful conversation spread across some difficult topics but always guiding back to self-love. 

Here's a look at what's in store:

  • The power of PLAY and putting that into your day-to-day
  • Ashley has traveled all over the world, and she shares some of the wisdom she's gained from multiple perspectives
  • How her journey brought her back to the states
  • .... and the challenging chapter she navigated once she did
  • Giving birth to her incredible baby girl and deciding she had to divorce her partner 
    • The grace, kindness, and love she showed herself through this experience
    • The respect she has for herself, her baby, and her ex
  • How she got back on her path to healing and finding her divine feminine energy
  • Grounding exercise that you can do at home or wherever you hear this episode! 


I appreciate Ashley for sharing her story and experience with our community. If you'd like to follow her, you can see her on IG @AshleyRossyRealtor for more mindful practices and ways to improve your peace.  

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Elizabeth:

Hey, hey, hey. hey Welcome back to another episode of The Inbetween. I'm your host, Elizabeth. And if you can't tell, if you're watching this episode, I'm on location in probably the most epic Best energy, like I don't want to leave this space room. I think I've ever been in outside of like vacation spots But I am here with my friend Ashley Rossi. She welcomed me and Stan to her home this weekend. She lives in Gulf Shore So we've been living that beach life We've been talking about doing an episode for like a year at least right? I feel like um, so We came down to visit and I was like, let's record an episode while we're down here and here we are So yeah for those watching look at this space It's literally as epic as it looks and feels and you don't even see the behind the scenes. But anyways, I digress

Ashley:

see the jungle from this view. You just see all the leaves in the back that I need to blow eventually. You know,

Elizabeth:

You know, we'll do some b roll before before I leave and I'll tease this episode with like and here we are in the jungle Here comes the episode

Ashley:

we need to film it because eventually it's gonna have a big transformation. I'm manifesting a new backyard. By the end of this year, she's gonna do it, and it's gonna be like a whole transition.

Elizabeth:

I can't wait. Well, if there's one thing I've learned about you, you are a woman who speaks her truth and then sees to it. So I think that's amazing. But welcome to the pod. I love when my friends join especially when they have really interesting things to talk about, which I guess all my friends have interesting things to talk about. So I don't know why I even

Ashley:

we're interesting people.

Elizabeth:

I agree. I agree. So yeah, welcome to the podcast.

Ashley:

thank you so much. I'm so glad to be here.

Elizabeth:

Is this your first time on a

Ashley:

a podcast. This is my second time on a podcast. My first podcast that I was a part of, I, it was a wellness podcast and we talked a lot about yoga and yoni eggs and divine feminine, which we're gonna dive into. So yeah, I love talking about this stuff.

Elizabeth:

before we get into anything, how about you let the audience know a little bit about you? Because you are one of the first people coolest, most interesting, authentic people I have had the joy of meeting in this lifetime. So let the podcast do a little bit about Ashley. Yes,

Ashley:

Rossi. I live down in South Alabama on the Gulf of Mexico. 32 miles of beautiful beach, about 10 minutes away from it. Um, I have a lovely home that feeds my soul every single day. It's my healing space that I've created. And, funny enough, with work, I help other people find that as well. My main career at the moment is real estate. But

Elizabeth:

playing, that's

Ashley:

Love, light, yoga, meditation, playing. That's my, my soul's purpose right there. So to be able to share that space with others. I've been sharing the practice of yoga for the last decade. I started that journey in, in college, actually in Kennesaw. You know what? So a few of them, I want to say our sorority sisters, we were never in a sorority, but we were friends with all the girls.

Elizabeth:

We were default

Ashley:

Every single party, like, it's just funny, we just, we just didn't have to do all the things.

Elizabeth:

Yeah, we

Ashley:

And so, um, but anyway, a bunch of the girls from one of the sororities we used to chill with, they had a free yoga class at Kennesaw, and they invited me one day, and that was my first ever yoga class I went to. I had to have

Elizabeth:

to. I had to sit in a mountain. No, but let me tell you

Ashley:

but let me tell you something. If I had these tools and practices when I was younger, I would have bypassed so many life lessons that I was not meant to bypass,

Elizabeth:

to bypass. Divine lessons.

Ashley:

Divine lessons. So, um, but that just kind of piqued my interest with everything. And then I dove into so much depth within all of yoga when I lived in Thailand and India and then. past life for me as well. I was a scuba instructor at the same time and traveling all over the world, just having the most incredible adventures all throughout my twenties. But I landed up back here in South Alabama and have just been rolling with life ever since. Still teaching a little bit on the side and just still trying to find beautiful ways to heal those little deep dark shadows that we all got to heal so I could be my best self. So my daughter, my two year old daughter,

Elizabeth:

And she's perfect

Ashley:

just keeps growing up to be the most divine, amazing, authentic being. And she doesn't have to go through as many hard things as I did. I hope she goes through hard shit. She

Elizabeth:

We all will we all will in our own way But like you heal traumas and it's not to say to breed new traumas But it's just different types of experiences and I think that life lessons can be learned without serious trauma So she'll learn her lessons. She just won't have maybe all the scars You To different types of scars, you know, um one thing that actually Stan stands here somewhere I jokingly called him my production assistant, but he's already like Pissed off. He's already pissed off. So wherever I'm whatever he is. I hope you having a good time But last time we were talking about You and like your perspectives on life and how, you know, we, you and I both believe very similar things, but like, I feel like you have so much more rich cultural ties to it because you've been able to travel around the world and you have such different perspectives and you're so grounded. And Stan and I were both talking about it last night and I was like, you know, You, like, talking about you, so, Ashley, like, you're all sitting right next to me. I was like, Ashley just is, I've never met somebody with such perspective like her. And Stan goes, it's because she's been able to travel the world, and she's been able to see so many different things. And I think that is just something, I don't know why I'm going off on this, like, this tangent. the side, the side quest, but I just want to say, um, your experiences, like, and you bringing them back to the Gulf, like, cause I think maybe that's why I was thinking about it. You said, now I'm back here wherever life takes me. And it's like, but you brought so much with you, so much culture, so many lived experiences. And like, even just in the weekend that we've been here, I feel like my mind has even been, has been more opened than I could have even meant, like asked for, or even thought was going to happen. Justin, side convos. Justin, dinner talk. But I love that, and I love connections where, okay, yeah, this is our appetizer, now let's just get into it. You know what I mean? You're one of those people who will like, deep dive right there. Like, you're not afraid of it, you're not weirded out by it. I don't know, it's just you are such a great soul, such a great friend, and um,

Ashley:

um, I, um, it's great to

Elizabeth:

It's great to know you because I do feel like I get a special little bit of magic from the universe because of your experiences. Because you are so open about them. But anyway, sorry, wow, I just like fangirled really hard. My heart

Ashley:

is so big right now. No, thank you, and I'm very grateful for you too. I love the energy that you bring and the peace that you've brought into this house with your partner, that just like, I was just telling you this morning, like, I can trust you to come in, and like, I can chill, and that's a really intimate thing to be able to do with somebody in your home. Yeah.

