Reclaim Within the Podcast: Emotional, Spiritual, & Somatic Intelligence

Ep. 38 - We Are Living Through a Renaissance

Ep. 38 - My prayer for you is that this episode helps you recognize this time as a turning point, in both personal & collective consciousness, so you can meet it with greater trust, clarity, & intention. We are living through one of the densest periods of human history. So much has shifted, so quickly, that it can feel as though the ground keeps moving beneath our feet. But this is not random chaos. This is the atmosphere of a renaissance. In this episode, I’m sitting with what this moment in history is actually asking of us, why so much is falling apart, what the rare Saturn-Neptune-Aries alignment means for collective consciousness, and why the hunger so many of us are feeling for real connection is not a coincidence. It is a sign of something new being born. This episode is for anyone who has been feeling the weight of this time & is looking for a reframe, one that moves from fear into trust, from reaction into co-creation. In this episode we explore: * Why this moment in history is not random chaos — it is the atmosphere of a renaissance * What the last renaissance can teach us about what we’re living through now * The rare Saturn-Neptune-Aries alignment & why it has always coincided with major turning points in human consciousness * Why things are falling apart — and why that is an invitation, not a punishment * The hunger for real connection rising beneath the surface of our culture * How to become a story maker & co-creator of what comes next * Why this is a pinnacle year — one we will look back on as a turning point A question to sit with after listening: How do we participate in the coming together, instead of only reacting to the collapse? If this resonated with you: 💛 Leave a review — it means so much & helps this work reach more people 💛 Share this episode with someone who needs a reframe on this moment in time 💛 Tag me on Instagram — I love hearing what lands for you Connect with me: 📱 Instagram: @reclaimwithin [https://www.instagram.com/reclaimwithin] 🌐 Website: reclaimwithin.co [https://reclaimwithin.co/] 📝 Substack: reclaimwithin.substack.com [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/] 📩 Email: reclaimwithin@gmail.com Ready to go deeper? Become a paid subscriber at reclaimwithin.substack.com [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/] to join my monthly live Zoom calls where we gather & work towards Reclaiming Within together. Paid subscribers will also be the first to know when the Building Inner Kingdoms course launches. Within Love, Ash Get full access to Reclaim Within: Remember You are Sacred at reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Ep. - 37. Ego, You Are Not the Enemy

Ep. 37 - My prayer for you is that you learn to stop fighting the parts of yourself you were taught to distrust. That you find your way — slowly & tenderly — back to wholeness. Not the wholeness that looks polished & certain from the outside, but the real kind. The kind that has room for all of you. In this episode, I’m talking about something I don’t hear discussed enough in healing & spiritual spaces… the demonizing of the ego, and why I think that’s its own kind of trap. We talk about the large spectrum most of us are living on, the prayer that has become one of my most consistent allies, and why the ego guided by the soul doesn’t need to be silenced, it needs to be led. With love. With wisdom. This episode is for anyone who has ever been told to transcend the ego, eradicate it, or rise above it & felt like something about that didn’t quite sit right. In this episode we explore: * Why demonizing the ego is its own form of fragmentation * The book that stopped me in my tracks & brought me back to this understanding: Return of the Bird Tribes by Ken Carey * The two extremes of the ego spectrum — and why neither one leads us home * The simple prayer I return to whenever fear creeps in or my ego pulls me somewhere that doesn’t feel aligned * How fear moves through the collective & why our signals of calm & soul connection matter just as much * What it looks like when the ego becomes an ally rather than an obstacle The prayer I share in this episode: Ego, I am grateful for your service. AND I need you to remember that you are here to serve my soul. You are here to be in service to the Creator. Not to guide me by fear, but to follow the wisdom of my spirit. A question to sit with after listening: Where in your life has the ego been left in the driver’s seat — and what might it look like to gently redirect it back to its rightful place? If this resonated with you: 💛 Leave a review, it means so much & helps this work reach more people 💛 Share this episode with someone walking a path of healing & integration 💛 DM me on Instagram, I love hearing what lands for you Connect with me: 📱 Instagram: @reclaimwithin [https://www.instagram.com/reclaimwithin] 🌐 Website: reclaimwithin.co [https://reclaimwithin.co/] 📝 Substack: reclaimwithin.substack.com [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/] 📩 Email: reclaimwithin@gmail.com Ready to go deeper? Become a paid subscriber at reclaimwithin.substack.com [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/] to join my monthly live Zoom calls where we gather & work towards Reclaiming Within together. Paid subscribers will also be the first to know when the Building Inner Kingdoms course launches. Within Love, Ash Get full access to Reclaim Within: Remember You are Sacred at reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Ep. 36 - The Great Awakener Is Here: Are You Open Enough to Receive It?

