http://www.evolvingwithashley.com/

Ashley's Planet, Toronto, ON (2025)

07/10/2025

Today is my birthday 🙏🏼🎉

And I am landing.

Which seems like the simplest thing - and it is.

Landing is the act of presence, and that's the intention I am setting for this year.

Presence.

Being here.

Softly rooted.

Body, mind, spirit and soul. 💫

07/02/2025

‘Evolving with Ashley’ has softly rooted into something new…

After years of holding space for so many of you, a more profound truth began whispering:

🪴go slower,

🌿grow softer,

🌳root deeper.

Introducing my new chapter:

A sanctuary for tender hearts, fast minds, and the sacred somatic journey of coming home to yourself.

Same heart, same healing- just a softer name.

💫 My new website is softly unfolding.. Stay tuned.

I'm so honoured to walk this journey with you.

From my soft, tender heart,

Ashley MacKenzie

06/11/2025

The truth is that the more time you spend in your body and building body resources (through somatic work 😉), the more opportunities you give yourself for empowerment.

The more powerful and genuine you feel in your body, the more you can identify and modulate your emotions, which means less time caught in emotional well spirals.

Changing your responses to life means changing the reactions in your nervous system.

That's how you create new neuropathways: by disrupting old patterns, stretching them out, and making room for new patterns and pathways to occur.

When you begin to create these new patterns, you start to feel safer in your body. Your body becomes a place of friendliness and truth.

You begin to realize that no matter what you face in life, you have built body resources that can help you regulate and return to safety.

That's the power of somatics.
That's the power of EMPOWERMENT.

Ready to begin?

Comment I AM READY below, and let's chat!

06/05/2025

So you've set a new goal.
You choose the time that you will work toward it.
You start taking the steps towards it.
You are excited about the possibilities this new habit will bring to your life.

It is two weeks of high energy and enthusiasm, and then…

BOOM 🔥

You begin to skip one day.
You begin to talk yourself out of the positives or this new habit.
You begin talking negatively towards yourself.
You start to believe the negative self-talk.
And then, finally, you stop working towards that new goal or habit.
Then you shame yourself for giving up.

Does this sound familiar?

I've been there 🙋🏻‍♀️

And I am here to tell you this:

In order to make lasting changes or develop new habits, you have to let go of your mind and get into your body.

Your nervous system creates your experiences, responses, habits, thoughts, emotions—everything.

If your body isn't on board with change- meaning you aren't working with your nervous system to get to the root cause of your self-talk or sabotage- any change you try to make will eventually feel like a threat to your nervous system.

Your nervous system registers change as a threat and puts you into survival mode—not because it doesn't want you to succeed and thrive but because it lacks the resources to support this change and shift.

So, if you want to achieve a goal, create new habits, or have a healthier mindset, you have to work the body so the body can work the mind.

The change MUST happen in the nervous system.

You have to make room, capacity, and expansion within your body so you can hold, create, build, and sustain this new change.

The body keeps the score.
The body creates your reality.

So, if you want to change your external world, you first have to change your internal one.

Ready to dive in?

Please send me a DM, and let's chat!

06/03/2025

Your yearning is what you are yearning for.

Your quest to find and discover your purpose is about the gift of repair.

What was the need that was not met?

From my own experience, my passion for helping others heal stemmed from the need to repair the feeling of isolation and the inability to reach out for support.

Maybe your purpose in creating is to repair the feeling of not having your voice or your thoughts expressed and validated.

Whatever the desired purpose is, there is a longing for repair, a desire to give others what one did not receive.

Working together, we work on reparative experiences.

What does that mean?

It's about making room in your system for the longing and the yearning. It's about safely returning to those experiences and hearing what needed to happen but didn't.

It's about going back to those moments, witnessing yourself, and giving yourself the gift of being seen, heard, validated, and loved.

It's about moving you into NOW moments and WOW moments.
Allowing you to learn how to identify who you are and make space for that truth to be ALIVE.

If you sat here right now and were curious about your purpose, what do you think you would be in search of? What need didn't get met?

If you feel courageous enough to share, comment below- I am here to listen 👂

06/02/2025

Being asked to keep the secrets of your experiences is what keeps trauma survivors in a chronic state of regulation.

Being unable to share your story of what you experienced and how you survived is silencing a need.

Storytelling is healing.
It is also an opportunity to be validated, seen, experienced, held and supported.

It's the recognition that YOU matter.

When we work together 1:1, it's an opportunity to share your stories.
It is an opportunity to finally be held in your experiences, given resources to help you get the regulation you did not receive, and most importantly, to change the story within your nervous system.