Elizabeth:

that. I was like, I think it's a testament to like how, go with the flow, how like, not that we're roommates, but it felt like that. Like we just, you know, like, Oh, I'll see you later. I'm going to go to the store. Like this morning, Sanja's getting up, leaving, you and me, just go fish. It's like, we're just living in a little pod.

Ashley:

Just on vacay. We're

Elizabeth:

on vacation. We're not coming back, mom. Sorry about that. We are going to look at a house. So.

Ashley:

gonna look at a house this afternoon, and I'm so excited.

Elizabeth:

love it. So, but with all that said, um, you do have a special energy that you bring. And I think anyone who knows you would agree. Um, and part of that is like, I, I don't know. I probably called you a goddess, a water goddess, like 20 times yesterday in the ocean,

Ashley:

in the ocean. But you I was a water

Elizabeth:

you were, you were absolute. I'm like, are mermaids real? Do they exist? Are they making a comeback?

Ashley:

making a

Elizabeth:

And their name is Ashley Rossi. but you have a divine energy about you and, uh, I don't know. We've talked about past life. Was it transgressions or regressions this past, uh, this weekend? We've talked about lost societies. We've talked about like our purpose in life and the great experiment and that kind of stuff blew my mind. But these are the kinds of conversations that we have. And of course we're also shooting the shit eating gummy bears because like Of course, you know, um, or we're talking about my octopus teacher and just having our minds blown by the sheer

Ashley:

I call it, insanity of

Elizabeth:

beauty, and I call it insanity of life, because it is insane to live. That's like my new statement. I mean it as like a joke, obviously, but like it is insane to live and experience, so, I feel like you feel similarly to that. Yeah?

Ashley:

Yeah. I love that perspective. For sure.

Elizabeth:

So it's, uh, you just found yoga and when you were 19, which that blows my mind, I'm still kind of reeling on that. and then you had all these amazing world experiences. So

Ashley:

so we'll

Elizabeth:

this is probably a very broad question, so we'll just like take it and then we'll just see where we land. But what are the biggest things that you think you have pulled from your lived experience to who you are now as a person? Thank you.

Ashley:

I love that question.

Elizabeth:

I'm glad, because I was like, ooh, that was a big one. I

Ashley:

that question. I mean, obviously, there's so much gravity to that,

Elizabeth:

that. But, kind

Ashley:

kind of the first thing that came to me was so much more peace.

Elizabeth:

so I,

Ashley:

as we all did through our teenage years and early, like, 20s and college and You know, you, you carry wounds with you up into those places that become really chaotic and you're trying to find yourself and figure it out at 18 years old.

Elizabeth:

old. You don't know

Ashley:

just the dumbest

Elizabeth:

dumbest concept. It is! For

Ashley:

I have ever, for me, it's the silliest thing. But, um, it really took me, especially with a lot of family wounding, like we all have our family BS that affects us in one way and it's been my purpose in this lifetime to heal so many of those ancestral wounds. And so I found that the beginning of that through yoga and everything in life is just kind of stacked on from there. And so the biggest lessons, especially over the last decade from my travels, from diving, from yoga, from bonds that are forever

Elizabeth:

people

Ashley:

unbroken with people all around the world. It's

Elizabeth:

much more peace. It's

Ashley:

So much more peace. It's like Dang, I don't have to carry that energy. And I am that power. I can create my reality. I manifested myself traveling around the world. You know, the way that I did it, too. I, I remember envisioning, like the whole visualize. That was a huge practice that I did and it really came true. And I'm trying to find that again where I am now because it's something you got to constantly come back to and fine tune throughout those next chapters. I like to call it like, I'm level 32.

Elizabeth:

I'm 32 years old. Well see, whenever I was visualizing, like for instance, Being in

Ashley:

We'll see, whenever I was visualizing, like for instance, I remember being in college And with the girlfriend saying one day I'm going to live on my small beautiful island and a little shack and I'm going to have a tall, long, blonde haired, blue eyed island man bringing me coconuts and I mean I kid you not, that's exactly what I had. Like I, I remember even sitting there in those moments being like, wow, I'm powerful.

Elizabeth:

that's amazing. And

Ashley:

hear these stories all the time too. And it's, it's real. It is so real. And if we just

Elizabeth:

ourselves

Ashley:

give ourselves a lot more grace and a lot more love and stop going into these, no, this is, I have to go X, Y, Z, A, B, C, in this order, in this direction. Like we're all on our own journey. Stop comparing, stop trying to fit in with it all.

Elizabeth:

it

Ashley:

Try to find a way to let it flow through you and life is going to feel so much better. And you're going to give that off too. And that's what I'm trying to find. And they're like, I am.

Elizabeth:

I am,

Ashley:

So much more work has to be put in to where I actually want to be, but I'm willing to do it.

Elizabeth:

Right. And you just kind of trust the guidance of the universe.

Ashley:

I'm just open to whatever comes. Like, you have an amazing idea that served you, maybe I can take something and fuel it through me. You have an amazing, you know, it's like, I'm not closed off to really too much as long as it's

Elizabeth:

not, I have to do X, Y, Z, M, N, O, P in this order. That's such a good call out. I struggle with that sometimes. Yeah. sometimes I'm like, is it my ADHD? Is it my anxiety? Is it all of the above? But

Ashley:

like when we were talking on the car ride going to yoga, it's continuously coming back to that mindset of this is a practice. Like I am constantly, we're so in a dense energy on this earth, and to keep coming back to that place of love that we were born with, that we were, Divinely, purely gifted and then life slowly stacks on you through how it should, you know, and we have to, I think that's the whole point is we have to keep coming back to that practice of love and remembering and loving ourselves exactly where you are in that moment. And that can be really hard depending on what life is thrown at you.