Ep. 36 - My prayer for you is that you never stop being a student of your own becoming. That you stay soft enough to be shaped by Life, & brave enough to let what you thought you knew be undone, again & again & again. In this episode, I’m sitting with something that keeps coming back to me & relates so much to the karmic lessons we are heading into with Uranus in Gemini, something simpler & harder than we might expect… If you feel the calling to be part of the awakening shift happening on this Earth right now, I think the answer lives here: Stay humble. Stay curious. We talk about what happens the moment we feel like we’ve got something figured out… spiritually, emotionally, somatically & why that’s actually the moment we begin to close. We explore the beautiful & sometimes distorted impulse to be in service, what it means to birth something genuinely new, & how the people who trigger us most are often carrying the most honest medicine for us. In this episode we explore: * Why the moment you feel like you’ve “arrived” is actually the moment you begin to close * The subtle distortion that can live inside the impulse to serve * Why openness, not expertise, is the most healing thing we can offer right now * How curiosity & humility are the advanced work, not the beginner work * The teachers we don’t recognize & why the ones who trigger us most are often our greatest teachers to find our unconscious maps * What staying open & staying curious actually looks like in practice A question to sit with after listening: How do we stay open to all the teachers in our lives, especially the ones who don’t arrive looking like teachers? If this resonated with you: 💛 Leave a review — it means the world & helps this work reach more people 💛 Share this episode with someone who is walking a path of healing & service Within Love, Ash 📱 Instagram: @reclaimwithin [https://www.instagram.com/reclaimwithin] 🌐 Website: reclaimwithin.co [https://reclaimwithin.co] 📝 Substack: reclaimwithin.substack.com [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com] 📩 Email: reclaimwithin@gmail.com [reclaimwithin@gmail.com] Ready to go deeper? Become a paid subscriber at reclaimwithin.substack.com [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com] to join my monthly live Zoom calls where we gather & work towards Reclaiming Within together. Paid subscribers will also be the first to know when the Building Inner Kingdoms course launches. Get full access to Reclaim Within: Remember You are Sacred at reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Ep. 35 - Why I Walked Away From Astrology & Why I’m Returning

Ep. 35 - In this episode, I open up about my relationship with astrology, how I found it when I was 13 years old during a huge life shakeup, why I fell so deeply in love with it, how it became my full-time work, why I eventually walked away, & why I am now feeling called to return to it from a very different place inside of myself. I share what I believe astrology actually is: not a belief system, not a fixed identity, & not a tool that was ever meant to box us in or flatten the depth of who we are. To me, astrology is an archetypal language. It is a symbolic language that can meet us at whatever level of consciousness we bring to it. I also speak honestly about what turned me off from astrology for a season, especially the ways I saw it being used through meme culture & pop culture astrology as a reductive, dismissive, or victimizing framework. I share why that felt so disheartening to me, what I had to wrestle with in myself, & what has helped me come back into relationship with astrology now with more humility, reverence, trust, & respect for the mystery. This episode is really about symbolism, consciousness, free will, archetypes, mystery, & what it means to engage something sacred without reducing it. In this episode, I explore: * why the tools meant to help us know ourselves more deeply were never meant to box us in * how astrology first supported me during one of the hardest seasons of my childhood * the journey from private study to full-time professional readings * why I stepped away from astrology for a period of time * why astrology is not a belief system * astrology as an archetypal + symbolic language * the difference between using astrology as a trap vs using it as a mirror * why consciousness matters in how we engage archetypal tools * the chart as a seed, blueprint, & pattern of potential * how free will, agency, embodiment, & consciousness shape how our cosmic blueprint gets lived Key reminder from this conversation Astrology is not here to tell you who you are in a fixed, lifeless way. It is here to help you enter into a deeper relationship with your own symbolic language, your own inner world, & your own unfolding. Sometimes what is calling us back is not asking us to return unchanged, but to return with more of ourselves intact. Ways to go deeper If you feel called to explore this archetypal language through your own cosmic blueprint, I am opening the door to readings again. Booking link: [insert link] I have also partnered with Ignite Your Aura to bring you monthly horoscopes blended with aura exploration. You can sign up for those newsletters here: [insert link] There are some beautiful new offerings coming that weave together astrology, aura, color, & the living language of archetypes. Support the podcast Thank you for being here & for supporting my creative expression. If this episode resonated with you, I would love for you to subscribe, leave a review, or share it with someone who would enjoy this conversation. Within Love, Ash Brouwer [https://substack.com/profile/182050497-ash-brouwer] Booking Link → Book A Reading With Ash [https://cosmic-alchemy.hbportal.co/schedule/62b4921d0816cd063f2a88b9] CONNECT WITH ASH Instagram: @reclaimwithin Substack @reclaimwithin Email: reclaimwithin@gmail.com Get full access to Reclaim Within: Remember You are Sacred at reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Ep. 34 - How to Stay Rooted When Life Asks Everything

Ep. 34 - My prayer for you is that you learn how to stay rooted in yourself when life asks everything of you, and that you build a relationship with your inner Kingdom so strong that even in the storm, you do not lose yourself. In this episode, I share about the last 10 days of being in and out of the ICU with my husband’s father while my husband and I are also in a rebuilding season of life. It was intense, layered, & confronting on every level. And through all of it, I have never been more grateful for this work. This is a real-time reflection on what it actually looks like to live these tools when life gets hard. Not to avoid the storm, but to stay connected to yourself within it. We talk about staying grounded in your body, orienting back to prayer, holding compassion & accountability in relationship. And learning how to stand shoulder to shoulder instead of turning on each other when pressure rises. Because building your inner kingdom does not remove challenge.It changes how you meet it. As Pluto in Aquarius unfolds, we are being asked to grow in our capacity to stay in integrity, hold complexity, and remain connected even when things feel uncertain. If you are at ease in life right now or you are traversing a hard season, this episode is here to remind you to come back to yourself. IN THIS EPISODE: * Staying connected to yourself in high-stress moments * Using somatic tools instead of old coping patterns * Navigating pressure in relationships * The role of prayer and community support * Why this work matters when life gets real CONNECT WITH ASH Instagram: @reclaimwithin Substack @reclaimwithin Email: reclaimwithin@gmail.com Within Love <3 Ash Booking Link → Book A Reading With Ash [https://cosmic-alchemy.hbportal.co/schedule/62b4921d0816cd063f2a88b9] Get full access to Reclaim Within: Remember You are Sacred at reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe [https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]