I know you hope you can go back and change what happened- but in the reality of life, we can't change what happened- however, YOU CAN change how you respond to it.

And that's really how you change the story—by changing how you respond to it.

🌱Through somatic work, you make room for your voice to be heard.
🌱Through somatic work, you make room for expansion beyond the constriction of your experiences.
🌱Through somatic work, you build the capacity to be with the hard but also to soften and release the charge of the experience.
🌱Through somatic work, you get access to new resources, new opportunities to respond and most importantly, the resources to build and live an exciting and expansive life.

How amazing does that sound?

DM me for more info on how we can work together.

05/28/2025

Embodiment is a choice.

You get to choose life and how you want to live it.

Embodiment is acceptance.

It's knowing that all parts of you exist, and sometimes those “hard” parts become exposed and need recognition and healing.

It's knowing that you can learn to stretch out peace and happiness and allow both edges to move and expand.

It's knowing that the parts of you that feel peaceful, loving, encouraged and happy are a felt sense that can be found in your body.

Through our time together, you'll embody the knowledge that you don't have to go outside of yourself to find peace, love, or happiness—that it can be found in your body and, most importantly, that it exists.

Stretching your nervous system is such a profound practice of capacity and containment.

Learning how to stretch the good parts so they can be felt deeply and not feel like a small blip of time but rather an experience of what life can be like—and then choosing them because you taught your body how to contain them.

And just like “happy” senses, you can learn how to stretch the “hard” ones so you can actually sit and contain the hard parts. Stretching means they expand and do not feel bigger and overwhelming; no, the expansion means YOU have more resiliency inside of you to be a witness. And when you learn to sit with it, you know how to regulate yourself and choose differently.

Embodiment is a choice.

Somatic care is the medicine 🌱

Tap the link in my bio to book a call with me!

05/26/2025

To my complex trauma, PTSD, and trauma survivor warriors, I want you to know this:

You are capable of developing a capacity to contain a new life, a new vision, a big goal, happiness, and healing.

You are capable of creating a vision of the future that does not have ruminants of your past.

With the approach of regulation, modulation, and pendulation, we can create continuous opportunities to envision a happier future, healthier scenarios, and exciting goals.

Somatic care, with me, is a gentle but effective approach that lets your nervous system know it is capable and able to engage HAPPIER with life.

Somatic care is a gift of experiencing a new life, a new you, a new way of being, feeling and sitting in happiness.

Ready to walk with me?

Comment "I AM READY" below, and I'll send you a direct message about how to get started!

05/26/2025

To my complex trauma, PTSD, and trauma survivor warriors, I want you to know this:

You are capable of developing a capacity to contain a new life, a new vision, a big goal, happiness, and healing.

You are capable of creating a vision of the future that does not have ruminants of your past.

With the approach of regulation, modulation, and pendulation, we can create continuous opportunities to envision a happier future, healthier scenarios, and exciting goals.

Somatic care, with me, is a gentle but effective approach that lets your nervous system know it is capable and able to engage HAPPIER with life.

Somatic care is a gift of experiencing a new life, a new you, a new way of being, feeling and sitting in happiness.

Ready to walk with me?

Comment "I AM READY" below, and I'll send you a direct message about how to get started!

05/20/2025

Hustle culture is what I like to call “SURVIVAL MODE” culture.

Hustle culture doesn't have enough room for connection.

Connection can only take place in the slowness of life.

When you practice slowness, you deepen the bonds of humanhood within yourself.

You learn how to regulate so you can facilitate co-regulation within your community, your relationships, and yourself.

Somatic care is about creating a culture of slowness.
It's about making room for your humanness to expand, align, heal and grow.

Slowness offers an even deeper clarity that you'll ever receive from hustling.

We are currently at the border of people walking up to the toxicity of hustle and beginning to crave the warmth and tenderness that slowness provides.

And I'm here for it.

I am ready to guide you back into grace and clarity.

Ready to begin?

Comment “I AM READY” below, and I'll DM you!

05/02/2025

YOU CAN NOT CHANGE THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED TO YOU
BUT YOU CAN CHANGE HOW YOU RESPOND TO THEM

Send me a message, and let's chat about somatics and how to regulate and fill you with the capacity to choose how you want to live your life!

Ashley's Planet

07/10/2025

07/02/2025

06/11/2025

06/05/2025

06/03/2025

06/02/2025

05/28/2025

05/26/2025

05/26/2025

05/20/2025

05/02/2025

Address

Website

Alerts

Contact The Practice

Shortcuts

Share