Elizabeth:

Right and also just if you don't have like Strong self love self care practices like strong appreciation for you. Like you can let that inner negative mental spiral just take you down. I know I've had that. Um, I don't have it as much anymore, but that was like my mental, like, Uh, was from like a mountain I had to climb during my depression spell, um, but going back to the love and the appreciation for where you are, it's also like one thing that I think has been a theme this weekend that you've talked about and your friend Leslie, she was wonderful to me, is play, like viewing everything as play. And that doesn't mean like careless or like not taking things seriously, but taking things from an approach of play. Could you talk a little bit more about that?

Ashley:

Oh my gosh, yes, it's my

Elizabeth:

at it. You're so, yeah, yeah, you're very good

Ashley:

in yoga there's a Sanskrit word, and it's lila. And it translates to play, and it's, it's, Meant to be a divine play. Whatever you do. So, it can be childlike, it can be dancing, it can be If you're at your work and you're just making it fun and giggly or I mean, really, it's everyone's own language. You know it. How it feels most authentic and most connected to you. And so for me, like I love being home and I like to dance around or like act like I'm a tiger with Naya or a wolf. And then I have two Huskies. So like doing the same thing with them and like, we'll literally get into it fully and it's just, and sometimes it's silly, but I love it so much. And I think that that's just what it's about. Keep coming back to those practices of play. Because the world is constantly trying to tell you that something is wrong, something is heavy, something is broken, something needs to be fixed, something isn't enough. And damn, it's all enough. Like, just let it be and be free. That's it.

Elizabeth:

just let it be and be free. That's

Ashley:

That's a clip. That's a,

Elizabeth:

a, that's a clip. Um, yes, this girl took me to hot yoga today and I don't think I've ever sweat that much in my life. And then I didn't have a towel, so I was slipping and sliding all over the place. It was great. But my neighbor next to me, he took my towel, but it's all good. It definitely made

Ashley:

There was a lesson

Elizabeth:

there was a lesson like keep your core tight. Let it go. Keep it tight and don't worry about the squeaking and the squacking on the, on the yoga mat. But it was great. Um, yeah, you kind of kicked my ass this weekend. But, um, with the play, like I just, I felt that this weekend, I know there's like a I think it's still trending and things like that, but romanticizing your life, and that's kind of what I think of when you say play, but play just It's a more like, I mean hey, pick your, pick your word. Romanticize, play it up. But it's this idea of, like you said, life is not about suffering, because there is gonna be suffering. So like, that just goes, that's just a part of the game. It's just a part of the rules. It's part of the, the, the,

Ashley:

yin and the yang. Exactly.

Elizabeth:

We didn't even

Ashley:

this. We didn't mean to, but we

Elizabeth:

But yeah, I'm in light and she's in dark. And I have dark hair and you have light hair. I kind of love it.

Ashley:

Oh my gosh,

Elizabeth:

We're really

Ashley:

so cute. This is amazing.

Elizabeth:

Oh my goodness. But it's um, I don't know, it's just, it's a reminder that, and it is so, it is hard, but it's just a, you have to constantly go back to your, find your grounding, find, find your romantic, find your fun, find, Just don't focus on the lack or the less than or what you like don't have or the negativity. yes, you have to exist with it But like I feel like finding that existence In the yin and yang world is easier when you have that fundamental strength of like love or fun Like kind of guiding you and your decisions and your actions and all that

Ashley:

all that. Yeah.

Elizabeth:

I don't know

Ashley:

know. I love that.

Elizabeth:

Do I sound like a rossi student?

Ashley:

Yes. Oh, you got it.

Elizabeth:

Thank you. Thank you. well, so you lived this wild life all over the world. You saw so many incredible places. I mean, yesterday you were like, Oh yeah, I went Anaconda hunting. Oh my gosh. It was kind of crazy. And I'm like, Anaconda hunting, like you're just in the rainforest anaconda hunting. Like that is just epic as shit. Like I can't even, I just can't even like, you know, shortchange that. But then you came back here. Was that a hard transition? Like, cause you came back to the States during COVID. was that the reason why you guys came back or were you always planning to come back? So

Ashley:

back? So we were planning on coming back

Elizabeth:

we

Ashley:

for our wedding. And then we were off to leave again. We were going to move, we were going to do six months doing a motorcycle, uh, trek from South to North Vietnam. And then we were going to move out to Hawaii. So that was our plan before everything happened with COVID. So when COVID hit, we were living in Cairns, Australia, working out on the Great Barrier Reef. And living in a share house of 14 people, 14 amazing human beings from all over the world. Italy, Brazil, Honduras, um, the States, England, Thailand. It was awesome how our little family mixed in. But it was beautiful because some people were divers, some people were chefs, some people were locals that were just, you know, trying to find their way. And

Elizabeth:

when COVID hit,

Ashley:

When COVID hit, we had a family that was in this place, and it was interesting trying to navigate a place of fear with that, but we also got so much information from all over the world about what was going on, to where it didn't always feel like we were reliant on the news that you couldn't trust then either, right? So, that was beautiful, and we spent Because everything started to take effect in Australia sooner than it did in the States. So we really started to see stuff pop up in January. And then

Elizabeth:

three week

Ashley:

shut down. And then we left. We did a three week van ride from Cairns down to Melbourne where we flew out of.

Elizabeth:

the

Ashley:

Which was really beautiful, just to be able to have that last bit going through Australia. Because Australia is so spread out, and there's not a ton of people doing that. So it was peaceful in that state

Elizabeth:

day

Ashley:

at the time.

Elizabeth:

George Floyd

Ashley:

we were flying out of Australia, It was the day that George Floyd was killed, and the police station caught on fire, or was put to fire in Minneapolis, and that's where we were moving to. Because my ex husband's family was from Minnesota, and so we had a big plan. We were going to go back to Minnesota for a year, anchor down. He was going to use his GI Bill from his time in the Marines to finish out college, and It was also going to pay for part of our housing, and it just was the smartest idea, and we didn't know what was going on at the time. But, going from a life of living in the tropics for a decade on islands, and to Minnesota,

Elizabeth:

a

Ashley:

a pandemic, and also a huge, just like,

Elizabeth:

like, divide

Ashley:

in the country, and anger, and fear, and We hadn't lived in the States for so long, and we knew the energy that we were coming back to. So we knew it was going to be a challenge. And a challenge it was. I was

Elizabeth:

I was gonna say, I feel like that anger and divide is still there today in this country.

Ashley:

in this country. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. But I think more people want to join together in a place of love than not. I really do.

Elizabeth:

agree. And I do feel like people are more aware of the divide now. Does that make sense? Like, I don't know. And maybe it's just the people I attract, like the people, you know, people in my life are very similar to that. But I do, cause to me, I feel like for change, like I'm not saying, I'm not naive to think that, oh, awareness is

Ashley:

awareness is gonna

Elizabeth:

change, but awareness is the first huge piece of the puzzle of like figuring things out. And I do feel like there is a, I sense a more general awareness of like, Hmm, we ain't okay. We need to, we need to love each other a little bit more. Like there, I don't know. And maybe that's just me manifesting wishful thinking, but, um, that is definitely a culture shock to go from, A decade's life experience of anaconda hunting and going like all over, all over the world you've been and

Ashley:

life on

Elizabeth:

kind of living your life on your own terms in a way I feel like. Would you agree that to an extent? Like, maybe not your own terms but you get to do what you want. Like you're just, I don't know, I sense freedom. Like that's the word that keeps coming to mind when I think about your experiences. Yeah. For

Ashley:

for sure. It was very freeing.

Elizabeth:

freeing, the

Ashley:

I lived out of a backpack for a decade, you know, and I, I had a partner at the time that was understanding of my need to go and explore When I needed to go solo for a couple months in India, or a few months in the Caribbean, chasing with my yoga stuff, or friends, or, I've always been a free spirit in the sense of, I'm gonna go.

Elizabeth:

Mmm. And I love that

Ashley:

I love that about

Elizabeth:

I do too.

Ashley:

So, yeah.

Elizabeth:

It makes you very authentic. That's one thing that I, I feel about you is, it's not even about like, what you say is what you get, but like, it's genuine, it's authentic energy, I don't have to second guess it, I don't have to overthink it, I'm just like well if Rossi does something it's because she's put her like some thought into it and intention behind it And that's her decision and like hmm. I Believe in that I'm gonna support it I don't even have to know the why the who the what the where like I support it because I know Your intention setting and I know like the effort and work you put into anything that you do So and I think that's just I strive to get to that point and I think I'm getting there but like That's something I think we can all strive towards. And I'm not trying to say like, Oh, you've got it all figured out and you're perfect. It's like, we're all imperfect humans. But, you know,

Ashley:

know, it's,

Elizabeth:

It's, it's also like, it's like muscle memory. You know, once you build it, maybe you fall off a little bit, but once you get back on, the bike, you get back on that yoga mat, you're gonna find that rhythm, you're gonna find that flow, you're gonna find that muscle. so, anyways, with that said. But, basically, life had different plans, you come to COVID, you come here, and then, you guys get married, and then soon after that, you are pregnant, right?

Ashley:

Yeah, like a, like a couple

Elizabeth:

I got married

Ashley:

I, we got married in June of

Elizabeth:

our wedding

Ashley:

2020. We had our wedding then.

Elizabeth:

got pregnant.

Ashley:

And then, a few weeks later, I got pregnant. And I knew that I did not want to have my baby in Minnesota. So, I said, it's time to go home. And home is Gulf Shores, Alabama. My family's down here, my grandparents, my mom, my aunt is just five hours away up in Atlanta, and I needed to be back at the beach. I needed to be in my warm, safe space, somewhere that I felt I could ground and nest for this next big chapter, which was Naya Ray, the coolest human being to ever exist, ever.

Elizabeth:

who rous a dinosaurs. I got her like this dinosaur bingo game and she's

Ashley:

obsessed

Elizabeth:

she was so smart. Like she was like matching the cards with like the bingo

Ashley:

cards so fast,

Elizabeth:

So fast, so fast. And I'm, I was still trying to sound out the word and she'd already found

Ashley:

Yeah. We're over here. Like irritate tour. That was it.

Elizabeth:

it. That was it. Like, how is a child supposed to like, say this word? I can't even say it. But then again, I can hardly speak, so it's fine.

Ashley:

Words are hard

Elizabeth:

they are, and I am a podcaster, doop dip dip dip dip. Like, I can't get it out. Oh my goodness. Um, Hmm. So, Naya comes, but then something else happened. You and, you and your partner separate, right?

Ashley:

separate, right? We did. So, about a year after I had Naya, we got divorced. And that was the hardest decision that I've ever had to make in my life. And it was a necessary decision. So when I think about. My divorce. You know, on platforms like this, I want to be very mindful and intentional of how I speak about it, because it's such a personal journey. It's such a,

Elizabeth:

families

Ashley:

you know, families are separated, hearts are broken, relationships, some are ruined, some are, You know, it's, there's so much pain that comes into it, and the pain that leads up to it as well is so great.

Elizabeth:

as so

Ashley:

for me, without going into everything,

Elizabeth:

where

Ashley:

where I was in that time was, life was so heavy. And so much had built up to that space,

Elizabeth:

spoken

Ashley:

to where,

Elizabeth:

I

Ashley:

I've always spoken my truth. I can't, you'll know exactly how I feel in the moment. And that's something that I've also had to work on over the years, right?

Elizabeth:

to,

Ashley:

a practice, like everything, but just came down to, I no longer had a partner that was

Elizabeth:

to

Ashley:

compatible with me.

Elizabeth:

so much time, so

Ashley:

it didn't seem like it was going to get there.

Elizabeth:

our

Ashley:

Even though time, oh, so much time, so many opportunities, so much trying in our own ways. And of course there's always more that we could have done. And of course it takes two,

Elizabeth:

of

Ashley:

right? Like it's not all, I'm the one that wanted a divorce, but it's not all on him, by any means. I was so, such a big part in all of that, in my own ways, with my own traumas, my own stuff.

Elizabeth:

of that,

Ashley:

And

Elizabeth:

ways, my own

Ashley:

I leaned really hard into my practices, my meditations,

Elizabeth:

hypnotherapy,

Ashley:

my hypnotherapy,

Elizabeth:

with not only friends

Ashley:

deep conversations with not only friends but therapists. I dove into, you know, podcast after podcast and

Elizabeth:

this

Ashley:

I took so much time just sitting with

Elizabeth:

was,

Ashley:

was serving me every day. And it was, it took me from the moment that I knew I was going to leave.

Elizabeth:

8

Ashley:

It took me eight months to get to the space to be able to actually say the words. And in that eight month period was such a hopeful, such a fear, such a, I mean I had a baby. You know? Yeah.

Elizabeth:

You know?

Ashley:

And that's not a light decision whatsoever. And she needs both of us.

Elizabeth:

us. And

Ashley:

And I'm about to

Elizabeth:

I wanted

Ashley:

take away something from her that I always wanted growing up too. You know, my parents weren't together. They were never even married and my dad wasn't in my life.

Elizabeth:

Yeah,

Ashley:

And so

Elizabeth:

dad so,

Ashley:

it's just not something that even an ounce of me took lightly.

Elizabeth:

took lightly.

Ashley:

No matter what anyone thinks along the journey, you know, it's, and it's so personal.

Elizabeth:

say all of

Ashley:

And so to say all of that,

Elizabeth:

Um, grief

Ashley:

there's been deep times of sorrow and grief and mourning and moments where I felt low and depressed, but never did I stay there. Never did it roll over me or control me. Don't get me wrong. I had moments where I was on my,

Elizabeth:

was just

Ashley:

The floor in my bathroom sobbing, crying for hours and just holding myself like I was just a little baby. Like

Elizabeth:

through

Ashley:

what the fuck am I doing? I'm blowing up my life. Like I, you know, you go through every kind of thought and emotion behind it. And then I just love the shit out of myself through it. And I kept telling myself, I'm strong. I'm smart. I am powerful and I am capable of making decisions to love myself and trust myself, no matter what that looks like or feels like to anybody else, because no one is having to live in me or through me, except for me. And as long as I'm making these decisions from a place of loving myself first, Loving my daughter, next, and then also loving her father, the man who is always going to be in her life, and also has to raise her from a place of all of this, and try to figure out how to heal himself. And I think that that's so important to think about throughout the process of divorce, too. And I understand why women stay.

Elizabeth:

I I

Ashley:

Oh, I understand why women stay. Because that's your baby. And it's also someone that you loved for so long. That was your, hopefully, best friend for part of it. And now you kind of have to break them apart.

Elizabeth:

Mm. Mm.

Ashley:

this over. And you have to figure out some way to do that too. But I can't be the person that holds you through it. And then I have to look at my daughter. It's scary. And think like, ah, baby I'm sorry, like, you're gonna feel this and there's a lesson in it.

Elizabeth:

I'm also a big

Ashley:

also a big believer that

Elizabeth:

We chose these

Ashley:

have soul contracts.

Elizabeth:

even came

Ashley:

We chose these lessons in life before we even came onto this earth.

Elizabeth:

she chose me

Ashley:

And if I believe that,

Elizabeth:

him as

Ashley:

then I believe that she chose me as her mom. She chose him as her father. And she chose these lessons in life that are gonna come. And I know that as long as I'm loving myself, she's gonna see that, she's gonna know how to love herself, and then give that out. Because that's what it is. If we're giving ourselves love, we give that back out, inevitably.

Elizabeth:

We do. Period.

Ashley:

Period. If we give ourselves hate, we give that back out. So you choose. That's it.

Elizabeth:

love

Ashley:

chose to love myself through this.

Elizabeth:

Mmm. That's beautiful. Sorry. Uh, that was, that was, um,

Ashley:

was,

Elizabeth:

every word you were just saying. Mmm. Mmm.

Ashley:

so, um, such

Elizabeth:

so honest. I don't think I've ever heard that said, I've never heard divorce spoken in such a beautiful, honest, raw way. But you're right, you chose to love yourself.

Ashley:

of

Elizabeth:

didn't have this perspective

Ashley:

did you?

Elizabeth:

I mean, even up to now too, like, so I'm a year out from the divorce last year. It's been such a rollercoaster, so many big, raw emotions, and you're also just

Ashley:

And you're also just like maintaining yourself. You're maintaining your triggers. Because you and your ex partner know each other's biggest buttons to be able to push. You were with each other for so long. You got to the point of divorce because you're triggering each other constantly, right? And now that you're no longer in this place of partnership in a romantic way, and there's heartbreak involved in it,

Elizabeth:

you

Ashley:

Like, it's, you get raw,

Elizabeth:

you

Ashley:

you do, and you have to keep coming back to,

Elizabeth:

it's just

Ashley:

like, it's just peace now. Like, it has to be just peace. Especially around Naya. And for the most part, we do. I give us a lot of props. We do have a lot of peace. Um, there's still communication that I think we'll forever have to work on,

Elizabeth:

You know? And

Ashley:

each other's lives, too.

Elizabeth:

know. And I

Ashley:

No matter what, you know? And I love him. I do, I love him. As a person, like, just cause I'm not in love with him anymore. I never stopped loving who he was. He's so beautiful, like, I'm not gonna be with someone who I'm not gonna love as a human being for that long. Have a baby with. You know, like, no.

Elizabeth:

Like, he's cool.

Ashley:

He's amazing. He's beautiful. He's handsome. He's strong. He's amazing. He's the father of my kid, and I'm forever grateful that he's a good fucking dad. He is. And it's so, that makes it so much harder sometimes, right? When it's all of those aspects are there and it's such a beautiful human being, and it's like you know that you served your purpose together in this world, because we had not. Like, definitely, we're supposed to have her.

Elizabeth:

I agree. And

Ashley:

Like, it's, it's just not, um, we're just on different frequencies.

Elizabeth:

just in different places.

Ashley:

months. How

Elizabeth:

when did you start to feel more like yourself? And that might be a loaded question, because that's always evolving, right? And maybe perspectives and things have changed, because now you're a mother going through this, this huge change. You're no longer all over the world, like you're in your, your hometown how was that,

Ashley:

transition period,

Elizabeth:

that transition period, I guess?

Ashley:

that

Elizabeth:

As I just think about that one photo shoot you did and it's like where you had that red like silk sheet or something, piece of cloth and it was like, just everyone listening like picture like the most divine feminine like goddess energy dancing in the wilderness

Ashley:

like, I

Elizabeth:

on guys silly, but like just I just remember, like, the flowing of your hair and your body, and I remember that post. I don't know why, I just remember, and I feel like that is what started our whole conversations about what was going on, I don't know, it was just, it was beautiful, so I'm just curious, like, how did you get to that point? How did you step back into your feminine, and is that something you've always struggled with? curious, like, leaning into your feminine side, and, and, or, and,

Ashley:

feminine

Elizabeth:

Balancing the masculinity.

Ashley:

balancing the masculinity? I feel Okay. Right? All the questions.

Elizabeth:

I didn't do that. I need to be better about

Ashley:

do that. I, uh, so that post actually That, uh, photo shoot was done in Australia out in the bush at golden hour and I, it was a nude shoot. It was with a friend who was doing this lighting and photography and asked me to be a model. And it was one of those moments where I've, and I'd never done any, like a nude shoot before. But I, I don't, I'm very embracing of my body. I, like, we all have boobs. I don't care. I'll, I'll, but it was so, I just felt powerful. I was like, yes, because I didn't feel like I had to hide anything. I was embracing it. And so, yeah, those pictures, they hold a special place in my heart because it showed a side of myself that I feel I am and I emanate and it captured that in a moment in time that was so beautiful. That was during COVID too. And I was

Elizabeth:

was, you

Ashley:

you're in, you're spiraling around fear, and then you have this place of peace and power, and it was, yeah,

Elizabeth:

was, yeah,

Ashley:

it was all the beautiful things. But to say that, that post was a moment that was right after I told him I wanted my divorce, and it, I had never felt so sure of who I am. and exactly what I wanted in life. Like, especially in a partnership, it was gonna help me raise a child, help me grow within life, grow within my business, adventure with me, play with me, love, nurture, you know, in all the ways that I need. Because my ex was beautiful and he helped me heal so much and serve so much and then it's like we got to grow. A place of stalemate. Our bodies were no longer connecting. We were no longer dating. We were no longer communicating. And that went on for years and just kind of stacked up.

Elizabeth:

kind of stacked

Ashley:

he didn't know how to meet me or try to meet me. And I chose to continue to meet myself. And I realized I want someone in a partnership

Elizabeth:

that

Ashley:

that is going to do that. Like, it's our love languages. It's not just mine.

Elizabeth:

You

Ashley:

You know, and I realize that that's really important to me. Like, you don't have to be

Elizabeth:

have to be

Ashley:

a full on yogi, you know, deep in everything, because I'm not. Like, I,

Elizabeth:

just want

Ashley:

just want someone to play and adventure and wants to continuously grow and love and is motivated and strong and trusting and adventure. I can't say adventure enough because that's so my love language, you know, and it's, you

Elizabeth:

like just

Ashley:

Like, just constantly trying to tap into mind, body, soul connection. That's it. And,

Elizabeth:

When

Ashley:

just knowing that I can have that. When I said I wanted a divorce, it was a freeing of shackles in a sense.

Elizabeth:

And

Ashley:

And then,

Elizabeth:

can manifest the life again

Ashley:

oh, I can manifest the life again that I want now. Like, I've done this before. And I know I can do it again. And I know I have to do it in a different way now that I have a child, that I have a home, I have my own business, you know, I have dogs, I have responsibilities. And in my twenties, through my vagabond days, that was something that I wasn't tied to. I was never tied to a home. I was never grounded, you know, with a family that sat here. And that's another thing with divorce, is, you know, it gets complicated when you have a child. If you want to move, or if you want to start something over, especially when we have 50, 50 time with her. Because that's important, right? Again, she needs both of us, and that's something we'll never ever take away from her. Never make her choose, like this is her journey through it too. And so, as soon as everything hit, as soon as I had the free shackles and decision to make, like, I got deep into my practices. And I got deep into my healing work even more than leading up to that.

Elizabeth:

you also

Ashley:

And then you also get deep into the reality.

Elizabeth:

to go

Ashley:

And Naya starts to go seven days with her father

Elizabeth:

actually took

Ashley:

and then seven days it actually took some time to build up to that but

Elizabeth:

what we

Ashley:

what we did and Man, that's been the hardest part of this entire thing is letting go of control

Elizabeth:

Hmm. I struggle with control myself. I'm sure a lot of us do, but that's, that's hard. So it's been a year. So where, where are you and your practices and your love for you now? Hmm. I'm currently

Ashley:

I'm currently doing a five week summer challenge around removing your biggest block in life. It's getting in the way of whatever you look to manifest. So I'm part of this group called To Be Magnetic. And, um, they work with

Elizabeth:

Magnetic. Okay. And,

Ashley:

Modern day meditations, hypnotherapies, EMDR, journaling, and um, throughout it's just a structured five week challenge to get to that biggest block and then utilize all of these tools to rewire the neuroplasticity in your brain so that your subconscious isn't directly going to that protection mode, right? We've come up with all of these. It's ways to protect ourselves from our childhood woundings that we continuously walk around living with, some of us, our entire lives because we don't try to go to the source and heal our childlike self that took on that wounding.

Elizabeth:

wounding. Wow. So that's,

Ashley:

So that's, that's a big practice that I'm working with right now. And I love it. Oh, I love it so much.

Elizabeth:

so much.

Ashley:

But, as well, just um,

Elizabeth:

sure

Ashley:

Making sure I'm constantly moving my body every day, loving it, putting good serving foods into it, putting good serving entertainment. You know, it's like we all have our scrolling moments or TV and I'm just making sure right now that

Elizabeth:

it's

Ashley:

it's just filled with a lot of love and not coming from a place of fear. That was a big thing right when I had the divorce. I can no longer watch scary movies, murder movies, murder mystery documentaries, like, it just puts me in a place of anxiety and fear that serves me in no way, shape, or form. And I don't need to allow that energy in, especially when I'm in such a vulnerable place and needing to heal. So I cleared that out. I cleared out a lot of news and media, not everything, because with my real estate business, I stay connected. And I want to make sure that I know what's going on in the world to an extent, but I don't let it come in and take over. My mindset is, if I can't do anything right now directly to shift this or change this, or I can't put a vote in right now, or I can't, then there's no purpose of me knowing right now, I'm not, I'm not going to do anything. Except for fueling anxiety and a fear. that serves no great purpose. I need to come from a place of love and healing so I can give that back out. You know, and I'm slowly with the election coming up letting things start to come in a little bit more. So I am educated and mindful. Even in, and it's a great practice in that too. It's when I'm annoyed or feel triggered with something that comes up in the news or I disagree. It's, I come back to my breath work and it's like, okay.

Elizabeth:

like, okay, it's

Ashley:

This It's fine. This is just what it is. Let me laugh about it, and let's go feed the plants. Let's go for a walk outside barefoot. Like, it's cool. That

Elizabeth:

cool. That is so grounding. I'm also just like taking in like, here we are in this room that is like so epic. Like, this room heals. This room you've created heals. And it's just,

Ashley:

I love

Elizabeth:

love this conversation and like the way that the, me, like. I don't know, everything just seems to flow right now, in this moment, um, and I feel like if I've learned, I've learned a lot this weekend, believe it or not, um, but grounding is very important and um, if you have a strong grounding when you get side swiped by your anxiety or side swiped by a spiral or something, it's gonna, that's what's gonna help you get back. Like, either A, combat it, like, well, block it. You have no space here. No, thank you. That's how I visualize my anxiety and my mental thoughts sometimes. Like that's cause they're constant and never ending. So I literally think of like blocking and like deterring it. Um, but, to hear you speak of such heavy moments and like to see you come out on the other side so to speak of, and I'm not saying you're out of the woods. Like, cause again, that's the theme. We are never out of the woods. Like we're always working on ourselves and always striving. It's beautiful and I hope that others listening like they can find that acceptance that you do deserve that peace and you do deserve that love and I love that you really spoke to that.

Ashley:

to out

Elizabeth:

How do you feel now a year out in all these pleasure practices and mindful practices and intention settings and all of this and your beautiful daughter to grow, be growing the way that she is and to be as like, Your mini me is possible like that child is so cute and she is definitely beaten to her own drum. I love it How is your feminine divine goddess energy? How do you feel? How do you feel on your own frequency now?

Ashley:

your own frequency now? Hmm. I feel good. I do. I really feel like, you know, I have my moments. I have my days. Everything is a season. If you had asked me this question back in the beginning of the year, it would have been a totally different answer. I was on a lower frequency. We were coming out of winter, trying to go into spring, come back to life. It was my first holiday session, you know, divorced and navigating. And so, summer is very much my season. And it's warm, and there's so much sunlight, and I spend so much time outside. And that's, that's kind of the energy that I feel. Like, I feel like I'm just kind of light right now. And work is coming up around me, and I'm also trying to give a lot of grace to this healing time. Because I don't look at it as constantly working on myself. I look at it as continuously loving myself.

Elizabeth:

Ooh, oh, my lord, I love

Ashley:

They changed that verbiage right there, and that's where the power

Elizabeth:

on a shirt. That was beautiful I'm gonna channel that that is because I do say that often like I'm constantly working on myself, but I mean it like that I'm continually loving myself

Ashley:

You don't need to be worked on.

Elizabeth:

Girl take my breath away. Oh my goodness snaps. Holy shit Mmm Wow

Ashley:

Sorry, I'm still

Elizabeth:

Sorry, I'm still reeling from that, that was epic, um, that's beautiful. So what is, I don't, I don't know if advice is the right word or advice, techniques, I don't know if for anyone else and whether they're going through a divorce or they're going through a major life shift, maybe they just have lost touch with who they are and trying to find that sense of self again and find that love. What are what is like some grounding techniques that you could recommend or or even just mindful practices?

Ashley:

So I will share what I share with yoga, um, and just in my own practices, but everyone's so unique, right? You're really going to find your own thing that works. And the biggest advice that I could give if you're in one of these chapters is find your community. No matter what that is, I know so many of us want to just retreat and retract and say that we're introverts and in moments, we do need that. We do need that space and that alone time and healing. But it's so easy to get lost there and you heal, you get through the hard times so much more gracefully, maybe not faster because that's not the point. It's not a point of the human experience. You're supposed to experience it, not just get on to the next thing.

Elizabeth:

not just get on to the

Ashley:

Right? And so it's find your community that feeds your soul, whatever that is, and give it as much love as you possibly can. And it's just going to pour into you in the most beautiful ways, and you're going to come back. You're going to, you're going to walk into this next chapter. Where you come back into your light, and you get out of the dark, and you're going to feel so much more like yourself than you might ever have. And it's so fucking worth it. And you are so fucking worth it. That

Elizabeth:

whether you're, I don't even know, transitioning to something, job, career, life, mmm. It's a good reminder for us all and to continually be loving yourself. I love, I, that is my new, my new thing that I'm going to say that to myself. Anytime I find myself spiraling, whatever, cause that is so much stronger than, yeah, we're constantly working on ourselves. It is amazing. Like when they say sticks and stones, I'm like sticks and stones. Yeah. They break our bones and words never hurt you. No words are powerful.

Ashley:

words never hurt you, but

Elizabeth:

words can change your whole universe. Well,

Ashley:

your whole universe. Well, it was like we were saying just yesterday, the opposite frequency of love isn't hate, it's fear. Yeah.

Elizabeth:

in such

Ashley:

fear. If you hate, you're in such a deep place of fear and you don't have to stay there. Like, that fear doesn't exist when you are in a total place of love. You don't have to have any fear. You're safe. You're at peace.

Elizabeth:

And it's

Ashley:

And it's a practice, right? Everything. Keep coming back to it. But, just love. That's it. Um, and peace, that's, that's

Elizabeth:

And peace, that's, that's the answer we all want. It's definitely what I've been striving for lately. I did a, uh, birth chart reading earlier this year from the person you recommended, um, Deborah Silverman. Well, she didn't do it because she's very expensive, but her team, one of her people on her team did, I think I talked about this on the podcast, and she shared with me that my biggest obstacle in this lifetime is protecting my peace from my mind.

Ashley:

but I've been very

Elizabeth:

And I, it's like ever since that call out, and not that I didn't notice it before, but I've been very aware of it and I'm like, wow, I can ruined, I don't want to say ruin, that's a very extreme word, but like I can make something less pleasurable, you know, maybe dim the brightness a little bit because of my anxiety or because of my overthinking or because once you start going, it's easier to, to, for your brain to be like, oh, well now you're just less than, or now it's not going to happen and I don't have those spirals too, too often now, but. Um, I'm very mindful of it and yeah, go back to peace, go back to loving myself, going back to

Ashley:

going back

Elizabeth:

like manifesting the life I want and like knowing that I have that power and not letting that fear, because my fear is anxiety. I know anxiety is fear, fear of the unknown, fear of the control. I think control is a thing I have to work on. so it's a good reminder for that. I completely agree. so do you have any, grounding techniques you'd like to share for anyone listening on how to maybe tap into their feminine energy. When they feel a little all over the place, they feel a little wily. Maybe they feel a little disconnected from theirself.

Ashley:

Yeah, you want to do a little something something?

Elizabeth:

I

Ashley:

right when you said that, it started to rain down. My roof here in the Florida room is just a little tin roof, so it'll be so wonderful. Alright, well, get cozy. We'll drop in. Whether you're seated, lying down, even if you're driving in a car right now, listening to this, We're just gonna get into our parasympathetic nervous system, that rest, digest, peace state. So, if you have, um, your arms crossed in any way, uncross them, lay some palms face down on top of your thighs, just so they have a purposeful place to rest, and then if you feel safe, close your eyes, not if you're driving,

Elizabeth:

eyes. Not if you're

Ashley:

your eyes,

Elizabeth:

eyes. And let's breath

Ashley:

and let's take a deep breath in through the nose.

Elizabeth:

Take a moment.

Ashley:

Open the mouth. Let it go. One more time. Inhale. Exhale. Just gently seal your lips. Take a moment to just notice how you're showing up. Right here. Right now.

Elizabeth:

here, right now, is bring

Ashley:

No matter what that answer is. Don't bring in judgment. Just accept it.

Elizabeth:

your head. Notice the space between your eyes.

Ashley:

And just notice the space around the crown of your head. Notice the space between your eyes. Let your eyelids become a little bit heavier. Relax your jaw. Release the tongue from the roof of the mouth. Notice the space around your throat.

Elizabeth:

throat. What is the space

Ashley:

Relax your shoulders down.

Elizabeth:

hips? I'm straight. Soles

Ashley:

Relax your arms totally,

Elizabeth:

big squeeze. Maybe

Ashley:

relax your hands,

Elizabeth:

That was

Ashley:

fingers,

Elizabeth:

for

Ashley:

again and notice the space around your heart, and then your belly, relax your belly, notice your hips, your glutes, tops of the thighs, hamstrings, knees, shins. Calves, ankles, tops of the feet, soles of the feet. And take a full breath in, and let it go. Bring one hand to the heart, one hand to the belly. And take a moment to name three things that you love about you. Once you've named those three things, in your own way, in your own words, just tell yourself, I love you, and I'm grateful for you. And wrap your arms around yourself, give yourself a big squeeze, a little hug, maybe a kiss, shoulder to shoulder. Thank you for the moment of peace. Thank you for the moment of love. Thank you for the reminder. I deserve this. And then slowly open your eyes. And come back.

Elizabeth:

Just sitting with the love for myself. Like, I'm so used to the internet, like the negative narrative. It was so beautiful to hear the positive.

Ashley:

And that's you. That's all you, girl.

Elizabeth:

Didn't expect to get emotional. And then the rain, it was like just so perfect. I started smiling when I heard that. Yeah, that's exactly how I felt.

Ashley:

felt.

Elizabeth:

Wow. And

Ashley:

It doesn't take long. That probably took three minutes, maybe a little bit more. You can take three minutes in your day. You can take ten minutes in your day to love yourself intentionally. You know, even if you're washing your face at the end of the day, instead of just washing it, like Oh, my face is so beautiful. I'm gonna clean you so kindly. You're gonna be so beautiful and glowing. And it might sound silly, but those little shifts that you do and the practices that we do every single day to take care of ourselves, do it from a place of love. And it becomes a ceremony. And that trickles out into everything else that you do.

Elizabeth:

It doesn't become, it's not a chore, it's

Ashley:

a chore. It's

Elizabeth:

it's a ritual, I love that, it's so beautiful.

Ashley:

you ness. Giving me space

Elizabeth:

for sharing you, sharing your ewness,

Ashley:

like I need more than anything.

Elizabeth:

And being comfortable and safe. I don't know. Thank you. That was,

Ashley:

I love

Elizabeth:

I feel like I needed that more than anything and I'm sure others listening are going to need it too. I love you. Like I'm just like tears like welling in my eyes. I'm just like, I just want to give you the biggest hug.

Ashley:

truly be so

Elizabeth:

Thank you for showing me why it's so important. To truly be so in touch with yourself,

Ashley:

it comes to

Elizabeth:

it's not something to ignore. We do not need to ignore anything when it comes to us not loving ourselves, like, fully. And thank you for showing me that even in the

Ashley:

the hurriedness

Elizabeth:

hurriedness of the day or the thousand line item to do list, this still matters. And I'm willing to bet that me taking some of, like taking this type of intention setting and mindfulness,

Ashley:

my I feel like it's

Elizabeth:

I feel like it's going to help the anxiety and the ADHD and like the thought spiral. I'm not saying it's going to cure it, that's my quest of the life, I've already said that, I know that's my journey this lifetime, but it's something that's going to make it easier and help it. So. Thank you. You're welcome.

Ashley:

help it. So. I'm glad to share. Anytime, girl. Because I think it also

Elizabeth:

because I think it also will feed into the things that I said that I love about myself too. One of the things I said was my dreams.

Ashley:

said was my dreams. Mmm.

Elizabeth:

I really do love that about me, to think that I can do it, to know that I can do it.

Ashley:

Because if you're already dreaming it, it's already there. Your life is showing you.

Elizabeth:

Yep. I agree.

Ashley:

My

Elizabeth:

My goodness. Well, um, Do you want to tee up your social media at all for anyone to, if anybody would like to follow you and follow the mindful practices? Because I feel like you do share that kind of content.

Ashley:

like you're, you do share that kind of content. My public Instagram, I did a big, I called it a purge. I don't know if I want to call it a purge anymore, but a boundary setting on the energy that I allow in my space. So that one is if you're not in a really close inner circle with me, unless we become that, that's, that's for that space. But I do share a ton on my, even with my yoga practices on my real estate. Instagram page and that's at Ashley Rossi realtor So follow me on there. You'll always see beautiful stories and posts of the water and what's going on down here on the gulf and My yoga practices and my cool kids. Oh, yeah

Elizabeth:

then you might find yourself moving down here, you know? Who doesn't want

Ashley:

doesn't want to live at the beach, I mean, I know some people don't it's not the vibe it's not their calling place You But, if it is, and you haven't been down here to the beaches in Alabama, I've lived all over the world, y'all, and there's something special here. They're

Elizabeth:

following me there, that's, uh, at the in between podcast.

Ashley:

things

Elizabeth:

And then I'll be sharing clips and things like that. So you can follow me on Instagram at in. betweenpod and elizabethcini underscore. Um, and if you like today's episode, please share it with a friend, a sister, a mother, an aunt, um, your coworker, maybe your neighbor, maybe the public's checkout worker. Maybe they need a nice pick me up. I don't know.

Ashley:

new friend and share.

Elizabeth:

think everyone could take something from this.

Ashley:

to share the love. We

Elizabeth:

share the love. Aww. It's all love. so much

Ashley:

you so much for sharing your space with me. This was really cool.

Elizabeth:

Mmm. Alright. Well, until next time.

Ashley:

Until next time!

Elizabeth:

Bye.

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